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Ian Paisley: from turbulent priest to right honourable statesman

The late Simon Hoggart, Ulster reporter in the 70s, watched Paisley evolve from stroppy Savonarola to admired statesman

Simon Hoggart

12, Sep, 2014 @7:01 PM

Guardian Weekly year in review 2013: UK embraces pomp, circumstance and the occasional success

Britons said a mixed farewell to Thatcher, waved flags for a royal birth and resurrected the idea of leaving the EU

Simon Hoggart

19, Dec, 2013 @12:01 AM

Simon Hoggart's week: Ukip Crazy Gang terrifies despairing Tories

Voters may see Ukip as one amusing boozer and a few loonies, but the party could cause Tory panic in the Euro elections

Simon Hoggart

07, Dec, 2013 @12:01 AM

George Osborne blown off course

Simon Hoggart: Ed Balls sounded like King Lear, raging against the storm that was blowing outside

Simon Hoggart

05, Dec, 2013 @6:27 PM

The coalition's spare Cameron

With his bald patch and new aggressive style, Nick Clegg resembles the prime minister more with every passing day

Simon Hoggart

04, Dec, 2013 @6:46 PM

MPs sense blood of a dead parrot | Simon Hoggart

Simon Hoggart: Ed Davey earns jeers and taunts from Labour as he tries to justify energy costs to the Commons

Simon Hoggart

02, Dec, 2013 @9:01 PM

Simon Hoggart's week: let's end this obsession over Ed Miliband

Fraternal discord between the Milibands continues. But age did not give David an automatic right to the Labour leadership

Simon Hoggart

30, Nov, 2013 @12:01 AM

Another day, another U-turn: less a ship of state and more a dodgem car ride

Simon Hoggart | Ministers who are nominally driving keep crashing into each other as they swerve all over the political highway

Simon Hoggart

28, Nov, 2013 @8:05 PM

Mickey Fab gives it plenty of lip | Simon Hoggart

Simon Hoggart: Michael Fabricant looked like a cross between one of the Village People and the evildoer who ties the heiress to the railroad track

Simon Hoggart

27, Nov, 2013 @6:21 PM

Araucaria's last puzzle: crossword master dies

It's apt John Graham died 100 years and one week after the crossword's invention, by a Briton living in New York in 1913

Simon Hoggart

26, Nov, 2013 @10:49 PM

Great turnip's candle flickers, then finally bursts into flame

Eric Pickles started the day quietly, but by the close of play Labour MPs were feeling the sharp end of his tongue

Simon Hoggart

25, Nov, 2013 @7:29 PM

Writers and critics on the best books of 2013

Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Malcolm Gladwell, Eleanor Catton and many more recommend the books that impressed them this year

Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Tom Stoppard, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, William Boyd, Bill Bryson, Shami Chakrabarti, Sarah Churchwell, Antonia Fraser, Mark Haddon, Robert Harris, Max Hastings, Philip Hensher, Simon Hoggart, AM Homes, John Lanchester, Mark Lawson, Robert Macfarlane, Andrew Motion, Ian Rankin, Lionel Shriver, Helen Simpson, Colm Tóibín, Richard Ford, John Gray, David Kynaston, Penelope Lively, Pankaj Mishra, Blake Morrison and Susie Orbach

23, Nov, 2013 @7:00 AM