Politics past

Maureen Colquhoun obituary
Crusading Labour politician who was the first openly gay MP
Julia Langdon
08, Feb, 2021 @5:45 PM

Labour doesn’t need to wave flags to be patriotic | Letters
Letters: Guardian readers respond to leaked details of Labour’s plan to win back voters
Letters
04, Feb, 2021 @6:36 PM

The potteries of Stoke need a recovery plan | Letters
Letters: It is not too late to transform the ‘five towns’, writes Joan Walley, former MP for Stoke-on-Trent North, while Richard Ross describes how Thatcher’s deindustrialisation of Britain saw the destruction of the pottery industry
Letters
20, Jan, 2021 @5:02 PM

Winter memories offer cold comfort | Brief letters
Brief letters: The news cycle | Horse-mounting steps | Quakers | Winter 1963
Letters
20, Jan, 2021 @5:00 PM

Can Joe Biden make America great again?
His skills as a fixer are finely honed – but they cannot restore a pre-Trump normality. As president, Biden’s private self, shadowed by loss, must come into its own
Fintan O’Toole
16, Jan, 2021 @9:00 AM

Letter: Margaret Tebbit obituary
Rodney Brooke writes: ‘As a wheelchair user, Margaret Tebbit became a vigorous campaigner to secure access for disabled people’
Rodney Brooke
12, Jan, 2021 @2:52 PM

Boris Johnson decried purchase of Churchill's private papers
His criticism in 1995 chimed with No 10 misgivings over ownership of PM records, National Archives show
Owen Bowcott and Caroline Davies
30, Dec, 2020 @12:01 AM

Mugabe's love of cricket and Thatcher's 70th: stories revealed in National Archives papers
Proposed MCC membership for Mugabe and Thatcher’s birthday party plans among stories kept under wraps – until now
Caroline Davies and Owen Bowcott
30, Dec, 2020 @12:01 AM

'If anyone had said our mining town would go Tory, I'd have thought they were mad'
Many former miners moved into the public sector after the pits closed. A year after the collapse of the ‘red wall’, Alison Benjamin revisited Nottinghamshire
Alison Benjamin
28, Dec, 2020 @8:30 AM

Margaret Tebbit obituary
Nurse and wife of the Conservative minister Norman Tebbit who was seriously injured in the Brighton Grand hotel bombing in 1984
Julia Langdon
23, Dec, 2020 @6:00 PM

Should Labour try to win back ‘red wall’ voters? | Letters
Letters: Steve Smart warns Labour against simply trying to win back its traditional supporters in the old heartlands, Roy Boffy says these voters will be lost for ever unless the party seriously reappraises its parlous position, and Ron Glatter thinks the ‘northern problem’ is in danger of being overstated. Plus Derrick Cameron on Corbyn as a leader and Starmer as a manager
Letters
16, Dec, 2020 @6:15 PM

The Guardian view on a progressive alliance: divided they fall | Editorial
Editorial: Labour should show it could work with like-minded parties by committing to proportional representation
Editorial
13, Dec, 2020 @6:30 PM
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