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

The decline of this great institution is a story in microcosm of how so many aspects of British life have been degraded, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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

The ocean-poisoning superyachts of global plutocrats are a symbol of the class that’s really behind Britain’s misfortunes, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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One year on, is Rishi Sunak fulfilling his five promises to voters?

Prime minister pledged to halve inflation, grow economy, cut national debt, lower NHS waits and ‘stop the boats’

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

So many citizens are angry and cynical, like Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle. I wish our leaders would ask themselves why, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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

Even Scrooge would marvel at Queen Mary’s pay-docking over a marking boycott. No wonder higher education is in turmoil, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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

For many people under 25, the daily pulverisation of Gaza has become their generation’s rallying cause , says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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

The chancellor’s autumn statement was a mishmash of giveaways, but you can spin Britain’s grim economic reality only so far, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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

War, economic breakdown and the climate crisis spell the end of ‘the end of history’, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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

Politicians and much of the media ignore, stereotype and demonise protestors. This lack of engagement is a risk to us all, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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For Labour to reach alienated working-class voters, Starmer needs to treat them less like tools

The likely next PM will never win over ‘working people’ while his party cosies up to corporations and betrays the unions, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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This horror story visited on South Wales by Suella Braverman could be coming to a street near you

A far-right backlash against the home secretary’s asylum policy has brought a deluge of hate to a peaceful Welsh town, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Can’t pay and they really do take it away: what happens when the bailiffs come knocking

First, Sharron’s car was impounded. But what followed shows how the poor are punished for their poverty

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Uxbridge was not just an anti-green protest: it was the sour spirit of Brexit revived

This byelection should have been a Labour landslide – but local Tories’ freedom to choose their candidate changed all that, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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So George Osborne has a new podcast. What do the victims of his austerity policies get?

Entertainment launders reputations. No wonder washed-up politicians are so keen to invest in this great speech bubble, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Britain is the Dorian Gray economy, hiding its ugly truths from the world. Now they are exposed

Our rulers painted false pictures of success while real wealth and wages withered away, says the Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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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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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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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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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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