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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 5 - Caught on Camera

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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How a great English city sold itself to Abu Dhabi’s elite – and not even for a good price

Manchester’s Labour council let Sheikh Mansour buy up acres of public land for seemingly a fraction of its worth, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Don’t waste all your anger on Boris Johnson — save some for his enablers

The prime minister and his wrecking crew already smashed our democracy – now they are just turning the ire on themselves, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Profiteering bosses, not workers, are pushing up inflation. Here’s how to fight back

Unite’s leader, Sharon Graham, is leading the charge against 21st-century corporations. Why isn’t Labour following suit, asks Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Welcome to another episode of the Boris Johnson show: the most tedious box set in history

It’s cliffhanger after cliffhanger with our soap-opera prime minister. And he always gets away with it, says the Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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The ugly consequences of the right’s culture war

Letters: Dominic McGinley and Cynthia Dunn respond to Aditya Chakrabortty’s article about the Oxford University student who became the focus of a rightwing press frenzy last summer

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Hate mail and death threats: how the right wrecked one man’s life for its culture war

Matthew Katzman was forced out of the UK after he was accused of ‘cancelling the Queen’. For pundits and politicians, it was all just lucrative fun, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Elon Musk is the king of trolls in an age of troll politics. Time to stop feeding him

There are no good defences of the new Twitter owner’s vile bullying, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Russia and western values: how the east was lost to capitalist opportunism

Letters: Michael Meadowcroft on the west’s mistakes after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Anthony Matthew on why proposing a Nuremberg-style tribunal for Vladimir Putin is a bad idea. Plus letters from Tony Wild and Oscar Clarke

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Western values? They enthroned the monster who is shelling Ukrainians today

However repressive his regime, Vladimir Putin was tolerated by the US, Britain and the EU – until he became intolerable, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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A tale of two towns – one in the north, one in the south – exposes the lie of ‘levelling up’

Instead of fixing the inequalities that run across the UK, Johnson’s Tories are combining culture war with electioneering, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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It’s not just Johnson: the whole culture that cheered him on needs booting out

I was mourning my mother as Downing St partied. But even I can’t blame this morally bankrupt prime minister alone, says the Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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