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Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian

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This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet?

My guess is you keep across the news. You know Andy Mountbatten-Windsor has just had the worst birthday ever; that tall hotels in Dubai don’t make...

06.03.2026 10

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Aditya Chakrabortty

Behold the incredible shrinking Starmer: the PM who promises more while giving less

12.02.2026 70

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The Green surge shows UK politics has reached a turning point – and it has surprisingly little to do with Zack Polanski

05.02.2026 90

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The Minneapolis revolt tells us this: even in Trump’s America, the people have power too

29.01.2026 80

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What happens when the taps run dry? England is about to find out

22.01.2026 100

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Say what you will about Trump, but unlike Starmer he knows his own power – and how to use it

16.01.2026 50

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Don’t dignify Trump with talk of a ‘new world order’ – there’s nothing new or ordered about this chaos

08.01.2026 70

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Want to understand the sickness of Britain today? Look no further – a novel explained it all 20 years ago

18.12.2025 150

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What will be the cost of Keir Starmer’s new medicines deal with Donald Trump? British lives

11.12.2025 150

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Aditya Chakrabortty

The most misleading thing about Rachel Reeves’s budget? Who it was really for

02.12.2025 20

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A budget to save Britain’s finances? More like Operation Save Our Skins

27.11.2025 8

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Aditya Chakrabortty

What does the left want? A wealth tax. What will that accomplish? Very little

20.11.2025 10

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Aditya Chakrabortty

The real Reform voters have been revealed – it’s a slapdash coalition Farage will struggle to hold together

13.11.2025 20

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Aditya Chakrabortty

The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right

05.11.2025 10

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Aditya Chakrabortty

Ministers can raise taxes if they come out fighting. But no one in this cowardly Labour government seems able

30.10.2025 20

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The crimewave sweeping Britain? Illegal houses in multiple occupation

24.10.2025 10

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Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian view on EU accession for Ukraine: Orbán must not be allowed to call the tune

15.10.2025 10

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Aditya Chakrabortty

A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal

15.10.2025 10

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Worried about rising bills and getting by? Keir Starmer has the answer: try chewing a flag!

09.10.2025 10

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Aditya Chakrabortty

Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet?

02.10.2025 10

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Special relationship? There can be no such thing with a snake like Trump

25.09.2025 8

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It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage

18.09.2025 10

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Aditya Chakrabortty

Call it Thatcher’s timebomb: the great council housing selloff of 2024, a crisis hidden in plain sight

13.02.2025 10

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Aditya Chakrabortty

Labour’s plan for ‘growth’ won’t take off, but it will leave ordinary people behind

29.01.2025 6

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

16.01.2025 10

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Aditya Chakrabortty