👤 Richard Partington

8 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
8
2026-09-15 – 2026-10-28
Claims per article
35
282 extracted in total
Hedged claims
13%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
6,010
characters
Writes for The Guardian.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Economy/Business
75%
Politics
25%
Most-tagged topics
LabourIranBritainGuardianAmazonAppleBank of EnglandCommons

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
6 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.31 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-15 · The Guardian · Economy/Business
US borrowing costs hit 5% for first time since 2023 amid bond sell-off
7 outlets covered this event
2026-10-28 · The Guardian · Economy/Business
Budget 2026: Healey hikes taxes on banks and landlords to fund £100 handouts to 20m households
6 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-19 · The Guardian · Economy/Business
Profit warnings from UK-listed firms at highest level in two years as Iran war drives up costs
3 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-01 · The Guardian · Economy/Business
Healey urged to offer energy support in budget as bills rise 4%
3 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-13 · The Guardian · Economy/Business
UK high street bosses urge chancellor to cut cost of employing young people
2 outlets covered this event · leans right
2026-10-24 · The Guardian · Politics
Most levelling up projects still unfinished years after funding allocated
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left

What they said would happen

2026-09-15 · The Guardian
US borrowing costs hit 5% for first time since 2023 amid bond sell-off
🔮 Traders in the kingdom have warned it will run out of oil stocks for export if it does not reopen the east-west pipeline within days. assertive
2026-09-20 · The Guardian
Are global stock markets heading for a crash?
🔮 Powered by the AI revolution, the US stock market had rallied to a fresh all-time high, as investors bet the multitrillion-dollar investment spree would overshadow the hit from the Iran war. assertive
2026-10-01 · The Guardian
Healey urged to offer energy support in budget as bills rise 4%
🔮 In his speech at Labour’s conference in Liverpool this week, the chancellor warned that the government had limited resources to cushion the worldwide economic shocks hitting Britain, while arguing his budget would have fiscal discipline at its core. assertive
2026-10-13 · The Guardian
UK high street bosses urge chancellor to cut cost of employing young people
🔮 They want the Nics threshold raised to £6,000, arguing this would help create jobs and ease inflation pressures on high streets. assertive
2026-10-19 · The Guardian
Profit warnings from UK-listed firms at highest level in two years as Iran war drives up costs
🔮 In a development that would honour a promise made by Andy Burnham in his Makerfield byelection campaign before entering Downing Street, the planned change, first reported by the Sunday Times, would result in the threshold at which small firms start paying business rates rising from £12,000 to £18,000. assertive
2026-10-22 · The Guardian
Save high street by taxing online sales at higher rate, Burnham urged
🔮 The measure could raise up to an extra £1bn by forcing them to collect VAT on behalf of large-scale sellers based in the UK as well as those overseas. assertive
2026-10-24 · The Guardian
Most levelling up projects still unfinished years after funding allocated
🔮 Data released under freedom of information laws and manually reviewed by the Guardian found 821 levelling up projects out of 1,347 were yet to be finalised as of May this year. assertive
2026-10-28 · The Guardian
Budget 2026: Healey hikes taxes on banks and landlords to fund £100 handouts to 20m households
🔮 John Healey raised taxes on banks and landlords to fund a £100 winter handout for 20 million families as official forecasts made clear there is no end in sight for the cost of living crisis. assertive
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