Anne Perkins
Anne Perkins is a writer and broadcaster, and former Guardian correspondent
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The Labour MP’s speech on high and low earners woke up the Commons – and social media has given it a powerful afterlife, says the writer and broadcaster Anne PerkinsThe secret to Jess Phillips’s great political speech? Wit and authenticity
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Question Time is broken – here are five ways to fix itWe live in serious times, yet the BBC’s flagship political debate show is filled with whooping mobs looking for confrontation. This is what needs to be done
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A Whitehall official’s pronouncement in 1994 reflects an age-old problem, says Anne Perkins, former Guardian correspondent‘Email will never catch on’: why are we so bad at predicting the future?
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Handing out prizes for cowardly cut-and-run resignations is no laughing matter, says the Guardian’s former deputy political editor Anne PerkinsThe Spectator's parliamentary awards confirm that UK politics is a joke -
No solution to Britain’s health and social care crisis is possible until they can be accessed on equal terms, says former Guardian deputy political editor Anne PerkinsWhy raising national insurance for the over-40s won’t fix social care -
Equality in pension age will not magically deliver equal pay or lifelong earnings power – the new rules entrench unfairness, says Anne Perkins, former deputy political editor of the GuardianThis isn’t pension equality. This is a clear injustice to older women -
Demand is down, supply is up – something had to give and now universities are on the brink. It’s all so avoidable, says Anne PerkinsA bankrupt university was inevitable once market forces took hold
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Sentimental versions of our island story are a handicap when it comes to deciding Britain’s future, writes Guardian columnist Anne PerkinsA Dad’s Army-style Brexit looms. ‘Don’t panic!’
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Labour’s deputy leader forgets that 1926 paved the way for electoral victory, says the Guardian’s former deputy political editor Anne PerkinsTom Watson is wrong: 1926’s general strike wasn’t an ‘absolute failure’
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It will take more than a tweak of land supply mechanics to fix the housing mess, says Anne Perkins, a former deputy political editor of the GuardianThe housing crisis will not be solved by curbing speculation alone -
Could it be that the pet-owning environment secretary recognises our understanding of animals is radically changing, asks former Guardian leader writer Anne PerkinsMichael Gove’s puppy-farm ban shows he gets the politics of pets -
Pay for the top 1% is astounding. An American-style approach is making it worse, says Guardian columnist Anne PerkinsThe soaraway super-rich shame British politics – and our politicians -
The Allbright is a networking club for businesswomen – so why has it picked a male chair?Men are picked over women for senior positions all the time, but Allan Leighton’s appointment is a spectacular own goal
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Olly Robbins: steely operator fighting on the Brexit frontlinePM’s human shield is used to taking hits for his masters – but is he dangerously exposed?



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