Aditya Chakrabortty

Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist and the Guardian's senior economics commentator
October 2025

Ministers can raise taxes if they come out fighting. But no one in this cowardly Labour government seems able
Aditya ChakraborttyAhead 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
September 2025
February 2025

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














