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Martin Kettle

Martin Kettle is a Guardian associate editor and columnist

March 2024

  • An illustration of the red dispatch box against a blue background. The handle has been replaced with a pair of scissors and a hand.

    Jeremy Hunt gave us a hit-and-run budget. But unlike cornered chancellors past, he showed no shame

    Martin Kettle
    The Tories can see the writing on the wall – so they are intent on wrecking things for an incoming Labour government, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

February 2024

  • Rochdale, Greater Manchester, the day after the Labour party withdrew support for Azhar Ali.

    A lesson and a wake-up call from Rochdale: Labour has become too complacent about its big poll lead

    Martin Kettle
  • FILE - King Charles III, front right, Camilla, the Queen Consort, Prince Harry and Prince William watch as the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II is placed into the hearse following the state funeral service in Westminster Abbey in central London Monday Sept. 19, 2022. King Charles III has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and has begun treatment, Buckingham Palace says on Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, Pool, File)

    In sickness or health, a new path will be needed for the British monarchy and the nation

    Martin Kettle

January 2024

  • A group of protesters pictured at night, holding red signs bearing the words 'Stop DUP sellout'. One protester also holds a Union Jack. Another man in the foreground holds a large placard that reads: 'Seven tests, equal citizenship, no sea border, no DUP sellout, nothing less will do!'

    After a historic deal in Northern Ireland, what next? Old political battles on a reshaped field

    Martin Kettle
  • FILE PHOTO: British PM Sunak attends a press conference in Downing Street<br>FILE PHOTO: Prime minister, Rishi Sunak speaks during a press conference in Downing Street in London, after he saw the Safety of Rwanda Bill pass its third reading in the House of Commons by a majority of 44 on Wednesday evening. Picture date: Thursday January 18, 2024. Stefan Rousseau/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

    The House of Lords is very flawed. But if it picks apart Sunak’s Rwanda bill, that’s its job and it deserves support

    Martin Kettle

December 2023

  • Nathalie Lees WEB illo, Martin Kettle, 28.12

    How should Keir Starmer take on 2024? By looking back a century to Labour’s first government

    Martin Kettle
    Ramsay MacDonald’s short-lived victory holds three key lessons, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
  • PMQs

    Britain is a country that looks to its parliament. And the truth is, parliament is failing us

    Martin Kettle
    Of course faith in MPs is in decline: crises abound, and yet too many are incompetent, badly behaved and have the wrong priorities, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

    • Hansel and Gretel review – vivacious staging of Humperdinck’s benign fairytale

    • Migration is dominating Sunak’s premiership – but the pressure on Starmer may be even greater

      Martin Kettle

    • Lazy and fraudulent: we saw the true Johnson at the Covid inquiry – and why his like must never have power again

      Martin Kettle

November 2023

  • Geert Wilders celebrates his PVV party's election success in The Hague, the Netherlands, on 23 November 2023.

    Europe has entered a new age of anxiety – and it’s dragging Britain along too

    Martin Kettle
  • Hologram of late opera singer Maria Callas performs in concert in Mexico<br>epa07497909 A hologram of late opera singer Maria Callas performs during a concert at the National Auditorium of Mexico City in Mexico City, Mexico, 10 April 2019. Attendees were able to enjoy the art of Maria Callas (1923-1977) with a live orchestra through the use of state-of-the-art technology that shows the artist, who in life appeared in Mexico for the first time in 1950, through the use of a hologram that sings, moves and interacts. EPA/JOSE MENDEZ

    Enduring greatness: five essential Maria Callas recordings on her centenary

  • Teatro di San Carlo in Naples.

    Book of the day
    Mozart in Italy by Jane Glover review – the making of a master

  • A large, colourful mural with the face of a young boy on a yellow and red background, with the words 'Tal Goldstein, 9 years old' and 'Come home'. Next to it is another mural bearing the words 'Let there be light'.

    The Gaza truce is a ray of hope in the darkness. Both sides must remember that

    Martin Kettle

  • The Rwanda plan is dead in the real world, but will live on in the fantasyland of Tory politics

    Martin Kettle

  • Maybe Sunak does have a grand plan. But that king’s speech looked more like an admission of failure

    Martin Kettle

  • The Covid inquiry has exposed more than just a few bad apples – the whole system is rotten

    Martin Kettle

October 2023

  • Uncomplicated delight … Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal festival hall

    Philharmonia/Bancroft review – fearless and fiery Copland is a dark heart of US programme

    Part of the London-based orchestra’s season of American music, the programme featured Copland, Caroline Shaw and Samuel Barber’s violin concerto, brilliantly played by Renaud Capuçon
  • The MP for Wellingborough Peter Bone walking in the street

    Sunak’s shambolic government is achieving nothing. Must Britain really wait 15 months to throw it out?

    Martin Kettle
    Peter Bone’s suspension is likely to mean another lost Tory seat and a delay to the election we need sooner rather than later, writes Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
  • Britten Sinfonia and Elizabeth Watts at Milton Court, London.

    Britten Sinfonia/Elizabeth Watts review – perfectly articulated songs of extraordinary power and delicacy

    Soprano Watts captured the spirituality of Finzi’s Dies Natalis while a tribute to Afghan poet Nadia Anjuman was sung with overwhelming commitment alongside relishingly played new and old string music
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