Gary Younge
Columnist
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WorldJanuary 31, 2023
Britain’s Winter of Discontent
If unions here are weaker and smaller than in Margaret Thatcher’s day, their strikes are also far more popular.
Gary Younge
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TelevisionJanuary 23, 2023
The Strange Thrills of “The Crown”
While the infighting and personal lives of the British royals is boring, their desperate struggle to protect the monarchy makes for fine television.
Gary Younge
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Economic PolicyOctober 21, 2022
Leaderless, Rudderless Britain Is at the Mercy of Desperate Conservatives
Liz Truss was a hopeless, incompetent leader. But the temptation of a return to the discredited certainties of free-market dogma proved impossible for her party to resist.
Gary Younge
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World LeadersSeptember 6, 2022
Meet Liz Truss, Britain’s New Conservative Prime Minister
With the Labour Party tacking toward the center, the role of actually opposing this new Thatcher wannabe has fallen on an increasingly militant, confident, articulate, and strategic union movement.
Gary Younge
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EuropeJuly 7, 2022
Boris Johnson’s Downfall Also Marks Brexit’s Final Act
A potent combination of sex, booze, and lies finally turned the British prime minister’s narcissism, contempt for truth, and blatant disregard for convention from personality traits into political liabilities.
Gary Younge
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World LeadersJune 24, 2022
Boris Johnson’s Days Are Numbered
The Tory prime minister’s ethical lapses are legion, constant, and shocking.
Gary Younge
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Racism and DiscriminationApril 4, 2022
Black Like Me? “Bridgerton” and the Fantasy of a Non-Racist Past
We can imagine a world where the only thing wrong with racial inequality is that non-white people are not allowed to share in the spoils of empire—but would we really want to live in it?
Gary Younge
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World LeadersFebruary 3, 2022
It’s Boris’s Party and Apparently He Can Booze if He Wants To
The interim report into British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s flagrant disregard of his own lockdown rules was devastating. But that doesn’t mean he’ll be forced out of office. At least, not yet.
Gary Younge
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Racism and DiscriminationNovember 29, 2021
Giving Josephine Baker a Hero’s Grave Won’t Bury the Truth…
About France’s republican racism.
Gary Younge
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WorldMay 7, 2021
Under New Leadership, Britain’s Labour Party Loses Again
Labour’s defeat in Hartlepool and in local elections across the country suggests the northern working class isn’t coming back any time soon.
Gary Younge