he Christmas spirit has certainly been visiting the comms advisers of Westminster. This week’s PMQs was packed full of ...

What the party will not do, they say, is take eye-catching but ultimately self-defeating positions. The Lib Dems still bear ...

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A self-proclaimed “troublemaker” who has been called “the Rupert Murdoch of Asia”, Lai’s vertiginous rise and his subsequent ...

Every consensus looks permanent until it suddenly isn’t. As Margaret Thatcher ascended, Labour consoled itself that she ...

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A new row is brewing in the Labour party, this time over funding for councils. MPs are concerned that a new funding formula ...

The anti-Semitic terror attack on Bondi Beach has dispelled the myth that the country is a sanctuary from the world ...

Aside from being an indictment of the quality of ideas around, this says a lot about Britain’s failure to reckon with its ...

The case of the Coughing Major seems to me to be the seed that planted the great artificial tree of True Grift, a genre that ...

ack in 2015, Andy Burnham told me of the Labour leadership: “I’m not planning to run again – this will be the second time. I ...

efore you see the news, there’s been a shooting in Bondi Beach. I am absolutely fine and safe in the hills xxx” ...