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Aditya Chakrabortty

Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist and the Guardian's senior economics commentator

October 2025

  • Clockwise from top Left: Tony Blair, George Osborne, Rachel Reeves, Gordon Brown

    Ministers can raise taxes if they come out fighting. But no one in this cowardly Labour government seems able

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    Ahead of the budget, Rachel Reeves should be out making her arguments. Instead, there is silence – and a huge opportunity for Labour’s opponents, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
  • 17/10/2025 London.  Eunice who works as a cleaner for the railways. She has been stuck ifor three years in a HMO ,that is not licensed, a single room  that has mold and rodent infestations  and is generally unsafe.  She was put there by the council  with a landlord the council had previously taken to court and won.  Story by  Aditya Chakrabortty . Photo Sean Smith

    The crimewave sweeping Britain? Illegal houses in multiple occupation

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    With private-sector villainy and public-sector complicity, what makes this HMO scandal so characteristic of modern Britain is how far the guilt spreads, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
    • A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal

      Aditya Chakrabortty
    • Worried about rising bills and getting by? Keir Starmer has the answer: try chewing a flag!

      Aditya Chakrabortty
    • Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet?

      Aditya Chakrabortty

September 2025

  • Illustration: Bill Bragg

    Special relationship? There can be no such thing with a snake like Trump

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Illustration: Sébastien Thibault

    It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage

    Aditya Chakrabortty

February 2025

  • Illustration by Danielle Rhoda

    Call it Thatcher’s timebomb: the great council housing selloff, a crisis hidden in plain sight

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    Her right to buy policy enriched the private sector at taxpayers’ expense. Last year, it sparked another gold rush – and looming calamity for local authorities, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

January 2025

  • Illustration of red aeroplane with logos 'Growth' and 'Labair'

    Labour’s plan for ‘growth’ won’t take off, but it will leave ordinary people behind

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Illustration: Bill Bragg

    Liz Truss is long gone from Downing Street – but zombie economics lives on

    Aditya Chakrabortty

December 2024

  • Illustration by Bill Bragg

    All Starmer’s failings play into the hands of Farage – the prime minister is the gift that keeps on giving

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    From rightwing rhetoric to a lack of action on the cost of living crisis, Downing Street is only fuelling the rise of Reform, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

November 2024

  • Former Amazon worker Karolina Sobczak in Mansfield, 20 November 2024

    Chronic pain and ravaged mental health: this is the brutal reality of Britain’s new working class

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Composite of Donald Trump and crowd

    Why did voters abandon Kamala Harris? Because they feel trapped – and Trump offered a way out

    Aditya Chakrabortty

October 2024

  • Illustration: Danielle Rhoda/The Guardian

    At last, a government willing to spend – but this budget will expose it to two great dangers

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Kamala Harris boards Air Force Two at Bishop international airport in Flint, Michigan, 4 October 2024.

    This is the future for Kamala Harris: unless she solves this economic mystery, Trump wins

    Aditya Chakrabortty

September 2024

  • Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves at the conclusion of the chancellor’s speech to the Labour conference in Liverpool.

    Britain wants spending and a better NHS, not this obsession with growth. That’s why there’s big trouble ahead

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Illustration: Ben Jennings

    Two tribes are at war for the Tory leadership. How to choose? Let me help

    Aditya Chakrabortty

August 2024

  • Illustration: Eleanor shakespeare

    If Starmer and Reeves think they have a foolproof strategy – wait until winter comes

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Illustration: Bill Bragg/The Guardian

    The cynical spectre of Osbornomics is haunting the Labour party

    Aditya Chakrabortty

July 2024

  • Illustration: Ellie Foreman-Peck

    It was a landslide election but this much is clear: neither Labour nor the Tories stand on solid ground

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    We know Starmer is in No 10, the Tories in disarray but what lies beneath should worry the entire political class, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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