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Keir Starmer pays tribute to brother who died on Boxing Day
Nigel Farage working as paid brand ambassador for gold bullion firm
Reform party leader promoting gold for Direct Bullion alongside his jobs as MP and presenter for GB News
Living standards 2025 outlook ‘hardly cause for celebration’, says UK thinktank
Household incomes to stagnate or fall but will be offset by better public services, says Resolution Foundation
‘Why should I study Russian?’ Ukraine lobbies UK to introduce Ukrainian GCSE
Labour backs plans for £15m fund to distribute surplus food from farms
Northern Ireland Office ‘should have protected’ murdered solicitor
NHS at risk of paralysis while waiting for Wes Streeting’s reforms, says thinktank
Reform UK claims to be ‘real opposition’ with more members than Tories
Minister ‘surprised’ Fujitsu hasn’t done more to help victims of Post Office scandal
Politics Weekly UK is on holiday
Train passengers in Britain still facing record number of cancellations
Opinion
Across the west, the centre right is collapsing – and with it, any notion of what is ‘too extreme’
Owen Jones
Potholes everywhere, shoplifters rampant – today’s Britain looks as broken as it feels
Simon Jenkins
Nicola Jennings on Donald Trump’s impact on the UK economy in 2025 – cartoon
The Guardian view on the House of Lords: ministers risk a hollow reform with a partisan approach
Rebecca Hendin on who’s the meanest Mr Grinch – cartoon
The Guardian view on homelessness: a health crisis as well as a housing one
Ben Jennings on Kemi Badenoch’s Christmas – cartoon
The Guardian view on a ‘community right to buy’: unleashing the power of the local
Nicola Jennings on the ghost of Christmas yet to come – cartoon
I travelled up and down the UK this year. One album sums up what I saw
John Harris
Rachel Reeves’ push to improve EU ties remains boxed in by red lines
Heather Stewart
Farage, Musk and Candy say ‘cheese’ – now British democracy’s toast
Stewart Lee
Features & Analysis
‘It was a shock’: Emily Thornberry on her demotion from Starmer’s Labour frontbench
The real test for Nigel Farage will be if donors follow foot soldiers to Reform
How parties have come under fire over complaints against MPs
‘The joy went out of my life’: the pensioners struggling after loss of winter fuel payment
Politics Weekly UK
Every Thursday, Guardian political columnist John Harris hosts a cast of voices from up and down the country as well as across the political spectrum to analyse the week’s political news.
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Keir Starmer confirms Peter Mandelson as US ambassador while giving councils £1.6bn to ‘get on with fixing potholes’
Ben Jennings on the Gisèle Pelicot rape trial verdict – cartoon
Gisèle Pelicot’s husband was sentenced to 20 years in prison and 50 other men were found guilty at the end of the historic trial in France
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