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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

How can the UK protect its critical national infrastructure from cyberattacks? Ransomware, hostile state actors and AI-enabled attacks are changing the threat landscape Cyberattacks on the UK’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Uniting capital and labour is easier in rhetoric than in government By Vladimir Bortun After weeks of growing scrutiny over the £5m gift received from the Thailand-based billionaire Christopher ...