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Aditya Chakrabortty

Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian

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Lies, confections, distortions: how the right made London the most vilified place in Britain

I have been reading about the most abysmal place. It is a land where children, red-faced with their own radicalism, march alongside bearded Islamists...

25.04.2024 50

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To understand Britain’s malaise, visit Shildon – the town that refused to die

In 1951, the county of Durham condemned 114 villages to a slow death. The older, smaller coalmines were approaching exhaustion, which meant, officials...

11.04.2024 100

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Sam Bankman-Fried will grow old in jail. But don’t forget those who basked in his orbit

Later today, a man who has recently turned 32 will be hauled in front of a Manhattan judge. Already convicted of huge fraud, he knows he’s going to...

28.03.2024 100

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One simple change could restore faith in local democracy. But nobody is talking about it

This year is only eight weeks old, yet we can already write a brief history of the near future. In Coventry, victims of sexual violence will no longer...

01.03.2024 100

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So this is how the Royal Mail ends: killed by lying politicians, lousy managers and ruthless moneymen

How does a great institution die? In the same two stages as Hemingway believed people went bankrupt: gradually, then suddenly. Entire decades may pass...

01.02.2024 200

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The Tories are right, we should stop the boats. Just not the ones they’re talking about

Rishi Sunak is in thrall to just two syllables: small boats. Plunging wages, extortionate heating bills, collapsing public services – such trivia...

18.01.2024 10

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Heading isolated and paranoid into the night, these are the voters our politicians created

“You talkin’ to me?” One of the most famous speeches of the past half-century is delivered with only a mirror for an audience. Alone in his...

04.01.2024 100

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The miserly tale of how a university took its staff’s wages – and the public paid the price

In this season of quizzing, here’s a real head-scratcher. Can you name the big British employer that punished staff for boycotting a small fraction...

22.12.2023 70

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How do young Britons see the massacre in Gaza? These Luton students will tell you

Two minutes before the hour, and only a handful of friends had turned up. The student organisers looked at each other in dismay. Would their protest,...

07.12.2023 100

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Ever get the feeling you’re being bribed? This is how the Tories will fight the next election

The bottom line from that autumn statement? Prepare for a general election in the spring. Yes, the Tories lag far behind in the polls; and sure, Rishi...

23.11.2023 70

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The Westminster panto is in full swing: but there are real dangers waiting in the wings

The hall is shrouded in blackness, the audience ensconced in plush red seats. All heads are turned to the bright lights on stage for that annual...

09.11.2023 50

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The thousands calling for a ceasefire and peace deserve better than abuse and belittlement

As a million Britons marched through London in 2003 against war with Iraq, William Rees-Mogg gazed on from outside the Athenaeum Club in Pall Mall. In...

26.10.2023 200

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Is Labour the party of workers’ tools or cafetieres? I worry that Starmer doesn’t know

T o understand how Keir Starmer’s team sees class, it helps to know a story. It’s told by his head of strategy, Deborah Mattinson, about a series...

12.10.2023 40

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