
Whoever succeeds Vince Cable as Lib Dem leader inherits a revived party – and no one expected that
When Tim Farron became leader of the Liberal Democrats in 2015, several of his close allies urged him to…
ByWhen Tim Farron became leader of the Liberal Democrats in 2015, several of his close allies urged him to…
ByAs the Conservative Party braced itself for confirmation of the ten candidates for its leadership last Monday, one of…
ByEvery so often a quote will escape from Silicon Valley that, even by the standards of Silicon Valley hubris,…
ByFashioned from 500 hours of the subject’s own private footage, Diego Maradona is a new documentary by the director…
ByThe Conservative Party is politically and intellectually exhausted. It has not won a stable parliamentary majority since 1987 and…
ByLast month, the Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano announced that she’d had enough. “Our reproductive rights are being erased,” she…
ByIn 1975 Paul Johnson published a provocative New Statesman piece in which he lamented the “disintegration of Labour’s intellectual…
ByFollowing her success in the Danish elections, Mette Frederiksen is set to return the Social Democrats to power. This…
ByBrextremist supporters of Boris Johnson are understandably nervous that the narcissist backed remaining in the single market and a…
ByEd Davey is running for the Liberal Democrat leadership and it’s all the fault of an advert in the…
ByPhilip Hammond recently sent a letter to the soon-to-be-ex-prime minister claiming that tackling climate change simply isn’t affordable. The…
ByMidway through the 2019 Reith Lectures. Must stay focused. This year’s speaker is the former Supreme Court justice, QC…
ByMovies inspired by board games have a chequered history. Clue, based on Cluedo, came with lashings of high camp…
ByThe words spoken near the opening of Deadwood: The Movie must – after more than a dozen years since…
ByI’m not sure anyone watches Killing Eve (8 June, 9.15pm) for its cartoony plot, enjoyable as it undoubtedly is.…
ByThe goldfinches haven’t returned to our wisteria this year, but down the road my mother’s birdfeeders have been busy…
ByRichard Melville Hall was born in New York City in 1965 and raised in San Francisco. He began performing…
ByBy mid-morning, a succession of complex patients meant I was running half an hour late. But when I came…
ByBIP. When I first stayed in this place, about a year and a half ago, it had only recently…
ByI went to an excellent university, but the wine I consumed there was rarely of comparable quality. Cambridge’s venerable…
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