
The Lib Dems are love-bombing them, Labour are scared by them – the Greens are on the rise
How do you solve a problem like the Green Party? Their surge in support is giving all the parties…
ByHow do you solve a problem like the Green Party? Their surge in support is giving all the parties…
ByWho wears a watch now? There’s a Luddite stubbornness to their persistence when the smartphone has taken over their…
ByNo tactical voting for me. I shall support Labour in the European elections. The ambiguity of Jeremy Corbyn’s position…
ByIt takes an awful lot of work to be abused. After the week I have had, being subject again…
ByLast week I found myself in a tent in the Oxfordshire countryside, talking about the art of the political…
ByNothing captures Westminster’s imagination like a contest for a job opening that doesn’t yet exist. Just ask any of…
ByFive hundred and forty three minutes. Nine hours. It’s around the time it would take you to fly from…
ByFireplace salesman Gavin Williamson deserved to be sacked for what he confessed to telling a Daily Torygraph journalist during…
ByIn its most recent economic and fiscal outlook, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that the two greatest potential…
ByThere hasn’t been a mainstream American comedy as perfect as Bridesmaids since, well, Bridesmaids. The 2011 film about a…
ByIs there a greater wasted opportunity in theatre than the character of Linda Loman played deadly straight? It used…
BySandra Newman’s new novel seems at first glance to be a marketing department’s dream – star-crossed lovers! Time travel!…
ByRussell T Davies has said that his new series, Years and Years, is hard to describe succinctly, and that this…
ByOne million, one billion, one trillion. Humans are not good at judging the size of large numbers and don’t…
ByDo you wanna yonna? That’s the question at the start of Birds of Passage, as Zaida (Natalia Reyes) emerges…
BySome years ago, deep in the process of writing a novel, At Hawthorn Time, I decided to walk a…
ByJeanette Winterson was born in Manchester in 1959 and raised by adoptive Pentecostal parents. When she came out as…
ByThe last time I was at a football match in France was in 1971 when Spurs were playing Nantes…
ByIn 1998, the Lancet published controversial research by Andrew Wakefield that suggested a link between combined measles, mumps and…
ByIt’s never clear why you suddenly want to do things you’ve never done before, but this year, at my…
ByOur house has many corkscrews, which will come as no surprise. Only three occasions give the corkscrew the night off in…
ByAnd now to Brighton. I stayed in London for a few days; rather fewer days than I thought I was going…
ByCould the placebo effect work in surgery? When a doctor wanted to investigate – by opening patients up but…
ByGlobal population boom may now be turning to population bust. The consequences, for better or worse, will shape our…
ByIf the Brexit crisis triggers an early election, it could wipe out the new group before it can establish…
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