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Rachel Sylvester
Economic with the truth: the mis-selling of the budget
Sun 30 Nov 2025
Emma Haslett
High-end property market enjoys post-budget boost
Fri 28 Nov 2025
Tim Leunig
Reeves’s budget is from deep within Labour’s DNA
Fri 28 Nov 2025
Catherine Neilan
More MEPs investigated over Russian bribes
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Ben Zaranko
Minor forecasts shouldn’t make the weather for Reeves
Sat 22 Nov 2025
Catherine Neilan
After the week No 10 lost control, warning that chaos is ‘probably fatal’ for Starmer
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Catherine Neilan
Labour is ‘totally flapping’, say ministers after budget swerve
Fri 14 Nov 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Briefings against the PM are more cock-up than conspiracy
Wed 12 Nov 2025
The Observer leader
The budget should put the public first
Sat 8 Nov 2025
Andrew Rawnsley
The tide may soon turn for Rachel Reeves
Tue 4 Nov 2025
Rachael Healy
Polanski’s social media strategy woos the young
Sun 2 Nov 2025
James Tapper
Tory deportation policy could lose them loyal voters
Sun 2 Nov 2025
Catherine Neilan
Doge-style cost-cutting units ‘haven’t found any waste’
Sun 26 Oct 2025
Catherine Neilan
Two elections, two stories – and neither good for Labour
Sun 26 Oct 2025
Catherine Neilan
Plaid Cymru topples Labour in historic byelection
Fri 24 Oct 2025
Catherine Neilan
‘Jail is inevitable’ for politician awaiting bribery sentence
Thu 23 Oct 2025
Catherine Neilan
‘They lost their bottle’: why China spy case never reached courts
Sun 19 Oct 2025
John Caudwell
Britain deserves better than net zero gamesmanship
Thu 16 Oct 2025
Catherine Neilan
First crypto donation to major UK party
Sat 11 Oct 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Kemi who? Time is running out for Badenoch
Sun 5 Oct 2025
Catherine Neilan
‘Nine-jobs Nigel’: Farage denies not declaring extra earnings
Sat 4 Oct 2025
Jon Ungoed-Thomas
Reform councils axing net zero targets
Fri 3 Oct 2025
Andrew Rawnsley
Starmer played the patriot card – but in a hand with no aces
Tue 30 Sept 2025
The future of the British left
8 mins • S1, E1201
Rachel Sylvester
The PM’s future rests in the chancellor’s hands
Mon 29 Sept 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Starmer to unveil ‘patriotic’ plan for next generation of new towns
Sun 28 Sept 2025
Rachel Sylvester
‘We’ve got to steady our nerves’
Sun 28 Sept 2025
Donald Macintyre
The left’s expensive, secret power couple
Thu 25 Sept 2025
Ben Zaranko
Remember, remember Liz Truss this November
Wed 24 Sept 2025
James Tapper
Zarah Sultana calls in lawyers as row deepens with Jeremy Corbyn over new party
Sun 21 Sept 2025
John Simpson
Fears grow over far right’s embrace of crypto
Sun 21 Sept 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Starmer ready to seize initiative in race against time to save leadership
Sun 21 Sept 2025
Catherine Neilan
Tories are ‘over’, says MP Kruger as he defects to Reform
Mon 15 Sept 2025
Rachel Wolf
Nigel Farage is wary of the far right, and with good reason
Sun 14 Sept 2025
Catherine Neilan
Troubled Starmer ‘reeks of defeat’ after Mandelson fiasco
Sun 14 Sept 2025
Catherine Neilan
Mandelson saga casts shadow over Trump’s UK trip
Sun 14 Sept 2025
Catherine Neilan
Calls for Peter Mandelson to face inquiry over meeting with government minister
Sat 13 Sept 2025
Catherine Neilan
Reform conference sponsors may have breached company law
Thu 11 Sept 2025
Lily Isaacs
Charlie Kirk built a career on political outrage – but outrage must not lead to violence
Thu 11 Sept 2025
Catherine Neilan
Eccles ‘tactical bellwether’ in 2029 fight against Reform
Thu 11 Sept 2025
Jon Ungoed-Thomas
My home in Clacton is my partner’s, says Farage
Mon 8 Sept 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Starmer’s plan to house asylum seekers on MoD land
Sun 7 Sept 2025
Catherine Neilan
Covid jab may have caused royal cancers, says Reform speaker
Sun 7 Sept 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Keir Starmer ushers in a new cabinet of trusted ‘fixers and doers’
Sun 7 Sept 2025
Rachel Sylvester
‘Keironomics’ marks start of Whitehall reshaping of state
Sat 6 Sept 2025
Steve Bloomfield
Since when did the Foreign Office become a demotion?
Sat 6 Sept 2025
Rachel Sylvester
PM enlists Whitehall fixer and top economist to bolster team
Sat 30 Aug 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Donors desert Starmer over first-year failures
Sat 30 Aug 2025
Catherine Neilan
There’s gold in bullion adverts for fill-your-boots Farage
Sun 24 Aug 2025
Catherine Neilan
The Vance guard: the new right being cooked up in the Cotswolds
Sun 17 Aug 2025
Rachel Sylvester
I’m following the ‘red Welsh way’, not Keir Starmer
Fri 8 Aug 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Starmer orders move towards digital ID system
Sun 3 Aug 2025
Andrew Rawnsley
Nigel Farage can’t stop playing dangerous games
Sun 27 Jul 2025
John Simpson
Immigration now trumps economy for UK voters
Sun 27 Jul 2025
Catherine Neilan
Reeves is missing the key people to find the missing billions
Fri 25 Jul 2025
Catherine Neilan
Where can Rachel Reeves raise tax?
Sun 13 Jul 2025
Stephen Armstrong
Under fire and lacking leadership, BBC staff’s default is: ‘Avoid Gaza’
Sat 12 Jul 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Margaret Hodge: ‘Stopping breast screening at 70 is crazy’
Sat 12 Jul 2025
Catherine Neilan
Ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe cleared by parliamentary watchdog
Fri 11 Jul 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Ministers step in to save Teach First
Fri 11 Jul 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Reeves’ tears: a key image that defines this moment
Sun 6 Jul 2025
Catherine Neilan
Why the Co-op party is Labour’s best shot at stopping Reform’s rise
Sat 5 Jul 2025
Will Hutton
The only way out for Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves is to show sheer audacity
Thu 3 Jul 2025
Andrew Rawnsley
U-turn on welfare gives backbenchers a taste of the PM’s blood
Sun 29 Jun 2025
Jo Swinson
Jo Swinson’s search for a new economics
Sun 29 Jun 2025
Chris Coghlan
'My priest told me my vote was complicity in murder’
Sun 29 Jun 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Starmer’s deep regret for ‘island of strangers’ speech
Sat 28 Jun 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Supermarkets to get healthy eating targets under government’s obesity plan
Sat 28 Jun 2025
Rachel Sylvester
A year into office, Keir Starmer is ready for a new approach
Sat 28 Jun 2025
Rachel Sylvester
The NHS needs to innovate to survive, says Ara Darzi
Fri 27 Jun 2025
Tom Baldwin
The private trials of Keir Starmer
Fri 27 Jun 2025
Catherine Neilan
King’s speech set to be delayed as Labour try to push legislation through the Lords
Thu 26 Jun 2025
Catherine Neilan
150 Labour MPs ready to rebel against welfare reforms
Sat 21 Jun 2025
Steve Bloomfield
No ordinary war: we have entered the age of impunity
Sun 15 Jun 2025
Deborah Haynes
How Britain can respond to Russian attack
Tue 10 Jun 2025
Philippe Sands
Philippe Sands: ‘The Chagossians must have right of return’
Sat 31 May 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Labour heads for a summer of discontent
Sun 25 May 2025
Catherine Neilan
How well-funded activists tried to thwart Chagos deal
Sun 25 May 2025
Sam Freedman
How the Conservatives became irrelevant
Thu 22 May 2025
Erica Wagner
What the Brooklyn Bridge crash says about Trump’s America
Thu 22 May 2025
Valentine Low
The odd couple: Keir and the King
Thu 22 May 2025
Sam Freedman
The party’s over for the Tories
Wed 21 May 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Welfare shake-up is not to save cash, it’s a ‘moral mission’, insists Kendall
Mon 19 May 2025
Catherine Neilan
Getting the band back together: Starmer’s new European deal
Sun 18 May 2025
Matthew Bishop
US trade deal with UK suggests special relationship is alive and well
Mon 12 May 2025
Catherine Neilan
Nick Thomas-Symonds, the Welshman with the PM’s ear
Mon 12 May 2025
Susie Orbach
The US presidents’ wives are disobliging. I think I hear some excitement
Mon 12 May 2025
Edward Helmore
Melania Trump, the vanishing first lady
Mon 12 May 2025
William Keegan
The chancellor needs to remember what the ‘E’ in VE Day stands for
Sun 11 May 2025
Catherine Neilan
Starmer builds on ‘coalition of willing’ to boost Europe links
Sun 11 May 2025
Rachel Sylvester
The UK is paying the price for world’s most expensive visas
Sun 11 May 2025
Philip Collins
Signed off sick: the parts of Britain that are not working
Wed 7 May 2025
Catherine Neilan
Cost of assisted dying may have been underestimated
Sun 4 May 2025
Catherine Neilan
Labour plots immigration blitz after Reform success at polls
Sun 4 May 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Nigel Farage is now wooing gen X women
Sun 4 May 2025
Rachel Sylvester
The robots are entering No 10
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Rachel Cooke
Maurice Glasman: Labour’s Trump card
Fri 25 Apr 2025
Peer Review: methodology
Wed 20 Nov 2024
Catherine Neilan
The Lords’ work: what is Tortoise’s Peer Review?
Wed 20 Nov 2024
