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Martin Kettle

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45 days ago

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,…

63 days ago

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

Perhaps you are searching for reasons to be cheerful at …

3 months ago

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 …

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…

4 months ago

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

You have to be approaching your mid-50s …

5 months ago

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

Trying to pin down the real Donald Trump is a mug’s game. Doubtless,…

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

Has any visiting leader ever seen so little of Britain or th…

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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Art and politics are not the same thing – but the Anna Netrebko case shows what happens when they collide | Martin Kettle

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 …

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