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  Hugo Young's meetings with Gordon Brown

  Nov 17 2008:

  Exclusive extracts from a new book of Hugo Young's private papers lay bare the alliances, rivalries and hatreds that followed the 1997 election

• Duly noted

  Nov 17 2008:

  In more than 30 years as a journalist, Hugo Young met everyone who mattered in British politics - and recorded every encounter. These exclusive extracts from a new book of his private papers lay bare the alliances, rivalries and hatreds that followed the 1997 election. Introduction by David McKie

• Inside track

  Nov 15 2008:

  When Hugo Young died he left behind detailed notes of 30 years of conversations with the stars of the political scene. They are now to be published. Here we present an exclusive extract, covering the early years of New Labour

• Bob Geldof, prince of darkness

  Jul 18 2008:

  From the archive, July 18 1985: Governments, none more than this one, believe their voters to be bottomlessly mean. They tend to take a dim view of people all round, but in giving aid to poor countries their estimation is at its lowest

• Hugo Young memorial lecture: part two

  Oct 21 2004: Philip Stephens of the Financial Times delivered the first Hugo Young memorial lecture at Chatham House on October 20 in honour of the Guardian's great political commentator, who died last year. Stephens chose as his subject: Britain and Europe - unforgettable past, unavoidable future. This is the second and final part of a full text of his lecture

• Hugo Young memorial lecture

  Oct 21 2004: Philip Stephens of the Financial Times delivered the first Hugo Young memorial lecture at Chatham House on October 20 in honour of the Guardian's great political commentator, who died last year. Stephens chose as his subject: Britain and Europe - unforgettable past, unavoidable future. This is a full text of his lecture.

• A voice of relentless independence

  Sep 24 2003:

  Peter Preston: Hugo Young was a fine journalist, a good human being, and a friend to everyone who picks up this paper and feels a pang of sorrow at his loss.

• Outsider on the inside track

  Sep 24 2003:

  Alan Rusbridger: Hugo Young never forgot why he was there: not to make friends or amiably to chew the political cud, but to report and to explain. Those were, he thought, the functions of a columnist, first and last.

• It is as an outsider that I write

  Sep 24 2003: Hugo Young, 1938-2003: He didn't write for politicians, but he couldn't avoid being read by them

• He left us with a burst of brilliant fury

  Sep 24 2003: I'm deeply grieved at Hugo Young's death. What a terrible loss to his family and friends, to your paper, to journalism, to politics, to society and to high standards everywhere.

• Prime minister leads tributes to Hugo Young

  Sep 23 2003:

  Tony Blair today led tributes to the Guardian newspaper columnist Hugo Young, who died last night, aged 64.

• 'No dogma of any kind interfered with his concept of duty'

  Sep 23 2003:

  In all he did, Hugo Young was a gracious and lucid guardian of "civilised values". His friendships were enduring because of his warmth, his sense of comedy, his integrity, and his remarkable tolerance for those who did not know what silly mid-off was.

• Under Blair, Britain has ceased to be a sovereign state

  Sep 16 2003: Hugo Young: At last we see the consequences of our country's abject thrall to the US.

• Blair will never resign if it means Brown gets his job

  Sep 9 2003: Hugo Young: The greater the pressure on the PM, the more determined he will be to stay.

• How Tony Blair climbed the foothills of the big lie

  Sep 2 2003: Hugo Young: The Hutton inquiry is a brilliant distraction from the real issues of war.

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