Are you better off today than you were four years ago? Honestly, I didn’t think Republicans were going to try replaying Ronald Reagan’s famous line, since so much of the G.O.P.’s 2024 strategy depends on a sort of collective amnesia about the last year of Dona... More »
If power was just about office, then Britain’s ethnic minorities would appear to have nothing to worry about. Rishi Sunak sits in Downing Street. Humza Yousaf heads Scotland’s devolved government. When Vaughan Gething takes over as the first minister in Wales,... More »
Here in the north of Gaza, there is virtually no food available. People are resorting to eating animal feed or bird seed to stay alive. For some, there is only grass left to eat. Doctors have been warning for months that the Israeli military’s five-month long ... More »
When Francis Ryan asks “What is the point of Labour?” she is articulating the thoughts of many voters who have waited years for a sea change in the government and now fear that a Labour one under Keir Starmer will simply offer us Tory-lite (What’s the point of... More »
I miss my late husband, Bernie Grant, every day, but was painfully reminded of the challenges he faced as one of the first black MPs by Diane Abbott’s experience (Frank Hester’s ugly words about me are a reminder: all parties, including Labour, must stand agai... More »
There are many good reasons for Rishi Sunak to postpone a general election. All are about reducing his party’s potential loss of seats. There is also an overwhelming reason for calling one now. It is in the national interest.British government needs an act of ... More »
One of the beautiful things about adverts is that each one is a kind of window: into the entire thought process that led to it being produced. The television series Mad Men understood this: although I doubt there was quite so much grief and self-torture behind... More »
Although Vladimir Putin’s landslide victory with 87% of the vote in the Russian election was no surprise, these elections were important both for the Kremlin and for those in opposition to Putin.With voter turnout at 74% – the highest in history – anything les... More »
I was both shocked and delighted when I read that at the Women of the World festival earlier this month, Queen Camilla held up two stones that had been hurled at the windows of Buckingham Palace in May 1914. The stones had been thrown by two women, and each ca... More »
It is impossible to think about Vaughan Gething’s victory in the Welsh Labour leadership election without reference to the recent news about a Tory donor’s vicious racist rant against Westminster’s first Black female MP, Diane Abbott. Gething won the election ... More »
It’s a benefit of Brexit – but only if you’re a manufacturer or distributor of toxic chemicals. For the rest of us, it’s another load we have to carry on behalf of the shysters and corner-cutters who lobbied for the UK to leave the EU.The government insisted o... More »
As 2021 ended, an article in the Guardian by the economist Isabella Weber went viral. Its online spread was lubricated by heresy. Dr Weber doubted interest rate hikes would bring down inflation. Instead, she argued that post-pandemic prices were rising because... More »