Aditya Chakrabortty

Tribalism has not faded over the past decade. Instead, new research reveals our politics has become ever-more polarised and fractiousOn 23 June 2016, the British voter changed. Before that day, the...

Brutal past experience has taught us that a cost of living crisis doesn’t affect us all the same, because we don’t all go into it with the same income or wealthPerhaps the most celebrated writer on...

The news that healthy life expectancy is in decline in Britain exposes a serious truth about the state we’re inMy guess is you keep across the news. You know Andy Mountbatten-Windsor has just had t...

It is not just this doomed government but the Labour party itself that is disappearing before our very eyesWhen he does go, what will the political death certificate give as the true cause of Keir ...

At a party event in a school hall in Lewisham, people told me how disillusionment with Labour has led to this moment“How many?”On the end of the phone is a nice press officer for the Greens, head f...

After months of community resistance, the president backed down. Leadership from below succeeded when politics as usual failedFor most politicians and journalists, the answer to nearly every questi...

It’s not just Tunbridge Wells – a country famous around the world for its rain is in danger of self-imposed droughtYou get up and go to the loo, only to find the flush doesn’t work. You try the sho...

The right is unafraid to show its might on the world stage – meanwhile the prime minister is tinkering with potholes. That just about sums up the centre-leftLast weekend, as the world wondered whet...