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The Guardian view on inequality in the UK: what kids can teach us

Editorial: To get a sense of how unfair Britain is, consider the prospects for its children

‘If I have a fault, it’s that I’m too honest’ – Boris Johnson’s Unleashed, digested by John Crace

The former prime minister has given us a thrilling insight into his own narcissism. Can’t face reading it? All the parties, scandals and incompetence are broken down here

Unleashed by Boris Johnson review – regrets? Not even a few

Billed as offering the unfiltered truth about Brexit, Covid, partygate and more, the former prime minister’s brazen memoir is in fact little more than the latest chapter in his bid to present himself as a Churchillian hero

Boris Johnson’s memoir, Unleashed, tops Amazon UK sales list ahead of publication

Sold at half price, the former PM’s apologia of his career has outstripped sales of recent novels by Sally Rooney and Richard Osman

Unleashed by Boris Johnson review – memoirs of a clown

All the fancy verbiage in the world cannot disguise the emptiness at the heart of this self-serving, solipsistic book

From Covid to Kosovo: five things we learned from Boris Johnson’s memoir

Former PM’s doorstop-sized tome, Unleashed, recounts chequered political career in familiar boosterish tone

Malcolm Turnbull condemns UK’s ‘extraordinary’ hypocrisy over Spycatcher affair

Exclusive: Former Australian PM witnessed ‘shocking act of perjury’ and says MI5 are still trying to hide something

Covid, canal raids and May’s nostrils: six key takeaways from Boris Johnson’s memoir

Former PM likens Keir Starmer to ‘a bullock having a thermometer unexpectedly shoved in its rectum’ in Unleashed

Taken As Red by Anushka Asthana review: the story behind Keir Starmer’s path to power

A richly sourced account of Tory dysfunction and Labour’s transformation into an election-winning machine

A Woman Like Me: A Memoir by Diane Abbott review – rich and complex record of resilience

Though vague about her own achievements, Britain’s first Black female MP paints an absorbing picture of her remarkable life and sheer determination in a gossip-free but frank and, at times, funny autobiography

‘Scam and scandal’: ex-aid chief raises alarm over £4bn Tory asylum contracts

The former top civil servant at the Department for International Development has warned a lack of oversight in spending echoes corrupt contracts awarded during Covid

Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart audiobook review – what’s wrong with Westminster

The former Tory MP’s fascinating insider account of the Cameron-May-Johnson premierships offers a scathing portrait of our political system

‘Corbyn had flown too close to the sun’: how Labour insiders battled the left and plotted the party’s path back to power

Exclusive extract from new book says Corbyn’s appearance at Glastonbury was a key moment in the party’s long way back to power. And as one anti-Corbyn group tried to build a moderate coalition, it also needed a credible leader …

The Guardian view on public libraries: these vital spaces provide much more than books

Editorial: Offering everything from coding clubs to company, they are more essential than ever as other services vanish

Truss at 10 by Anthony Seldon review – the leader who made history for all the wrong reasons

This brisk and readable study of our shortest-serving prime minister’s 49 days in office examines her catastrophic mini-budget and the role played by the Institute of Economic Affairs

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