The hatred these Conservatives feel for their country isn’t just because of the polls: they also despise the sea change in British politics The prime minister rounds up asylum seekers on the...
Museums have closed and festivals lost funding – but Labour will restore Britain’s creative superpower status A culture change is on the way when this moribund government of the living dead...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/26/tory-cuts-anti-culture-election-night-labour
On a visit to a combined nursery and primary school, I saw how early years provision can really be transformed Panic and a screeching U-turn. The prime minister dismissed claims there were too ...
Compulsory maths and English retakes speak of a system that ignores pupils’ real talents. But hope is on the horizon That time of year approaches when we ritually sacrifice 40% of our 16-year...
At an ambulance dispatch centre in Kent, I saw the scale of the task that lies ahead of Labour to restore the nation’s health This is a sick country, getting sicker. NHS waits will take years...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/17/ambulances-nhs-crisis-kent-labour-health
Keir Starmer should revitalise Sure Start, focus on children’s happiness – and give a crucial boost to further education Our writers and experts name the pledges Labour must include in its ma...
Another slash to benefits is coming, pushing even more people into poverty. Neither Labour nor Conservative voters want it The alarm sounds over and over again. Every organisation concerned wit...
The talk today is whether Lindsay Hoyle will survive. That is so wrong, as is the fact that MPs’ safety fears now cloud our politics A squalid day in parliament . The most important of debate...
The scare-mongering will come to nothing. Britain’s super-wealthy know that moving abroad would be bad for business It’s a done deal – just about. Down at the bookies, you can get 14/1 on...
Both byelections showed people want change. They should also embolden Labour to be braver and stick to its guns over key policies The rout of the Tories gallops on across the country, as yester...
Everyone agrees the state pension system needs reforming – so why is changing it so hard? The age at which people in the UK can access the state pension keeps rising. Economists say it is ine...
Rachel Reeves has ruled out a wealth tax, but she’ll need to raise revenue somehow – and there are still good options available The prime minister’s tax return crept out with the house in...
Even if pared back, the party still has the only real growth policy in town. It should be robust and confident about that “Labour is running scared!” blasts the Telegraph. How did that happ...
The government is deterring young and poor people from voting – but no amount of gerrymandering will save its bacon It may have passed you by that last week was Welcome to Your Vote week, enc...
Why is £28bn of green spending endlessly scrutinised while the Conservatives get a free pass on their new round of painful austerity? Like a hornet in the ear, that £28bn is buzzed into every...
The Senedd’s plan to shift the burden of this levy away from those on lower incomes shows how real levelling up can work It is the very worst of taxes. (Probably – there’s tough competiti...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/30/wales-council-tax-england-real-levelling-up
Many who praise a headteacher for preventing Muslim prayers are oddly sanguine about the number of faith schools in Britain Schools are too often the crucible in which social conflicts are foug...
If that plane full of asylum seekers actually takes off, it is no longer the great distraction his government needs it to be Feuding parties never win, No 10’s flailing political guru, Isaac ...
As the Tories slash primary-care funding, our doctors are doing their best in terrible circumstances. We must resist the idea that they’re to blame Why would they do that? The sheer perversit...
Rishi Sunak denies it: but the government’s own figures tell us how the country’s health has been afflicted by austerity Any government would take fright at the astonishing rise in people o...