A year-long investigation into medical transition treatment at WellBN found “wholly inadequate” care By Hannah Barnes Children as young as 12 have been prescribed masculinising and feminising hormones ...

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“Burnham ahead in Makerfield”, blasts the Survation headline. It’s what many expected after his announcement a few weeks ago. An Andy Burnham candidacy was always likely to propel Labour well beyond ...

Long before “The Serpent in the Grove”, the book industry had turned away from style and towards identity By Thomas Peermohamed Lambert Permit me, briefly, to assemble the evidence for the prosecution ...

Failure to accept even that something has gone wrong left Starmer’s premiership empty Christopher Harborne’s £5m donation is just the tip of the iceberg Also: the electoral wisdom of on-the-ground ...

Would a new PM scrap Shabana Mahmood’s immigration reforms? New research suggests the Home Secretary is not trusted on immigration by Labour voters By Ethan Croft They used to say that, at the Home ...

Should the UK rejoin the EU? Caroline Lucas and Anand Menon weigh in By Caroline Lucas and Anand Menon On 11 May, following the disastrous results of the local elections, Keir Starmer delivered a ...

Inside Andy Burnham’s leadership bid – and the campaigns underway to stop him By Ailbhe Rea As Keir Starmer looked around his cabinet table on Tuesday morning, he met the gazes of people who had told ...

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve star in an unforgettable exploration of soulless cityscapes By David Sexton There’s a back story to Backrooms. Since 2011, a creepy photo has circulated on message ...

Has the party’s battle of ideas come too late? By Megan Kenyon Labour’s war of words has entered its third day. After Tony Blair made a major intervention on Wednesday with almost 6,000 words of ...

The author of Taiwan Travelogue and her translator Lin King speak on making art about a country under threat By Catharine Hughes This week, Taiwan Travelogue, a book rejected multiple times by ...

Nicola Sturgeon’s now estranged husband has brought shame on the SNP By Chris Deerin Peter Murrell was never one for the public eye. He was the archetypal backroom operator, forever lurking in the ...