Aditya Chakrabortty
@chakrabortty
I am gainfully employed by a newspaper. Future generations will not be able to say that.
What my mother’s glorious life taught me about Britain today. My column. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Fair play, that's the best press coverage No10 has delivered yet 👏
In the UK you can be arrested for flying a Palestinian flag but it's fine to send millions of pounds to an illegal Jewish settlement responsible for racist violence & ethnically cleansing Palestinians. Story by the great @Haroon_Siddique. @ChtyCommission theguardian.com/society/2025/j…
A terrific piece - the point about nostalgia is spot on.
I've written for the Guardian on Labour's nostalgia for the warfare state @kingshistory @KingsCBH theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Mr Beast "reflects a world in which people are isolated subjects of vast economic mechanisms. Competing for deliverance from their personal financial torments." theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/… @mrkocnnll on how dopamine became the sigh of the oppressed creature.
Good chart @LukeTryl . Flow of 2024 non voters to Reform is significant. ‘Non voters’ in eastern England, had big impact on Brexit referendum. ‘The thing about non voters is they don’t vote’ is the most wrong and strategically inept phrase in UK politics.
Next week marks a year since the 2024 election was called heralding the end of Rishi Sunak's Government. But do people prefer Starmer's Government or Sunak's? Overall people are split 36% preferred Sunak's, 31% Starmer's & a sizeable 33% don't know - with big partisan splits.
Next week marks a year since the 2024 election was called heralding the end of Rishi Sunak's Government. But do people prefer Starmer's Government or Sunak's? Overall people are split 36% preferred Sunak's, 31% Starmer's & a sizeable 33% don't know - with big partisan splits.
We gave evidence at the Work and Pensions Select Committee today, alongside @Dis_PPL_Protest, @scope and @Rethink_. We spoke about the punitive nature of the benefits system, and how proposed cuts will only ever make that worse. 'These cuts are going to lead to deaths'
'When the white working class started peeling off from New Labour, Peter Mandelson declared they had nowhere else to go. Except now they do. They can choose Reform, while brown working-class voters can plump for Independents or Greens.' @chakrabortty theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
It’s now confirmed that Toby Carvery did indeed fell the Whitewebbs Oak, on the same day that evidence is emerging the tree may have been 500 years old. The lame excuse they gave that the tree was “dead” is not only false (ecologists have found green buds on the felled branches)…
Very disturbing reports today that a nationally significant ancient oak (over 6 metres in circumference) was felled in Whitewebbs Park in Tottenham. The facts are still not clear about who did it & why, but it appears to be on land owned by LB Enfield who did not give permission,…
Here’s Rachel Shabi on the Labour Left Podcast talking about her excellent new book. youtu.be/GAJ9KMnxKGQ?si…
'Even now, a Middle East policy specialist told me, Britain’s Labour government is still treating this apocalyptic war as “a minor little conflict in which the odd person gets killed”.' A powerful piece that does not succumb to despair, by @rachshabi
If Israel’s allies don’t act now, Gaza will be lost as Palestinians are killed – directly or through starvation and disease – or forced onto a patch of the strip, a process the Israeli journalist Meron Rapoport summed up in two words: ‘concentration camp’ rachelshabi.substack.com/p/end-point
If anything, the rise of Independent candidates is a response to pre-existing sectarian voting which benefited Labour. Labour approached minority communities through so-called 'community leaders' who could deliver a bloc vote through family networks. x.com/Taj_Ali1/statu…
We cannot ignore the toxic 'biradri' clan-based politics plaguing towns like Luton, Bradford and Birmingham. This is a taboo that many would like to brush under the carpet but as young British Pakistani, I believe it is harming our own community the most. 🧵
"A Labour government, really?": my Guardian analysis on yesterday's disability benefit cuts announcement theguardian.com/society/2025/m…
📢New @jrf_uk analysis There is no way to cut £5bn from PIP without affecting people with problems feeding and clothing themselves or getting around everyday A govt that vowed to end the 'moral scar' of foodbank use shouldn't leave disabled people at greater risk of needing one
@jrf_uk has analysed caseload data and can see much of the forecast growth in PIP spending is directed at people with significant difficulties across a range of areas. Over half of the growth in spending is from people in receipt of the higher rate in both PIP elements.
Benefits cuts now? What’s the point of a Labour MP who votes for something so cruel, tin-eared and short-sighted? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Are we a 'high welfare' country where we pay people too much not to work, meaning the government could save billions by slashing welfare, no harm done? Erm - not exactly. This chart compares us with other countries. Of 34 advanced economies, we're 3rd from the bottom.
🇬🇧🎹🎭🏁 Dudley Moore Visiting his Parents. Baron Road ,Dagenham #BecontreeEstate #EssexThing #Maserati @ValenceHouse
Do #lettingagents accept #tenants who claim #benefits? Do they hell. Here are some recordings with agents who make that clear whovotedforthis.buzzsprout.com/2414550/episod… @cjayanetti @chakrabortty @Shelter #housing #Homeless #nodss #universalcredit #rentersrights
right wing "style" accounts on here never say anything substantive about style. they just photos like this and write "the subtle touch of silk. the strength of man. classic architecture. deport immigrants."
In case you missed it: Macmillan Cancer Support sacks a quarter of staff and scraps hardship scheme for financially struggling patients as it battles financial pressures theguardian.com/society/2025/f…… By Andy Gregory and me