The conventions and rituals that define the way we do politics rapidly eroded this year – setting the UK on a course into the unknown ...Familiar landmarks have disappeared ... AndyBeckett is a Guardian columnist ... ....
Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we look at the impact of devolution on growing volatility of party political allegiance ... Their verdicts could imperil Labour and Conservative leaders ... ....
Unions have warned their policies would create job losses, and NigelFarage has failed to explain which public services his savage near �300 billion of cuts would focus on ... .
At politically oriented holiday parties all over the state, the hot topic is what Democrats will do in the face of a remarkably successful Republican effort to refer a gas tax increase to the November 2026 ballot that lawmakers passed ....
It has been a year dominated by Donald Trump. It has not yet even been 12 full months since his return to the White House in January but already the changes he has wrought – both in the US and around the world – seemed scarcely conceivable in 2024.