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There is a disconnect between the UK’s main two political parties and their supporters – and its origins go back much further than the past few years, says Andy Beckett

Keir Starmer will need broad support to undertake a ‘decade of renewal’ in office. This sordid episode suggests he won’t have it, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

Memoirs from Neneh Cherry and Rebel Wilson, Colm Tóibín’s sequel to Brooklyn and a departure for Ali Smith – the biggest fiction and nonfiction for the year ahead