Harold Macmillan
Recollections may vary, but some events are unforgettable | Letters
Letters: Readers on their ability to recall political and historic moments from decades ago
16, Jan, 2023 @5:36 PM
Secret of the Queen’s soft power – across seven decades and 15 prime ministers
Elizabeth II got on well with PMs of widely differing politics and backgrounds and played a key role in the background of British politics
Gaby Hinsliff
10, Sep, 2022 @4:40 PM
Wonder who Liz Truss will reward with a job or punish with exile? History can tell us | Tim Bale
If she becomes Tory leader she will have to weigh up whether voters are expecting a complete clear-out or more of the same
Tim Bale
21, Aug, 2022 @6:00 AM
This is not the 1970s. Tory pledges to cut taxes are absurd
Sunak and Truss have no grasp of how low personal taxation is now – or how much a battered Britain needs public spending
William Keegan
21, Aug, 2022 @6:00 AM
Suez taught us our future lay in Europe. So will Brexit
Britain’s two great self-inflicted crises of the postwar era point to a conclusion that voters may soon rediscover for themselves
William Keegan
17, Oct, 2021 @6:00 AM
A cavalier Tory leader and a botched pandemic response? It must be 1957 | Andy Beckett
Then, as now, a government responsible for a disaster tried to change the narrative. We shouldn’t let history repeat itself, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
Andy Beckett
01, May, 2020 @7:00 AM
The Profumo affair … seen, at last, through the female gaze
Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies were dismissed as call girls in the 60s. A TV series now shows them as complex, vulnerable young women
Sarah Hughes
29, Dec, 2019 @6:10 AM
Adapt or die: how the Conservative party keeps power
The party has always evolved to try to cling on to power. But what may voters be getting this time?
Andrew Gamble
03, Nov, 2019 @8:41 AM
Winston Churchill ‘shocked’ by Downing Street restoration plan
‘The Ark did not take so long,’ PM wrote of repair work that overran budget and schedule
Caroline Davies
17, Jul, 2019 @11:01 PM
Queen's message to the moon on show to mark 50 years since Apollo 11
National Archive documents reveal Buckingham Palace thought messages ‘a gimmick’
Caroline Davies
15, Jul, 2019 @9:00 AM
Love, hate … indifference: is US-UK relationship still special?
From Winston Churchill to Donald Trump’s state visit in June, the history of transatlantic ties has hinged on personalities as much as politics
Simon Tisdall
28, Apr, 2019 @8:00 AM
Hugh Gaitskell widow criticised Harold Macmillan in letter
Grieving Dora Gaitskell accused Tory PM of point-scoring on day of Labour leader’s memorial
Anushka Asthana Political editor
01, Feb, 2018 @3:50 PM
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