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Martin Fletcher is a New Statesman contributing writer and a former foreign editor of the Times.
Rishi Sunak has lived a gilded life and risen rapidly in politics, but now he is grappling with a once-in-a-century crisis as the country faces recession and even depression.
A new trade deal with the EU this year is now impossible – the Prime Minister should seek an extension to the transition period.
How an initial lone school sit-in galvanised a new global movement.
The UK will tonight leave the most successful experiment in multi-national collaboration the world has ever seen.
Jo Swinson, the Lib Dem leader, began the campaign on a high. But her personal approval ratings have slumped and her party is struggling.
The campaign for a second referendum, led by the PR guru Roland Rudd and former Labour and Lib Dem spin doctors, was the great hope for Remainers – until it collapsed in a chaos of clashing egos, smears and boardroom coups.
This was the silent majority finding its voice, the slow-to-anger rising up against the destruction of their values and their country.
Convinced that the planet faces imminent catastrophe, XR has redefined environmental protest and made the climate emergency front page news.
The Prime Minister describes Britain's institutions as "enemies of the people", while pursuing a strategy that would leave the people impoverished, divided and ridiculed.
Three years after leaving office, and in the midst of a deep political crisis, David Cameron is about to publish a book about his premiership. But can he justify his catastrophic legacy?
