
Michael Heseltine calls for “second referendum or general election” on the Brexit deal
The Tory peer and former deputy prime minister accuses Theresa May of having “flip-flopped” on the “intellectual conviction of the…
ByThe Tory peer and former deputy prime minister accuses Theresa May of having “flip-flopped” on the “intellectual conviction of the…
ByThe former Labour politician and SDP co-founder tells his old party to “face up to reality” and agree to ally…
ByThe Liberal Democrat leader says his party can stop "two massive calamities".
ByThe Labour peer and former home secretary says new members need a “meaningful political education”, and accuses unions of neglecting…
ByThe metropolitan left needs to start acting as if it is even partly as much concerned about Rochdale as…
ByPoliticians have become Iago figures, using passion and rhetoric to drown out the Othellos. Justice and civil rights are being rubbed…
ByJeremy Corbyn is the very opposite of the man the times call for – so progressive politicians need to find…
ByLeavers didn't vote for a malfunctioning, degraded state, but it’s what they’ve got.
ByThe Labour peer and former deputy prime minister laments his party’s “civil war status”, saying “I wish Momentum would…
ByThe former Conservative chair urges fellow Tories to oppose Theresa May's “dogmatic, Trumpian view of where this country's going”.
ByWe asked politicians, cultural figures and activists the burning question for our special issue.
ByThe Labour peer and former cabinet minister accuses his party leader and the shadow Brexit secretary of having “torpedoed Labour’s…
ByFrom the House of Lords to First Past the Post, the Labour Party must seek reforms to return power…
ByCan we trust that new security measures are anti-terrorist and not anti-democracy?
ByMost of the Corbynite agenda can be found in the pages of Britain Can Be Better, the party’s 2015 manifesto.
ByLabour is being kept alive by First Past the Post. For true progress, our voting system must change –…
ByI was unqualified to vote in the EU referendum. So at least now we should hear from experts.
ByEvery hack in town wrote accounts of the attack on Westminster, but I was intrepidly lunching a mile away…
ByTrade unions will be confronted with a painful choice, should Corbyn fight and lose the 2020 election.
ByNo matter what sort of liberal you are, there is another sort of liberal that you are not.
ByTabloid newspapers trivialise and sexualise almost everything.
ByThe balance of forces inside the Labour Party has moved to the left. Can the leadership respond?
ByThere is no parliamentary opposition, and therefore a government that can do what it wants unless it steps on the…
ByThe Elbow singer and 6 Music DJ answers our questions.
ByWithout strong parliamentary leadership and clearer direction from Labour, a broad-based challenge to hard Brexit will be impossible.
ByIan Leslie discovers how the two companies show Silicon Valley’s split personality.
ByThe latest “mega-novel” from the celebrated French author of Zone is heavy on erudition but light on interest.
ByThis adaptation of the influential anime, starring Scarlett Johansson, is short on thrills.
ByOver dinner, S—— tells me of her latest dating woes.
ByIf the economy is not in great shape after two years, public opinion on Brexit could yet shift, says…
ByThe former Liberal Democrat leader says the populist resurgence will be defeated by a liberal backlash.
ByThere is nothing inevitable about the right’s supremacy or a catastrophic Brexit.
ByEveryone knows the dangers of starting a conversation on a long-haul flight, but I felt more inclined towards the…
ByLiberal Britain is not being heard because it speaks incessantly of a past that cannot be retrieved.
ByJohn Burnside on the countryside’s future
BySpeak to any Conservative MP and they will say that there is no opposition. Period.
BySheila Hancock recalls her anti-war activism, from Greenham Common to the Iraq march.
ByI wonder if Brexit is a magic mirror, in which everyone sees what their heart most desires.
BySenior figures from all parties discuss the way forward: a new Labour leader, a new party or something else?
ByMark Cocker discovers the shocking damage caused by modern food production in Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were…
ByIt was surprising to learn that Tim Farron's media team boozed in a Wetherspoons pub in York, when the…
ByThe brightest possible future for him now involves joining one of those sinister US think tanks.
ByThe station seems an odd choice for the carriage drivers, but it’s the one they turn to.
ByThe Brexit victors aren’t addicted to independence. They’re addicted to hatred.
ByBy Roger McGough.
ByThe drama is certainly ripe: all quims and cunnies and special offer hymens.
ByOn 20 June 1988, a group of left-wing novelists, playwrights and thinkers gathered at Antonia Fraser’s house, determined to…
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