At least Nixon could sober up. Trump is a lunatic every hour he is awake At least we don’t have a borderline sociopath in charge Also this week: late nights with ER, and longing for the moral optimism ...

The insurgent party has provoked another argument in Labour about who its core voters are By Ethan Croft Labour remains at odds over the Green challenge as the clock ticks down to election day on 7 ...

Restore Britain says its local elections campaign is “history in the making” By Ethan Croft How seriously should Reform and the Tories take the new “third force” on the British right? Those who avoid ...

Forty-one days later, the mullahs are still in control, Iran is charging a toll for ships to pass through the Strait, and ...

Can the Lib Dems fight off a Green challenge? Both parties would like to be seen as the progressive alternative to Labour By Ethan Croft In Westminster it is eerily quiet as the parties scatter to the ...

François Ozon subtly updates The Stranger and its author’s attitudes to French colonialism By David Sexton Albert Camus’s 1942 debut novel, L’Étranger, remains one of the three most widely read ...

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James Meadway is an economist. He hosts the weekly economics podcast, Macrodose. We have become a precariat nation From Jeremy Corbyn to the Gaza independents, a new force is stirring in politics. The ...

In his new book, Reform’s in-house academic set out to articulate his ideas. He produced trash By John Merrick Let’s get this out of the way early: Matt Goodwin’s new vanity press-published book, ...

The US and Israel’s illegal attack on Iran will provoke a global economic catastrophe By Isabella Weber and Gregor Semieniuk Do you remember the days when the world already knew that there was a Covid ...

Reform launched their Scottish manifesto yesterday. The party is aiming to set itself up as the prime beneficiary of a Tory collapse north of the border, which was apparently foreshadowed by last year ...