Aditya Chakrabortty

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...

The US president’s grotesque theatrics on the world stage are an opportunistic distraction from his falling domestic ratingsOf all the commandments for living under Donald Trump, the first is alway...

The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living through nowAn Englishman drives into a new town and c...

More than £3bn that could have been used for UK patients will go to big pharma for its branded products – money for care siphoned off for profitOf Arthur Scargill it was said that he began each day...

Labour backbenchers have been cheering it as a win for the most vulnerable in society. In fact it was aimed at the bond marketsThe charge is a grave one: that Rachel Reeves has just lied to Britons...

Only 20% of tax rises will go towards making people better off. The vast majority will be spent meeting Labour’s fiscal rules and paying for U-turnsImagine it: you are the chancellor of a governmen...