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Martin Kettle

Martin Kettle is a Guardian associate editor and columnist

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

May 2024

  • David Soar (Fasolt), Oleg Davydov (Fafner), Patricia Bardon (Fricka), Matthias Klink (Loge) and Omer Kobiljak (Froh) in Das Rheingold at Zürich Opera.

    No gimmicks, no clutter: Zürich Opera’s is a Ring cycle to cherish

  • Rishi Sunak Announces Date Of The UK General Election<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 22: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, returns inside No.10 after announcing the date for the UK General Election at Downing Street on May 22, 2024 in London, England. After much speculation across the UK media today, Sunak announces the UK General Election will be held on July 4th. (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)

    A humiliating election speech, with little to offer. Sunak’s USP was competence – what of that now?

    Martin Kettle
  • Royal visit to the Royal Opera House<br>Sir Antonio Pappano at a special Gala performance for him at the Royal Opera House in London in tribute to out-going music director. Picture date: Thursday May 16, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story ROYAL King. Photo credit should read: Isabel Infantes/PA Wire

    Antonio Pappano Gala review – farewell concert celebrates the best thing that has happened to the Royal Opera

  • Illustration: Ellie Foreman-Peck

    Our democracy desperately needs a reset – and, behind the scenes, that’s the plan

    Martin Kettle

  • If Keir Starmer isn’t careful, Gaza could do for him what the Iraq war did for Blair

    Martin Kettle

  • The SNP failed as an activist party. If it becomes a competent governing force, it may have a chance

    Martin Kettle

April 2024

  • Worth waiting for … Svetlana Sozdateleva, Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

    Götterdämmerung review – Jurowski’s six-year completion of Wagner’s Ring cycle was well worth the wait

    Jurowski’s attention to detail across four-and-a-half hours brought the darkness of Wagner’s score thrillingly to life
  • UK's Liberal Democrats Leader Ed Davey Unveils New Campaign In Guildford<br>GUILDFORD, ENGLAND - JANUARY 03: Liberal democrat supporters wait in the rain for the arrival of the Party Leader Ed Davey on January 03, 2024 in Guildford, England. Ed Davey revealed a new campaign poster as he launched a tour of Surrey seats and held a rally with activists in Guildford. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

    Frank Field saw benefit in the Lib Dems. In this election year, Labour would be wise to do the same

    Martin Kettle
    The late elder statesman understood the need for a progressive realignment of British politics. That prize shouldn’t be lost, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

    • Lucia di Lammermoor review – a vocally breathtaking, disturbing to witness descent into madness

    • Starmer can’t dodge the Europe question for ever. In office, the economy will answer it for him

      Martin Kettle

    • Let’s stop talking about ‘great’ Britain – and rebrand ourselves as a different sort of country

      Martin Kettle
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