Itemoids

You are not logged in so some information on this page has been withheld. To see more, please log in.

Martin Kettle

since

auto-detected in 337 stories

6 days ago

Rachel Reeves seized her moment – whatever the future brings, Labour’s economic course is now set | Martin Kettle

The chancellor is no mere technocrat: her spending review revealed a visceral commitment to social and economic mobility

The consensus has long been that the 2025 spending review would be a defining m…

13 days ago

Why is defence such a hard sell? The same reason Starmer is struggling in the polls | Martin Kettle

Decades of failures have left liberal democratic governments unable to command public confidence when it really matters

Defence reviews and foreign policy resets seem to turn up almost as often as the…

14 days ago

How the use of a word in the Guardian has gotten some readers upset | Elisabeth Ribbans

‘Got’ was changed during the editing of an opinion piece, leading to correspondence lamenting a slide into American English. But language isn’t a fortress

In Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part II, a messeng…

20 days ago

Charles has pushed the boundaries of politics as king – and got away with it | Martin Kettle

Right now, the monarch’s political leanings appear in sympathy with the mood of Britain. But what if the public moves further to the right?

It requires an effort to keep reminding yourself of the shee…

62 days ago

Can we stop pretending a trade deal with Trump will be a gamechanger for the UK. It won’t | Martin Kettle

I’m not saying Britain should refuse every sort of free trade agreement with the US, but there may be options that better suit Labour’s purpose

It’s a deal. The words sound good. Most human beings are…

69 days ago

76 days ago

Perilous and chaotic, Trump’s ‘liberation day’ endangers the world’s broken economy – and him | Martin Kettle

While the president has identified the need to do things differently, his strategy risks a slump, hitting the very Americans he claims to champion

It would be “liberation day” in the US, the White Hou…

Perilous and chaotic, Trump’s ‘liberation day’ imperils the world’s broken economy – and him | Martin Kettle

While the president has identified the need to do things differently, his strategy risks a slump, hitting the very Americans he claims to champion

It would be “liberation day” in the US, the White Hou…

90 days ago

Europe doesn’t need Trump to form a western alliance – and one is already taking shape | Martin Kettle

Britain, France and Germany are closing ranks to bolster Nato as the unreliable US president marches to his own drum

An Atlantic alliance without the United States? It sounds like a contradiction in t…

3 months ago

Trump might not know it, but he’s forging a new relationship between Britain and the EU | Martin Kettle

Support for Ukraine means that closer ties to Europe are now a patriotic priority, opening up avenues that Brexit had once blocked

It would be absurd to claim to see a silver lining behind every Donal…

page 1 of 2 last →|