Exclusive: focus groups reveal the values that will determine the by-election By Rachel Cunliffe It has been four weeks since the local elections that sent the Labour Party into an existential spiral, ...

Labour is being told to pick a side in a battle of economic arguments. We say the future will be built from both By Mark McVitie and Mathew Lawrence We are the authors of two arguments recently ...

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 ...

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In the mad world of the British far right, faith and thuggery jostle for attention By Emily Lawford On the road to Parliament Square, men kept stopping Kate to tell her she was beautiful. She was a ...

Rather than a relic of the past, Britain’s best known classist sees the ancient world as a powerful tool for understanding the present. By NS Podcasts Rather than a relic of the past, Mary Beard sees ...

We must stand against both anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hate By Prince Harry Over the past several years, I have spoken about the consequences of a world in which outrage outpaces humanity – where ...

The Greater Manchester mayor could have a route back to parliament By Megan Kenyon Andy Burnham could have a way back into parliament after the MP for Makerfield, Josh Simons, announced he would be ...

If Labour’s National Executive does as its members – and, indeed, much of the voting public – demand, then the battle for Makerfield could emerge as one of the most totemic and decisive parliamentary ...

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 ...

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 ...

After years of neglecting progressives, the party must learn there is no such thing as a “hero voter”. By Anoosh Chakelian It was 12 years ago when a Labour politician first warned me that the party ...