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Martin Kettle

Martin Kettle is a Guardian associate editor and columnist

October 2024

  • Boris Johnson walking away from a lectern

    Unleashed by Boris Johnson review – memoirs of a clown

  • Britain's PM Keir Starmer visits Washington, DC<br>Secretary of State Antony Blinken looks on during a meeting with US President Joe Biden Prime Britain's PM Keir Starmer and Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy in the Blue Room at the White House in Washington DC. Picture date: Friday September 13, 2024. Stefan Rousseau/Pool via REUTERS

    Whether it’s Trump or Harris in office, Starmer will need an incredible US ambassador. Here’s my vote

    Martin Kettle

September 2024

  • Illustration: Bill Bragg

    After Labour’s near-death experience, Starmer needs a way to head off claims of sleaze. I have a way

    Martin Kettle
    We were promised an honest government of service and the public will demand that, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
  • illustration: sebastien thibault

    Working together, Labour and the Lib Dems could exile the Tories for a generation

    Martin Kettle
    Starmer and Davey need to seize the moment. They have enough common ground to ally against their common enemy, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
  • Illustration by Sébastien Thibault for the Guardian.

    Both the Tories and the SNP suffered catastrophic defeats – but only one of them is facing up to that

    Martin Kettle
    The Conservatives kid themselves that a new leader is all they need, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

August 2024

  • Keir Starmer visits the Siemens Energy plant on his visit to Berlin.

    A warning from the No 10 garden and an EU olive branch. We are finally seeing Starmerism in action

    Martin Kettle
  • Illustration

    Workers v bosses: the right is obsessed with zero-sum rows over trade union power. Starmer is right to ignore them

    Martin Kettle
  • Illustration: Ben Jennings

    In cancelling his family summer holiday, Keir Starmer has made his first serious mistake

    Martin Kettle
  • A great performance … Daniel Barenboim conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.

    Prom 31: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Barenboim review – an unforgettable and heroic return

  • Starmer is being tough on the rioters, but history shows that preventing further unrest is the real challenge

    Martin Kettle

  • Labour is still in its ‘phoney’ period. Far tougher tests await in autumn

    Martin Kettle

July 2024

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    It might be hard to take the future of the Conservative party seriously right now – but we must

    Martin Kettle
    The UK needs a robust, competent centre-right party to stave off the threat of the populist right, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
  • A focus on the music’s architecture … Mark Elder, left, conducts the Hallé Orchestra in Prom 4.

    Prom 4: Hallé/Elder review – a farewell eclipsed by the quality of the music-making

    Mark Elder has led the Hallé for 24 years, championing the company’s choirs, in great voice here in a striking James MacMillan work, and bringing cerebral discipline and striking emotional truth to Mahler’s Fifth Symphony

    • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
      Starmer warns ‘no quick fix’ for UK as he faces pressure over child poverty and benefits – as it happened

    • With this king’s speech, Starmer has staked everything on the long game. But politics has a habit of moving fast

      Martin Kettle

    • Starmer wants us to believe we can trust politicians again. That’s huge – but he has to mean it

      Martin Kettle

June 2024

  • Conservative Party Conference, Day 2, Manchester, UK - 02 Oct 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by James Veysey/Shutterstock (14133219aw) Rishi Sunak and Margaret Thatcher coaster merchandise on display at the Conservative Party Conference Conservative Party Conference, Day 2, Manchester, UK - 02 Oct 2023

    Tories blame Sunak for this implosion, but they are fooling themselves. The rot goes back decades

    Martin Kettle
  • General Election campaign 2024<br>Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey plays a game of frisbee during a visit to Crowd Hill Farm, in Hampshire, while on the General Election campaign trail. Picture date: Tuesday June 18, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Election LibDems. Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

    The Tories are fixating on Reform. They should be focused on a far bigger threat

    Martin Kettle
  • Rishi Sunak at the Conservative party's manifesto launch, Silverstone, Northamptonshire, 11 June 2024.

    With this half-hearted, delusional manifesto, Rishi Sunak has all but given up

    Martin Kettle
  • Keir Starmer on a campaign visit to BAE Systems in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, in April 2024

    Don’t underestimate Starmer’s push for workers’ rights – it could be his defining legacy

    Martin Kettle
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