Guardian and Observer charity telethon raises nearly £80,000 Journalists including Marina Hyde and John Crace help raise sum in aid of groups tackling cost of living crisis The Guardian - UK · Dec 18, 2022
The Guardian and Observer charity telethon 2022: call our writers to donate Help those struggling with the cost of living by calling writers including Marina Hyde, John Crace and Polly Toynbee with your donation The Guardian - UK · Dec 17, 2022
Dominic Raab may have the most terrible record in government, but at least it’s perfectly formatted From the Brexit department to the Foreign Office, the deputy PM has been remarkably consistent in his focus on all the wrong things, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2022
England’s armband activism was heroic – until it met the mere threat of a yellow card Vague, hashtag-friendly and easy to take off: the OneLove armband was the perfect non-protest for the Qatar World Cup, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde The Guardian - UK · Nov 22, 2022
No-jokes Jeremy Hunt can’t bridge gap between Tory fantasy and reality The message was that we were screwed for the foreseeable – just forget about who was to blame The Guardian - UK · Nov 17, 2022
Having filled us with fear, chancellor hints that horrors won’t be as huge as he thought The cuts will still be terrible, but not as terrible as they could have been. Rejoice! Celebrate St Jeremy, the patron saint of expectation management The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2022
All hail Jeff Bezos the philanthropist! The rest of us will just keep paying our taxes The Amazon founder says giving money away ‘is really hard’. Luckily, poor people do far more of it than he does, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2022
What’s more cringey than a Matt Hancock bushtucker trial? The Tory MPs voting for it These MPs have found their imaginary backbones only when he is washed up, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2022
Rishi Sunak the vanishing man zones out in PMQs pasting He’s now done three and is getting worse each time – you might have got more sense out of the lettuce The Guardian - UK · Nov 9, 2022
Cronyism, donors, wily MPs: Johnson’s honours glorify all that is wrong with his party The scandals pile so high the Tories hope we can’t keep track of them. But outside the walls of Westminster, anger is mounting, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2022
What happened to the bust from Jim Morrison’s grave? Brief letters: Père-Lachaise cemetery | Days brightened by John Crace | Lessons for the left | Eric Allison’s million-pound answer The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2022
‘Empty, unremarkable, muted’: how commentators saw Kwarteng’s speech The verdicts came swiftly on the chancellor’s speech after his high-profile tax U-turn The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2022
‘Brutal’: media deride Liz Truss’s local radio interviews Media commentators across political spectrum deride PM’s appearance on local radio to defend economic policy The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 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
The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2022 The dinner party from hell: Boris, Theresa and Dave Following news that a dinner with Johnson, May and Cameron was auctioned for £120,000, John Crace imagines the conversation
The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2022 ‘I feel totally seen’: John Crace on how guided breathing soothed a lifetime of anxiety After 65 anxious years, trying every conceivable treatment and therapy available, just one session of breathwork was all that was needed to calm a troubled mind
The Guardian - UK · Mar 29, 2022 Lebedev criticises Labour as MPs debate releasing security advice behind peerage – as it happened Latest updates: Peer says opposition criticism of him is based on ‘pure innuendo’; government may be forced to release security advice on Lebedev