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Martin Kettle

Martin Kettle is a Guardian associate editor and columnist

April 2025

  • Keir Starmer and Donald Trump

    Can we stop pretending a trade deal with Trump will be a gamechanger for the UK. It won’t

    Martin Kettle
  • A conductor wields a baton in front of an orchestra looking at sheet music

    BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo review – Carwithen comes in from the cold

  • Ryan Vaughan Davies as Remendado, Jingwen Cai as Mercédès and Aigul Akhmetshina as Carmen at the Royal Opera House.

    Carmen review – Akhmetshina and Elder make this an outstanding evening

  • Illustration: Bill Bragg

    There are opportunities for Keir Starmer in Trump’s trade chaos. Here’s how he can seize them

    Martin Kettle

  • Aurora Orchestra/Collon review – reduced Mahler still packs a punch

  • Perilous and chaotic, Trump’s ‘liberation day’ endangers the world’s broken economy – and him

    Martin Kettle

March 2025

  • Giving voice to the verses within … Joyce DiDonato and Maxim Emelyanychev.

    DiDonato/Emelyanychev review – ingenious artistry brings Schubert’s bleak Winterreise to life

  • Britten Sinfonia with narrators Louisa Clein and Allan Corduner, conductor Jonathan Berman and tenor James Newby.

    Britten Sinfonia/Berman review – haunting premiere about memories of the Holocaust

  • A scene from Turandot by Giacomo Puccini at the Royal Opera House, London

    Turandot review – with high energy, mighty voices and delicacy, epic staging feels newly minted

  • Keir Starmer hosting a European leaders’ summit at Lancaster House in London, 2 March 2025.

    Europe doesn’t need Trump to form a western alliance – and one is already taking shape

    Martin Kettle

  • Though Starmer’s project is fragile, he’s taking one giant leap: to reconfigure the British state

    Martin Kettle

  • Starmer is at his best right now – but he must accept there is no going back with Trump’s US

    Martin Kettle

February 2025

  • A scene from Il Trovatore

    Il Trovatore review – let’s face it: these Verdi characters are very dull

  • Macron, with a thumb up, shakes hands with Starmer

    Trump might not know it, but he’s forging a new relationship between Britain and the EU

    Martin Kettle
  • GERMANY-POLITICS-VOTE-DEBATE<br>People watch a screen displaying the leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party Friedrich Merz speaking during a TV debate in Berlin on February 16, 2025, ahead of the parliamentary elections due to take place on February 23, 2025. (Photo by Michael Kappeler / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL KAPPELER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

    Hold your breath and look to Germany: its election could decide the fate of Europe – and the UK

    Martin Kettle
  • Siegfried Regents Opera Mime – Holden Madagame Alberich – Oliver Gibbs

    Der Ring des Nibelungen review – less is more in Regents Opera’s whittled-down Wagner

  • Trump’s Gaza plan has staggered the world. Did he mean it? For now, that doesn’t matter

    Martin Kettle

  • LSO/Harding/Trifonov review – nuanced and individual Schumann, then propulsive Mahler

January 2025

  • Campaigners Tanisha Dadar, Idris Elba and Yemi Hughes attend a knife crime summit at 10 Downing Street, 9 September 2024.

    After Southport, Westminster is floundering. It should look to Idris Elba

    Martin Kettle
  • sebastien thibault 250108-opinion web

    It’s the reign of King Donald: now a people who fled cruel monarchs have their own

    Martin Kettle
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