The murder of Ann Widdecombe has one lesson: both left and right need to detoxify our public discourse ...

Andy Burnham is the new leader of the Labour party after the results of the party’s uncontested leadership election were announced on Friday (17 July) afternoon. In a speech to the party faithful at ...

With Marine Le Pen now free to run in next year’s election, France is entering uncharted political territory By Julian ...

Nigel Farage is facing his biggest challenge since he became an MP two years ago after a string of revelations about his ...

Culture change will require some “heads on spikes”, as one insider puts it By Ailbhe Rea Tony Blair had some advice for his younger self this week, speaking at his eponymous institute’s glitzy summer ...

When I stood against him, I realised he had no interest in serving his “people” By Jovan Owusu-Nepaul Not many people thought we could actually win in Clacton. At the 2019 election, when Boris Johnson ...

Can we move past our decade of failure? By Tom McTague In his later life, travelling on the train home one day, the former Conservative Party leader Alec Douglas-Home was approached by an elderly lady ...

Is there any scandal that can stop Nigel Farage? The antics of “Posh George” just don’t matter to some voters By Ben Walker Nigel Farage is in the news again over his financial affairs. A report from ...

After Exeter’s announcement that it will cut 150 academic jobs, is there any hope for higher education? By Ella Dorn The sleepy city of Exeter has become the locus of the country’s fraught battle over ...

I have spent my life interpreting capitalism in order to build an alternative By David Harvey In November 2008, at the height of the global financial crisis, Queen Elizabeth visited the London School ...

The PM-in-waiting is using this brief interregnum to articulate his project By Ailbhe Rea Who is providing the ideas for the Andy Burnham machine? The answer might shock you. After years of political ...

Burnham believes the government has afforded the market too much power By Will Dunn The front pages of the Financial Times, Bloomberg, the Times and others this morning all refer to Andy Burnham’s ...