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Tony Benn

May 2024

  • Composite: Guardian Design/PA/In Pictures/Getty

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘I’ll stay an MP for as long as I can’: Diane Abbott’s tumultuous political journey – podcast

    Britain’s first black female MP faced hostility from the media and political establishment from the start. Nearly 40 years on, she is still not giving up. By Andy Beckett
  • Diane Abbott (centre) and other MPs in 1987.

    The Searchers by Andy Beckett review – the legacy of the radical left

    What do the careers of Diane Abbott, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone and John McDonnell tell us about political success?
  • Searchers Composite

    Observer book of the week
    The Searchers by Andy Beckett review – the leftists who took their lead from Tony Benn

    An absorbing study of the radical left makes a convincing case for their cultural victories but romanticises the Jeremy Corbyn years

April 2024

  • collage illustration with Diane Abbott at the centre, surrounded by (clockwise from left): Tony Blair, a Stoke Newington sign, Diane Abbott, Ken Livingston, Hackney Town hall, Child Q protestors, Jeremy Corbyn

    The long read
    ‘I’ll stay an MP for as long as I can’: Diane Abbott’s tumultuous political journey

    The long read: Britain’s first black female MP faced hostility from the media and political establishment from the start. Nearly 40 years on, she is still not giving up

February 2024

  • The Post Office Tower, later the BT Tower, London, UK, August 1965.

    From the Guardian archive
    The Post Office Tower opens: ‘the 20th century Big Ben’ – archive, 1965

    On 8 October 1965, prime minister Harold Wilson officially opened what was then Britain’s tallest building

July 2021

  • Stephen Benn, who is director of parliamentary affairs at the Royal Society of Biology, said he would focus on ‘developing the relationship between science and parliament’.

    Tony Benn’s son takes House of Lords seat renounced by his father

    Stephen Benn becomes Labour peer, after late father called hereditary peerage system ‘absolutely mad’

August 2020

  • Boris Johnson

    Lies, suspicion and silence in the Tory party

    Letters: Les Bright wants MPs to challenge every decision and use the full force of parliamentary procedure to expose the truth, David Kynaston thinks more people should lose their temper about ‘a quiet coup’, while Elizabeth Brett is replaying Barack Obama’s speech

January 2020

  • Keir Starmer

    How Labour can make itself electable again

    Letters: Readers respond to a piece by Martin Kettle in which he says the party needs to take time for judgments to settle about its descent into the electoral abyss

November 2019

  • Kenan Malik

    Once, politicians treated voters as adults. Now they are contemptuous

    Kenan Malik
    A 40-year-old debate on the Common Market points up how debased UK politics has become

June 2019

  • Boarded-up shops in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, traditionally a strong Labour-voting area

    Brexit, class and what Labour should do next

  • Beauty and the Beast Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, until 12 Jan Press publicity image supplied by PR Credit: Robert Day

    Brief letters
    Theatre by the Lake has got a decent rep

May 2019

  • Gary Younge

    If you didn’t desert Labour over the Iraq war, why give up on it over Brexit?

    Gary Younge
    Those who stuck with the party after its worst decision are now inexplicably drawing a line in the sand, says Guardian columnist Gary Younge

March 2019

  • Tony Benn in 1979.

    'The most tremendous result': how Tony Benn celebrated losing to Denis Healey

    Audio diaries reveal how Labour leftwinger celebrated ‘popularity without power’ after losing deputy leadership race in 1981

November 2018

  • Roy Bailey performing at the Barbican in London in 1999.

    Roy Bailey obituary

    Singer whose political brand of folk music brought him fame in Europe and the US

September 2018

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    For Labour's economic policy to be radical, it has to be credible

    Larry Elliott
  • Current Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

    No oath of loyalty to Labour leaders

July 2018

  • Tony Benn arrives at a polling station to cast his vote in the 1975 referendum on the European Community, with his daughter Melissa

    Why Tony Benn would have changed his mind on the European Union

  • Chequers<br>Prime Minister Theresa May commences a meeting with her cabinet at Chequers to discuss Brexit.

    Chequers Brexit summit only muddies the water

February 2018

  • David Cameron delivers a speech on the EU at Luton airport, 24 May 2016

    Important words about Brexit

    Letters: Christopher Rainger thinks Keir Starmer should say ‘No Brexit’ is the best ‘Jobs Brexit’. But John Doherty recalls David Cameron’s pledge that the referendum would be final. And Peter McKenna says that if anyone led the Brexit charge it was Tony Benn

January 2018

  • Jeremy Corbyn and Labour's Brexit spokesman, Keir Starmer, outside EU headquarters

    Goodbye Berliner, auf wiedersehen Berlin, so long Labour?

    Letters: Just as the Guardian is changing format, so can the EU, but Labour must also change its approach to Brexit, says Nick Mayer, while Mike Harding explains why he has torn up his Labour membership card
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