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The neoliberal Spartans led us all into this chaos

Letters: Jerry Palmer on the threads that run from Brexit to today’s turmoil in the UK’s economy and politics. Plus letters from Fawzi Ibrahim and Stephen Coleman

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The markets have taken back control: so much for Truss’s Brexit delusion of sovereignty

This is the biggest humiliation of Britain since Suez, a reminder that no government can ignore reality, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Female history and biography writing dominates Baillie Gifford shortlist

A study of the violence of Britain’s empire, Oliver Cromwell’s commonwealth and the present day refugee crisis are among five books by women vying for this year’s £50,000 first prize

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Fair play to Truss: stripped of competence or compassion, her extremism is refreshingly clear

This is how bad governments die - with the mask fallen away, their worst face revealed, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Jews. In Their Own Words. review – an illuminating, unsettling study of prejudice

Based on interviews by Jonathan Freedland with 12 British Jews, this verbatim play directed by Vicky Featherstone disturbs and frustrates

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Keir Starmer can lock the imploding Tories out for a decade – if he gets the message right

Labour has a brief window to sear a narrative into the public’s mind, so the Conservatives are saddled with this crisis for years, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Jews. In Their Own Words review – appalling revelations in a gallop through centuries of bigotry

Jonathan Freedland has turned 180,000 words drawn from interviews into a potent verbatim play about antisemitism and the blindspots of liberal institutions. The results feel urgent – but is its remit simply too large?

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Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have made a declaration of class war

This unofficial budget is morally indefensible, economically reckless and so risky it suggests a political death wish, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Antisemitism claims at the Royal Court theatre

Letters: Caryl Churchill and Dominic Cooke defend the play Seven Jewish Children, and John Pelling recalls plays by Arnold Wesker and Bernard Kops

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Violence of British empire in focus on Baillie Gifford longlist

Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins among potential winners of £50,000 nonfiction prize

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Once even Jews would utter the word ‘Jew’ in a whisper. Now it is up in lights

The fate of Jewish people is to be seen through a lens clouded by centuries of myth and imaginings. For a new play, I spoke to 12 British Jews whose stories illustrate the painful – and even bloody – consequences

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We must turn our backs on the age of deference

Letters: A change in the monarch should prompt a new conversation about constitutional reform, argue Steve Turner and the Rev Andrew McLuskey

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The Queen has left a void that Britain will struggle to fill

Letters: We should mourn a paragon of duty and devotion, say readers in response to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, but also take stock of the role of the monarchy

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Once the world had Gorbachev and Mandela. Now we have Trump, Johnson and Truss

The Soviet leader’s death is a reminder that the ‘great man theory’ of history is truer than we might like to think, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Be warned: inflation could take British politics to a very dark place indeed

If Britain ends up in a recession, public anger will be looking for an outlet, says the Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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We ignore moods in politics at our peril

Letters: Stephen Coleman advises paying attention to the ways in which mood inflects democratic politics

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In British politics, race is still the elephant in the room

Letters: Prof Gus John says the diversity being lauded in the Tory leadership contenders was meaningless as their campaigns did not feature the important issues of race and inequality. Plus letters from Robin Richardson and Deirdre Burrell

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Brexit is a mood, not a policy – and Liz Truss captures it in all its delusion

Rishi Sunak is the leaver of the two, but Truss tells Tory members the right fairytales – and they may reward her for it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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The next PM may well be from an ethnic minority. That’s a big deal – and a challenge for Labour

If Starmer’s party is seen as one that values minorities only when they need protection, solid sources of votes will dry up, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Everything tainted by Johnson’s lies needs to be undone. That includes his Brexit

The prime minister’s exit not only disgraces him and his party – it indicts the fast-unravelling project that brought him to No 10, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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These byelection defeats are the verdict on a cruel and useless government that’s running out of road

Losses in Tiverton & Honiton and in Wakefield are more than midterm blues. They’re a sign of the anti-Tory majority getting its act together, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Britain has a decision to make: the rule of Boris Johnson – or the rule of law?

For 800 years, traditions and statute have protected citizens from tyranny. This PM will trash it all, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland review – how an Auschwitz breakout alerted the world

The gripping and heroic story of Rudolf Vrba, who escaped the death camp in order to tell the world about its horrors

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Trump’s forces are preparing for the next storming of the Capitol. This time, they plan to win

The danger to US democracy didn’t end on 6 January – his followers are busy ripping up the safeguards that foiled them, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Pomp and politics: Inside the 10 June Guardian Weekly

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