Hugh Muir
Executive Editor, Opinion at The Guardian
Hugh Muir is executive editor (opinion) at The Guardian. He occasionally writes columns on politics, race, social policy and policing. Broadcasts a bit.
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Jan 9, 2025 |
msn.com | Hugh Muir
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Dec 30, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Hugh Muir
Let’s start with an impression. Move towards the window, shake your fist and yell “Aaaaargh”. Then “Waaaaaaaah!” Now scream “Grrrrrrrrrrrr … I don’t believe it”. Well done, that’s the cry of the rightwing Tory/Reformite bird today, reacting to the news that London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, has received a knighthood. We all do it a bit. There never was an honours list to delight everyone.
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Nov 3, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Hugh Muir
Benjamin Zephaniah did it. So did Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. Howard Gayle, the pioneering black footballer, did it without a second thought.Britain, keen to highlight their achievements as outstanding citizens who have made a notable contribution to how we live, dangled the recognition of a state-backed honour in front of each of them. And each, ultimately unable to reconcile the link between those honours and the misty-eyed evocation in the title of Britain’s brutal empire, said “no thanks”.
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Jul 4, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Hugh Muir
Gradually, then suddenly. That is how Ernest Hemingway famously described a character’s bankruptcy. That was how the 14-year Tory hegemony of Britain came to a brutal end. If the exit poll released on the stroke of 10pm is even half right, this is less a changing of the executive, more a punishment beating – and one that is well deserved. A 170-seat majority for Keir Starmer and his refashioned Labour party, which is projected to land 410 seats. A drubbing for the Tories, pegged back to 131.
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Jul 4, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Hugh Muir
It started with dark comedy. The sight of Rishi Sunak, behind the podium at No 10, drenched by the rain – a drowned rat in a sharp suit, drowned out by a hostile loudspeaker, bellowing out the fact of his sudden-death election – belonged to vaudeville. The race itself : “poor, nasty, brutish and short”.
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