INSANE: 9 - The Real Truth

Rishi Sunak is the best choice the Tories could have made – but Labour can still beat him

Starmer may have preferred to face Mordaunt or Johnson, but the new PM has plenty of vulnerabilities, says the Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2022

Truss has discredited high-octane, free-market economics – perhaps for ever

Trussonomics, and Brexitism, have proven the dangers of trying to turn rightwing ideology into reality

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2022

The markets have taken back control: so much for Truss’s Brexit delusion of sovereignty

This is the biggest humiliation of Britain since Suez, a reminder that no government can ignore reality, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2022

Elizabeth bound our nation. Without her, will there even be a UK to reign over?

She was a priceless diplomatic asset and spoke with the moral weight of the wartime generation. Now we must confront the future without her, says Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK · Sep 19, 2022

The Queen’s death will shake this country deeply – she was a steady centre amid constant flux

The one element in our collective life that stayed reliably the same has gone. We enter a new future now

The Guardian - UK · Sep 8, 2022

Liz Truss’s worst nightmare is the lingering shadow of her predecessor

Boris Johnson has likened himself to Cincinnatus, who turned to farming after leaving Rome but returned as a dictator

The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2022

Once the world had Gorbachev and Mandela. Now we have Trump, Johnson and Truss

The Soviet leader’s death is a reminder that the ‘great man theory’ of history is truer than we might like to think, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK · Sep 2, 2022

Be warned: inflation could take British politics to a very dark place indeed

If Britain ends up in a recession, public anger will be looking for an outlet, says the Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK · Aug 5, 2022

Brexit is a mood, not a policy – and Liz Truss captures it in all its delusion

Rishi Sunak is the leaver of the two, but Truss tells Tory members the right fairytales – and they may reward her for it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK · Jul 22, 2022

The next PM may well be from an ethnic minority. That’s a big deal – and a challenge for Labour

If Starmer’s party is seen as one that values minorities only when they need protection, solid sources of votes will dry up, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2022