Rishi’s own goal: six classic football gaffes by prime ministers – and what they reveal
Why sportspeople should stick to the pitch and stay out of politics
Andrew Anthony
November 2023
Brief letters
Don’t boil your cabbages twice, Nadine Dorries
Brief letters: Entitled elite | Christmas complications | Lords a-leaping | A PM who could handle small boats | A visual political metaphor?
July 2023
John Betjeman dismissed as ‘songster of tennis lawns’ in 1967 search for poet laureate
Records from the National Archive reveal the cut-throat world of British poetry, and the politics behind selecting candidates
February 2023
Rishi Sunak’s Whitehall carve up merely rearranges the deckchairs
The prime minister hopes this reorganisation will bring faster growth, but he will be disappointed
December 2022
The Guardian view on Sunak and the strikes: misreading the mood of the nation
Editorial: The prime minister is seeking confrontation with the unions in the belief he will reap a political reward
September 2022
Why the ‘Barber boom’ that Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget recalls was destined for disaster
Secret of the Queen’s soft power – across seven decades and 15 prime ministers
August 2022
They muck you up… Philip Larkin’s lament on sewage in our seas
Letter: Helen Taylor is impressed by the current relevance of the poem Going, Going, commissioned 50 years ago by the Department of the Environment
June 2022
From May to Heath: Tories who have faced votes on their leadership
Boris Johnson is not the first leader to face poll of party MPs, a situation that has often led to their downfall
August 2021
Police chief who led inquiry into Ted Heath faces misconduct charges
Mike Veale resigned as chief constable of Cleveland police in 2019 following ‘serious allegations’
June 2021
Maggie & Ted review – two Tory prime ministers, one long spat
Michael McManus, a former aide to Edward Heath, takes us on a rollicking ride through the politician’s clashes with Thatcher
April 2021
From the Guardian archive
Conservative students go wild as Edward Heath is dumped as patron – archive, 1985
2 April 1985: Closing the debate, conference was urged to ‘remove this scurrilous little man’
February 2021
Queen's consent investigations
Revealed: Queen lobbied for change in law to hide her private wealth
Monarch dispatched private solicitor to secure exemption from transparency law
December 2020
How Edward Heath taking a bath exposed Chequers' lax security
Adviser felt compelled to complain about security at PM’s country residence after incident, files reveal
Mugabe's love of cricket and Thatcher's 70th: stories revealed in National Archives papers
Proposed MCC membership for Mugabe and Thatcher’s birthday party plans among stories kept under wraps – until now
From the Guardian archive
The EU anthem: Ode to Joy – archive, 1972
Ahead of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, we look back at the significance of the EU’s adoption of Ode to Joy from his Ninth Symphony
July 2020
From the Guardian archive
Edward Heath at 80 still plans to have the last word – archive, 1996
9 July 1996: The public Heath has never been easily lovable and all those efforts to humanise a very private man, as musician, yachtsman, even as Father of the Commons, have never quite worked
January 2020
The highs and lows of Britain's 47 years in the EEC and EU
From the Guardian archive
We're in: the UK enters Europe - archive, 1 January 1973
