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Benjamin Disraeli

February 2021

  • Posters in a travel agent's window in London

    The Guardian view on a post-Covid recovery: not just for the well-off

    Editorial: The government must not allow an even more divided society to emerge post-pandemic

December 2019

  • Benjamin Disraeli, (1804 - 1881).

    Lessons in Toryism from the past

    Letters: Charly Lomas looks back on Disraeli’s Conservatives, while David H Yeats ponders Boris Johnson’s link to King Frederick I of Württemberg

June 2018

  • a map showing Atlantic slave trade routes

    The Audio Long Read
    When will Britain face up to its crimes against humanity? – podcast

    After the abolition of slavery, Britain paid millions in compensation – but every penny of it went to slave owners, and nothing to those they enslaved. We must stop overlooking the brutality of British history.

November 2017

  • Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, Philip Hammond

    This budget could be ‘Fiscal Phil’ Hammond’s big opportunity

    Letters: Housing and inequality top readers’ concerns but Derrick Joad thinks the chancellor would benefit from a reading of Disraeli’s novel Sybil, while others pick up on his shorthand typist gaffe

October 2017

  • The former Labour prime minister Ramsay MacDonald’s National Government was dominated by Conservatives and he was vilified by the party he had once led.

    A look back
    From the Observer archive: this week in 1933

    The voices of Conservative disruption

July 2017

  • The Silent Highway Man Magazine Illustration<br>Text in image: The 'Silent Highway' Man, "Your Money or your Life!", Punch or the London charivari, July 10 1858. (Photo by Michael Nicholson/Corbis via Getty Images)
Big stink

    Book of the week
    One Hot Summer by Rosemary Ashton review – London and the Great Stink

    As temperatures rose in 1858 a Thames river full of sewage caused an awful stench and a ‘monster soup’ of disease. This cultural history investigates

June 2016

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    Disraeli by David Cesarani review – the Jewish prime minister and antisemitism

    Disraeli climbed the greasy pole by defending the very culture that had shut Jews out – and himself peddled antisemitic ideas in his fiction

January 2015

  • Mary Anne Disraeli

    Mr & Mrs Disraeli review – a thoroughly modern marriage

    Did Benjamin and Mary Anne Disraeli, a self-made odd couple, create a convenient fiction of devotion for the voters, asks Robert McCrum

October 2014

  • ukip

    Divisions between Nigel Farage and Douglas Carswell reinforced in Clacton

    Ukip’s first elected MP declines to offer specific endorsement for the party leader’s call for a ban on migrants with HIV

April 2014

  • Disraeli was Jewish

    Letters: Who has decided Miliband is an atheist Jew, while Disraeli was not a Christian Jew?

February 2014

  • Lord Palmerston

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 25 February 1852: Prime Minister Lord John Russell resigns

    Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 25 February 1852: Foreign secretary Lord Palmerston's amendment to a bill by the prime minister leads to a vote of no confidence and the collapse of the government

December 2013

  • Benjamin Disraeli

    The 100 best novels
    The 100 best novels: No 11 – Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli (1845)

    The future prime minister displayed flashes of brilliance that equalled the greatest Victorian novelists, writes Robert McCrum

November 2013

  • Benjamin Disraeli

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 22 November 1876: Editorial: Tory rallies troops in Birmingham

    Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 22 November 1876: The new 'medicine man' of the Tory party wonders why Birmingham alone gives a solid Liberal vote

July 2013

  • Benjamin Disraeli

    Disraeli: Or the Two Lives by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young – review

    A biography of a Tory hero that might easily have strayed into hagiography instead proves a fascinating character study, writes Richard Davenport-Hines

March 2013

  • Mary Shelley

    A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd – review

    Daisy Hay is unhappy with a novel that paints Frankenstein's creator as a murderous fiend
  • Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

    Pass notes
    Benjamin Disraeli – pass notes No 3,259

    The 19th-century Tory prime minister is in the news again – as the inspiration for Ed Miliband's vision of Britain as one nation under Labour

  • Tanya Gold

    Ed Miliband is a worthy inheritor of Disraeli's creed

    Tanya Gold
    Tanya Gold: David Cameron may try to steal the 'one nation' ideal back next week. Yet he chose not to learn from his reforming predecessor
  • Steve Bell on Ed Miliband's Labour party conference speech

    Steve Bell: 'Ed Miliband has got an amazing mouth – full of teeth' - video

    Steve Bell explains the ideas behind his drawing of Ed Miliband during the 2012 party conference speech in Manchester

  • Ed Miliband at the Labour party conference

    Ed Miliband the leader steps into the limelight

  • Ed Miliband moves to claim Disraeli's 'one nation' mantle

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