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Politics past

July 2024

  • Michael Heseltine, former Conservative deputy leader, in Liverpool.

    Much of Michael Heseltine’s advice to Angela Rayner is good, but he is wrong about local councils

  • Andrew Rawnsley

    Why Labour wants to hang the Tory legacy around the Conservatives’ necks for years

    Andrew Rawnsley
  • Polly Toynbee

    Labour will rightly be judged by how it fixes our problems. But never forget who left the UK in such a rotten state

    Polly Toynbee
  • Tony Blair waving and Cherie pointing

    Tony Blair’s new dawn of 1997 offers landslide lessons for Keir Starmer

  • The Guardian view on Frank Cottrell-Boyce as children’s laureate: a timely champion

  • From Baldwin to Blair and more: the biggest landslides in British election history

June 2024

  • Ed Davey sits in chair in TV studio with BBC logo in background

    Lib Dems have regained trust of voters after coalition years, says Ed Davey

    Leader tells BBC he was ‘not proud’ of every decision he took in government from 2010 to 2015 and had made sure his party listened to voters again
  • A police officer pulls a bloodied miners by the shirt surrounded by other officers

    Strike: An Uncivil War review – brutal confrontation on the miners’ strike picket lines

    Former miners and police officers recall Orgreave, one of the nastiest events in postwar British history, in Daniel Gordon’s forthright documentary
  • Patrick Duffy seated in an armchair with a small dog sitting alongside, which looks to be a black West Highland terrier

    ‘I’m blessed. I’m still here’: ex-MP Patrick Duffy, 103, publishes memoirs

    Oldest surviving MP can clearly recall the 1926 general strike, part of his long and immensely eventful life

May 2024

  • Rishi Sunak walks up a dockyard ramp wearing a buoyancy aid.

    The Observer view on the Tories: A chance to pass judgment on 14 years of misrule

  • Big Ben and Houses of Parliament in London

    Can Labour bring Britain the major reset we need?

  • Richard Rosser was born into a family of rail enthusiasts: they chose not to own a car, preferring rail travel.

    Lord Rosser obituary

  • A woman holds a bouquet of flowers in the campaign colours as families affected by the infected blood scandal hear the findings of the six-year inquiry.

    Politicians should ‘hang heads in shame’ over UK infected blood scandal, victims say

  • Lord Stunell obituary

  • The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The age of perpetual crisis – how the 2010s disrupted everything but resolved nothing – podcast

  • The IPP scandal
    David Blunkett’s mea culpa on indefinite sentences won’t wash

April 2024

  • Margaret Morris

    Other lives
    Margaret Morris obituary

  • Rishi Sunak drinking from a mug with a union flag design

    A mug’s game: the politics of Rishi Sunak’s crockery choices

  • A member of staff from Sotheby's poses for the media with a portrait of the iconic former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, painted by Graham Sutherland in 1954, at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England.

    Study for portrait Winston Churchill disliked goes on show at his old home

  • Harold Wilson at a press conference in 1974.

    Harold Wilson confessed to secret ‘love match’ while PM, former aide reveals

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