The Reform leader didn’t turn up to his own by-election By Anoosh Chakelian Nigel Farage has won the Clacton by-election, in a contest boycotted by every other major party. The Reform leader secured ...

Once again – this time in Thetford – asylum seekers have become a locus for violence By Anoosh Chakelian Thetford, once home to Boudica, Thomas Paine and the last Maharaja of the Punjab, has an ...

All the locals we met were frustrated with politics and years of neglect By Anoosh Chakelian Clacton is a conundrum. A day out there can lead you from day-trippers enjoying the beautiful sandy ...

The university’s place in the public imagination is as illusory as Jason Arday’s academic credentials By David Runciman Oceans of virtual ink have been spilled about the case of Jason Arday because it ...

The political fury over the early release proposals should be directed at our dangerous reoffending rates By Rachel Cunliffe The early-release scheme – the first big test of Andy Burnham’s nascent ...

The Labour Party’s annual conference in September 1952 was uniquely brutal. Delegates arrived in Morecambe to lashings of rain: the Cumbrian peaks across the bay were barely visible. After a sobering ...

It will take more than a pact to win back the radical right By Ben Walker It is Friday 19 June and Nigel Farage is in Lancashire, standing in front of a camera, the rolling countryside behind him. He ...

Andy Burnham’s early policy and communications blitz – eating pork scratchings and climbing ladders on TikTok, visiting the Barrow shipyard and Dover coastguard, promising cheaper buses and pubs – ...

Zack Polanski’s latest appearance on Newsnight had been planned for weeks before he walked through the doors of New Broadcasting House on 28 July. But when the day finally came, the Green Party leader ...

Watch the full horror of our finances unroll before you Little details matter, and they add up At the Norfolk Snail Racing Championship, I tried and failed to coax my slug to victory A holiday in ...

Andy Burnham is the new leader of the Labour party after the results of the party’s uncontested leadership election were announced on Friday (17 July) afternoon. In a speech to the party faithful at ...

Some polls now put Labour neck-and-neck with Reform. It may not last By Ben Walker Andy Burnham is one of the most popular politicians in Britain today, but that doesn’t mean much. The new Prime ...