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Friday briefing: The next phase of Saudi Arabia’s ‘sportswashing’ project? Buying a whole game

In today’s newsletter: The Saudi government-backed LIV Golf has merged with the core professional golf tour – and it’s part of a bigger plan to launder the country’s reputation

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Notes on a scandal: this is how Starmer’s bullies took out Jamie Driscoll – and why it matters

Having examined how the North of Tyne mayor was barred from standing again, I see something akin to McCarthyism, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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First it was no to Polish plumbers, then Afghan refugees. Now the right doesn’t want any migrants at all

This week’s furore over entirely legal migration proves it was never the kind of foreigner you were, simply your foreignness, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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The lesson from the Diane Abbott row: if we fight racism in silos, we just can’t win

The row caused by Diane Abbott’s dreadful letter was depressing, but just as sad was what it revealed about modern racial politics, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Right to buy has cost London’s communities dearly

Letter: Liz du Parcq responds to an article by Aditya Chakrabortty on how the heart of the city has been hollowed out and no longer serves families

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Disappearing schools, families forced out – and we call this progress

In inner London, a city without children is not some kind of dystopia but the new reality as communities are hollowed out, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Beware Hunt’s hype. There’s more poverty ahead and his budget did nothing to change that

The statement will be remembered for the childcare pledge, but there was nothing to meet the scale of Britain’s economic malaise, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Guardian wins daily newspaper of the year at the Press Awards

Saturday magazine also awarded supplement of the year, while Aditya Chakrabortty and Jay Rayner receive accolades

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Rats, mould, damp: one woman’s story reveals the ugly truth about the UK’s biggest housing association

A mother of three’s struggle with Clarion over her squalid home reflects a system rigged to favour asset-owners while renters are abandoned, says the Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Sunak thinks he is following Thatcher’s union-busting playbook. But he has fatally misread it

Unlike her latest tribute act, the iron lady was an astute judge of public opinion, and an avoider of political traps, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Suella Braverman proved it again: racism is a fire the Tories love to play with

The home secretary was confronted about her inflammatory language. But it’s a rich party tradition, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Examining the origins of our economic woes

Letters: Margaret Morris and Lee Cornish respond to an article by Aditya Chakrabortty on the consequences of Conservative dogma

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Discipline the poor, protect the rich – it’s the same old Tories, same old class war

Brexit didn’t change the party: austerity was as heartless under Cameron and Osborne as it is under Sunak, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Welcome to the doom loop of Tory Britain: an austerity that kills, a democracy routed

It was cuts that gave us Brexit and the chaos that followed, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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What private healthcare does as the NHS suffers cuts

Letters: Janet Dobson and Margaret Pelling argue that private healthcare is detrimental to the NHS, while David Furness and Justin Ash say that it plays a complementary role and supports the health service

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Why is private health booming and the NHS in crisis? Because that’s what ministers want

Don’t be fooled: your suffering on a record waiting list is great business for some firms, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Tuesday briefing: The Truss thinkers that tanked the Tories

In today’s newsletter: Free market thinktanks are rejoicing at Kwasi Kwarteng’s neo-Thatcherism. But how do they operate – and what might their influence mean for Britain?

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This is Truss and Kwarteng’s crisis, not yours – but you’re already a lot poorer because of them

In 25 years of reporting, I have never seen a financial crisis so utterly avoidable, and dragging so much human misery in tow, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Counting the cost of a King’s inheritance

Letters: Yvonne Williams, Roger Dobson and Mike Sheaff respond to an article by Aditya Chakrabortty on King Charles not paying inheritance tax

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It’s one law for King Charles the billionaire and another for his struggling subjects

It is only proper that the new King pays no inheritance tax – says the state that makes citizens choose between heating or eating, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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These are energy bills many Britons simply can’t afford. Some will pay with their lives

This price hike threatens to create a whole new class of poor, and it is clear our wretched politics will do nothing to protect them, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Why is food poverty a fact of life in 21st-century Britain?

Letters: Today’s need for food banks shows how little society has evolved from the 19th century, writes Karen Wynyard. Plus Susan Le Jeune on attitudes to food banks

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One Welsh town offers a window on to the catastrophe facing Britain. But where are the politicians?

In Shotton, a pioneering food company is being forced to make up for the gaping holes in the welfare state, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Sunak, Truss and the Bank of England are lying to you – the UK economy is weak and rigged

Westminster is perpetrating the same scam as the rate-setters – bluffing that they can get the old economic machinery working like before, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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How our cities fall prey to power and money

Letters: Anthony Molloy and Dr Stephen Dearden respond to Aditya Chakrabortty’s article on how Manchester was sold to Abu Dhabi’s elite. Plus one reader on why local authorities are not solely to blame

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