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Isabel Hardman

The Guardian

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Grooming, Shipman, Chilcot: for all the post-inquiry ‘never agains’, the default is inaction

Grooming, Shipman, Chilcot: for all the post-inquiry ‘never agains’, the default is inaction
12.01.2025 30

The Guardian

Isabel Hardman

Start the rebuilding work, Keir Starmer, and show us you’re different to the last bunch of cowboys

Start the rebuilding work, Keir Starmer, and show us you’re different to the last bunch of cowboys

Is this really going to be the year that the government “gets things done”? Keir Starmer is branding it as a “year of rebuilding”, returning...

05.01.2025 6

The Guardian

Isabel Hardman

With a new year ahead there’s no better time for Keir Starmer to start playing good cop

Who is dreading the new year more: Keir Starmer or Rachel Reeves? Most people look forward to the turn of the year as a chance that better things...

29.12.2024 10

The Guardian

Isabel Hardman

Tory rivals are playing nice so far but like a family Christmas old scores are bound to surface

Is the Tory leadership contest about to get interesting? That question contains the assumption that you’ve not actually spent all summer glued to...

25.08.2024 5

The Guardian

Isabel Hardman

Labour is fast discovering that Britain needs more than a Band-Aid to restore it to health

When Keir Starmer was just the lowly leader of the opposition, he made one of his themes “sticking-plaster politics”. It was a critique of the...

18.08.2024 10

The Guardian

Isabel Hardman