Michael White is the Guardian's former political editor, assistant editor, columnist and foreign correspondent. He wrote for the Guardian for more than 30 years
Heather Stewart and Rafael Behr look at domestic concern over the India coronavirus variant and three former political editors of the Guardian discuss how the job has changed over the years
9 July 1996: The public Heath has never been easily lovable and all those efforts to humanise a very private man, as musician, yachtsman, even as Father of the Commons, have never quite worked
30 June 1972: The much-maligned Alice Cooper band is about to perform at the Empire Pool, Wembley. At the weekend their bandwagon rolled into Pittsburgh and Michael White flew over to hear them