The Best of Guardian politics
8 most popular Guardian politics articles, as voted by our community.
News and opinion on UK politics from the Guardian
Guardian politics on Politics
‘I saw how grotesquely unqualified so many of us were’: Rory Stewart on his decade as a…
When he arrived in 2010, he was surrounded by people who looked like him – and shared some of the same assumptions. Then, as the world changed in unimaginable ways, he watched in horror as the people…
Guardian politics on Procurement
One in six UK public procurement contracts had tax haven link, study finds
Exclusive: Labour vows to end ‘Tory procurement racket’ and reward firms that pay taxes responsibly
Guardian politics on Statistics
How statistics lost their power
Statistics were once the authority on facts, but society has grown increasingly wary of them, especially of their use in politics. Sociologist and political economist William Davies explains what led to statistics’ fall from grace. He considers statistics in the context of their history and offers an opinion on why big data analysis can’t replace the service statistics provide for democracy.
Guardian politics on Trump
Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media
With links to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage, the rightwing American computer scientist is at the heart of a multimillion-dollar propaganda network
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Economics made simple: 10 experts on where the cost of living crisis came from, and where it’s…
Rampant inflation, war in Ukraine, Brexit… we ask 10 experts to explain what the economic crisis means for Britain and how we should respond
Votes for children! Why we should lower the voting age to six
The long read presents Reconstruction after Covid: The generational divide is deforming democracy. But there is a solution
«Far from inhabiting separate planets, the different generations often inhabit the same homes.»
Rishi Sunak vows to end low-earning degrees in post-16 education shake-up
Candidate for PM proposes to raise prestige of vocational education and mandate sixth-form maths and English with a British baccalaureate
Rishi who? Sunak says Stanford business school changed his life, but few remember him
Teachers at Tory leadership contender’s alma mater say they have no recollection of the man who would be prime minister
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