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Pappardelle alla Yorkshire? Gourmet producers inspire a boom in British pasta

The UK imports more than £1bn worth of the Italian staple a year, but now sales are taking off for makers in Yorkshire, Cumbria and beyond

The Guardian - UK · Feb 16, 2025

The Tory leadership farce is no laughing matter – its outcome will pollute British politics

Labour has to stand up to toxic Tory posturing, or it will be pulled in the same direction as Jenrick and Badenoch, writes Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2024

There’s a huge, Brexit-shaped hole in this election – that’s why there’s such an air of unreality about it

The disconnect between promises and the material lives of voters that opened up in the referendum has not been repaired, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian - UK · Jun 10, 2024

As councils crumble, a new scapegoat has been found: the parents of disabled and vulnerable children

At least, that’s the suggestion from ministers who criticise people fighting for their kids to get an adequate education, writes Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK · Jan 7, 2024

Britain, a nation of dog lovers? Look at all the spoilt or abandoned pups, then tell me what you think

Whether bought for Christmas or the haze of lockdown, too many are either hopelessly anthropomorphised or neglected, says journalist Elle Hunt

The Guardian - UK · Dec 25, 2023

How one English town fought cookie-cutter housing by daring to dream a different future

The people of Frome, in Somerset, weren’t ready to have their heritage built over with the same cheap developments that bedevil much of the UK, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK · Dec 10, 2023

Culture is not trivial, it’s about who we are. That’s why Labour needs a plan to save the arts

Music, theatre and art have been crushed by years of Tory cuts. They need to be nurtured again with purpose and with pride, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins

The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2023

Covid deaths are on the rise again, so what happens? Mask-wearing in hospitals is scrapped

The only masking that’s going on is that of the government’s continued failure to get to grips with the virus, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK · Oct 16, 2023

Our generation was told liberal economics would make us free. Look at us now. We were misled

Switching close but stifling social networks for a state safety net once gave us more choice in how we lived. Now we’re losing both, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian - UK · Jul 24, 2023

Cold, cynical and paranoid: if this is Labour in opposition, what will it look like in power?

Keir Starmer’s party is pushing the idea that you can pursue progressive ends through nasty means to its limit, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2023