It gave the old city an appropriately spooky and uncertain atmosphere. Scotland was waiting, poised, tentatively wondering ...

David Lammy says climate is central to his foreign policy. But his plans will be expensive. Surrounded by a host of tropical ...

Harringay has become home to the quasi-hippy. Where are all the real ones?

The government wants to reset its relationship with organised labour – but history shows this won’t be an easy task.

Voters are losing their sense of what Keir Starmer’s Labour is for. He must use his conference speech to tell them.

The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being ...

Inside the fake news crisis at the community paper.

Party conference season is in full swing and I am in sunny Brighton with the Liberal Democrats. As I walk along the beach I ...

Sue Prideaux’s biography of the unruly French painter shows his story was more complicated than that of colonial seducer.

For while the cash rewards of news ownership may be diminishing, the political rewards are as dazzling as ever. The rutting ...

This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain – has run in the ...

“S umer is icumem in,/Lhude sing cuccu ” – or “Summer is here,/Loudly sing, cuckoo” – are the opening lines of a much-anthologised medieval poem-song. Well, summer is just about done now and we’ve had ...