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John Harris

John Harris is a Guardian columnist, who writes on subjects including politics, popular culture and music

July 2024

  • Keir Starmer at a Labour campaign event in Milton Keynes, 1 July 2024

    Travelling round Britain, I found it at a crossroads between fury and hope. Which way will Labour take us?

    John Harris
  • Photograph: JUSTIN TALLIS

    Politics Weekly UK
    Labour wins a landslide: Is this a new dawn? Politics Weekly UK - podcast

  • Parliamentary election in Britain<br>Incoming British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria arrive at Number 10 Downing Street, following the results of the election, in London, Britain, July 5, 2024. REUTERS/Phil Noble

    Today in Focus
    Politics Weekly UK – Labour wins a landslide: Is this a new dawn?

  • On a non-stop road and rail trip, John Harris and John Domokos go from Rishi Sunak's well to-do seat in Yorkshire via County Durham and Lanarkshire to arrive amidst the new-town community spirit of Milton Keynes on election day. Everywhere people are holding places together: will a victorious Labour party soak up those vibes?

    18:49

    Anywhere but Westminster
    So what does the future look like now? | Anywhere but Westminster - video

  • Politics Weekly UK
    On the road in Redcar: can Labour offer fresh hope? – podcast

  • Lacking hope, desperate for change: the UK towns devastated by Tory rule

June 2024

  • Illustration by Nathalie Lees

    Prepare for the toppling of private school politics – and a cultural change within Westminster

    John Harris
  • In the third episode of a new series of Anywhere but Westminster, John Harris and John Domokos travel around the West Midlands, and find a fascinating political mixture: hesitant Labour voters, a new crop of independents focused on Palestine and local cuts&nbsp; – and, amid deep social problems, lots of people who think the election hardly&nbsp;matters. Here, it seems, is the reality that all those opinion polls get nowhere near

    16:24

    Anywhere but Westminster
    Here's what you find under Labour's 'landslide': doubters, abstainers and independents - video

  • Richard Tice and Nigel Farage

    Politics Weekly UK
    On the road in Boston: Why is this a Reform UK target? - podcast

  • Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer with Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar (left) during a visit to Bathgate, West Lothian.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Talk of Labour supermajority ‘nonsense’, says party’s Scotland leader – as it happened

  • I’ve seen all the ‘landslide’ polls – but they can’t tell us what’s really going on in this election

    John Harris
  • Anywhere but Westminster
    Why are the Tories collapsing? These true-blue towns know the answers - video

  • Politics Weekly UK
    On the road in Chingford and Woodford Green – Politics Weekly UK - podcast

  • The election is farcical and frustrating, but deeply significant – under Labour things really could get better

    John Harris
  • Vinyl came back from the dead – and so did the bootleggers: inside the booming business of knock-off records

  • Anywhere but Westminster
    This Labour city backed Brexit and went Tory: what did it get in return? - video

  • When even Surrey’s middle classes are this angry with the Tories, you know it’s all gone wrong for Sunak

    John Harris
  • Politics Weekly UK
    The ‘blue wall’ road trip: Tories jumping ship? Politics Weekly UK – podcast

  • A guide to ADHD and autism
    ‘He is thriving now; a different child’: the battle to educate neurodivergent pupils

May 2024

  • Two dinghies crowded with people wearing lifejackets

    Politics Weekly UK
    The Rwanda bill effect – Politics Weekly UK – podcast

    The government’s safety of Rwanda bill finally passed into law in April. But, with the announcement last week of a general election, the Conservative ‘dream’ of deportation flights taking off might never happen. So what has the bill achieved? And what does it mean for those it has targeted? The Guardian’s John Harris hears what life is really like for migrants in the UK
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