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Aditya Chakrabortty

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Liz Truss is long gone from Downing Street – but zombie economics lives on

Liz Truss is long gone from Downing Street – but zombie economics lives on
16.01.2025 30

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Aditya Chakrabortty

All Starmer’s failings play into the hands of Farage – the prime minister is the gift that keeps on giving

While the editor of this hallowed section and I do not always agree, he has conceded that it’s almost Christmas – which is all the excuse I need...

19.12.2024 60

The Guardian

Aditya Chakrabortty

Chronic pain and ravaged mental health: this is the brutal reality of Britain’s new working class

If journalists visit Mansfield at all these days, they come for one thing: the cliches. They want the market town where 70% backed Brexit, the...

22.11.2024 30

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Aditya Chakrabortty

Ella Baron on Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election – cartoon

06.11.2024 4

The Guardian

Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian view on fixing the Mental Health Act: an overdue return to dignity

The 1983 Mental Health Act provides for some extraordinarily coercive powers. A person with acute mental illness can be detained without their...

06.11.2024 4

The Guardian

Aditya Chakrabortty

Why did voters abandon Kamala Harris? Because they feel trapped – and Trump offered a way out

Since we’ll hear a lot, again, about “populism”, let’s remember, again, that 19th-century US populism had a healthy strain of leftwing...

06.11.2024 9

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Aditya Chakrabortty

This is the future for Kamala Harris: unless she solves this economic mystery, Trump wins

The defining question in US politics was asked 44 years ago this month. One week before the 1980 presidential election, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy...

10.10.2024 100

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Aditya Chakrabortty

Britain wants spending and a better NHS, not this obsession with growth. That’s why there’s big trouble ahead

To grasp the real threat to Keir Starmer, ignore the chat about freebie specs or Sue Gray. Tune out the now shuttered party conference, with its...

26.09.2024 100

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Aditya Chakrabortty

Two tribes are at war for the Tory leadership. How to choose? Let me help

Reams of commentary will be written about the battle for the Tory leadership, because newspaper pundits confuse blowing hard on cold ashes with...

12.09.2024 70

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Aditya Chakrabortty

If Starmer and Reeves think they have a foolproof strategy – wait until winter comes

When writing profiles on Rachel Reeves, eight out of 10 journalists like to record her past as a chess champion, largely as a pretext for chuckling...

30.08.2024 20

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Aditya Chakrabortty

The cynical spectre of Osbornomics is haunting the Labour party

A spectre is haunting Rachel Reeves. It has the tonsure of an abbot and a jawline kept taut by intermittent fasting, but any trace of asceticism is...

01.08.2024 90

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Aditya Chakrabortty

It was a landslide election but this much is clear: neither Labour nor the Tories stand on solid ground

Don’t forget that the word landslide has another meaning, freighted with danger. Soil comes loose and the ground fails. Solid land turns...

11.07.2024 80

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Aditya Chakrabortty