It is hard to make the case for a 10-year plan in our political culture of constant campaigning frenzy – but the new PM will try
It all sounded feasible but improbable. A few days after Labour’s disa…
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Andy Burnham is about to have a crash course in hardcore geopolitics | Rafael Behr ⊖⊖
The likely next prime minister would rather be in Warrington than Washington, but foreign policy will dominate his agenda more than he thinks
If Andy Burnham is lucky, he will get some time to adjust …
33 days ago
Keir Starmer couldn’t beat the curse of Brexit – a politics poisoned by nationalism | Rafael Behr ⊖⊖
The outgoing prime minister’s efforts to mobilise a healthier kind of patriotism fell flat. Andy Burnham may stand a better chance
Britain is not ungovernable, but the chalice of high office has been …
Reader Q&A: ask Rafael Behr your questions now ⊕
It’s 10 years since Brexit – and it’s also another one of those weeks in British politics … Guardian columnist Rafael Behr will be here at 5pm to answer your questions about Burnham, Starmer, Brexit …
47 days ago
Putin and Trump are both trapped in losing battles against reality | Rafael Behr ⊖⊖
The Ukraine and Iran wars are very different, but a common authoritarian delusion unites the men who started them
A strongman president, self-styled redeemer of national glory, is trapped in a conflic…
54 days ago
Andy Burnham offers Labour a refreshing new voice to reach lost voters – but with what message? | Rafael Behr ⊕
It will take more than blokeish affability to reach across the Brexit faultline that scars British politics
Andy Burnham’s stint as health secretary in the final year of Gordon Brown’s government was …
68 days ago
The balance of global power is shifting fast, but Britain is stuck in the same old Brexit rut | Rafael Behr ⊖⊖
Without a reckoning about the epic strategic error of leaving the EU, there is no serious debate about the country’s future place in the world
While the Labour party was in meltdown last week, Donald …
75 days ago
Labour needs a battle of ideas now, not a scramble to snatch the keys to No 10 | Rafael Behr ⊖⊖
Removing Starmer solves the problem of an unpopular leader, but without a coherent alternative agenda his successor won’t fare much better
Labour has spent much of the past year paralysed by competing…
87 days ago
‘An epidemic’: is antisemitism out of control in the UK? - The Latest ⊖
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The stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green, north-west London, has become the latest in a series of antisemitic attacks. So is rising antisemitism now a national emergency? And is more security …
89 days ago
In the coming AI future, Britain must not end up at the mercy of US tech giants | Rafael Behr ⊖
Trump is volatile, capricious and unreasonable – but he belongs to the old world of analogue power. What comes next will be harder to manage
Donald Trump is not impressed by soft power. He respects ha…