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Aiming to reclaim his party’s role as the builders of “property-owning democracy”, Rishi Sunak used the Conservative manifesto launch to praise his predecessor Harold Macmillan. As Winston Churchill’s housing minister in the 1950s, Macmillan first set the target of completing more than 300,000 homes across the UK each year.

Ideas of exceptionalism and ‘laissez-faire’ policies are still driving economic myths that should be stone dead

Writer, thinker and champion of green economics, monetary reform and new ways of looking at employment

From privatisation to Brexit to its current collapse, the damage done by the Conservative party leaves one longing for the past

IT was Scotland v. England last week. The opening ceremony saw football commentators talk about “the two national anthems” before God Save The…

For voters, the choice is still between the established parties. A more rational politics remains tantalisingly out of reach, says Guardian associate editor Martin Kettle

SCOTTISH politics has been shaped by big events in recent weeks.

The Labour front bench was highly visible in Davos, while Sunak didn’t even attend. One senses that the guard is changing

In the car-crazed 1960s, planners came up with a scheme to slash through the capital’s inner suburbs with huge freeways. Only fragments were ever built – but they tell of a fate narrowly avoided