The world of today looks bad, but take hope: we’ve been here before and got through it – and we will again | Martin Kettle ⊖
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As I write my last regular column for the Guardian, my thoughts turn to the lessons and hope we can take from history
From Greenland’s icy mountains, from India’s coral strand, as the old hymn has it,…
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A single act of kindness reminded me that, despite so much evidence to the contrary, the better angels of our nature are not necessarily doomed
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In the 21st-century imbalance of power, Europe and Nato have neither the arms nor the wealth to impel Russia or the US to take its peace settlement seriously
The failure of this week’s peace talks bet…
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The chancellor’s statement will be remembered for the many taxes it raised, rather than the big one – income tax – it did not
Rachel Reeves’s chancellorship was already balanced on a knife-edge, even …
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With this level of unpopularity, the question of the PM’s future may seem simple. But what comes next could be nastily complicated
Be absolutely clear. Keir Starmer is in very deep trouble indeed. Per…
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The battles she fought as prime minister in the 1980s belong to the past. Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems
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Less than a week after his state visit, the president launched a surprise attack on the UK – and sent a clear signal about US power
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The choice for governments around the world is clear: engage, or fall beneath the US president’s wheel. For now, Britain must do the former
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Yes, there were some serious problems for Labour this week, but overblown claims in the press undermine what remains of our political debate
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The arts and politics are bound to mix, but they are not the same thing. In the cold war, Soviet artists performed in the west. Should the Russian soprano, who has condemned the Ukraine invasion, be …