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Palace of Westminster

November 2023

  • Elizabeth Tower, known as Big Ben

    Bong! Big Ben broadcasts to return to Radio 4’s regular schedule

    Westminster’s famous bell will be heard live from next week after years of only occasional appearances

September 2023

  • Sonia Sodha

    Net zero, housing, HS2… all delayed. In modern Britain, short-termism rules

    Sonia Sodha
  • the Palace of Westminster in London

    Collapse-risk concrete found in Houses of Parliament

June 2023

  • Michael and Patty Hopkins

    Sir Michael Hopkins, Portcullis House and Mound Stand architect, dies aged 88

  • Marie Le Conte

    Boris Johnson’s messages are just the start of it: the government is run on WhatsApp

    Marie Le Conte

May 2023

  • Marina Hyde

    Pity the MPs who hate the London bubble and its elites – but just can’t leave them behind

    Marina Hyde
  • People walk in front of the Elizabeth Tower, more commonly known as Big Ben in London,

    Time stands still at Westminster as Big Ben fails to chime

January 2023

  • Anna Betz with her laptop

    Visitor to UK parliament made to cover ‘stop Brexit’ sticker on laptop

  • Penny Mordaunt in Downing Street

    Poorer people in UK feel system ‘rigged against them’, says Penny Mordaunt

October 2022

  • Commons Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, behind the face of the Great Clock.

    Big Ben clock to be turned back to GMT for first time in five years

    London landmark to signal end of daylight saving after major repair and conservation project

July 2022

  • Rowan Moore

    Notebook
    The Palace of Westminster must be saved, but not the vast expanse of interior detail

    Rowan Moore
    The Houses of Parliament, a globally famous monument, will cost up to £13bn to restore. But this amount can be cut in a way that hardly anyone would notice
  • Palace of Westminster

    Observer letters
    Letters: parliament is at risk from neglect, not fire

    The buildings will resist going up in smoke, but essential services are in most urgent need of replacement
  • Construction of the Palace of Westminster began in 1840 and took three decades to complete.

    Britain’s Notre Dame? Why MPs need to solve the Houses of Parliament problem

    The renovation of the Palace of Westminster has foundered amid soaring cost projections, infighting and safety fears. Can anyone find a way forward?

June 2022

  • Inside the Central Tower (above Central Lobby). Houses of Parliament. Palace of Westminster. London. Photograph by David Levene 2/11/17

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: ‘A tale of decay’: the Houses of Parliament are falling down – podcast

    From 2017: As politicians dither over repairs, the risk of fire, flood or a deluge of sewage only increases. But fixing the Palace of Westminster might change British politics for good – which is the last thing many of its residents want. By Charlotte Higgins

May 2022

  • Jess Phillips

    Workplaces as run down as parliament would cause picketing, says Jess Phillips

    Labour MP tells Hay festival that Palace of Westminster is ‘falling apart’ and would be condemned if it were any other building

March 2022

  • Palace of Westminster

    A modern parliament doesn’t need a brand new building

  • The palace of Westminster

    Can we afford the grand designs for parliament?

December 2021

  • Conservationists have reinstated a Prussian blue and gold colour scheme for Big Ben’s dials and clock hands.

    Restored Big Ben to bong again at midnight to bring in new year

    Clock face revealed for first time since 2017 to show conservation work and restoration of original colour scheme

July 2021

  • Visitors to Stonehenge

    Stonehenge may be next UK site to lose world heritage status

    Britain is eroding global reputation for conserving its historic assets, culture bodies are warning

June 2021

  • Sajid Javid

    Ministers should not have cameras in their offices, Sajid Javid says

    New health secretary confirms recording device in his office has been disabled after Hancock leak
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