Keir Starmer’s former left-wing challenger said he is “very sadly not in a position to stand this time round” By Megan Kenyon Andrew Feinstein, the independent candidate who challenged Keir Starmer in ...

England and Ireland do not know how to talk about each other By Finn McRedmond Tuesday, and the Irish (the Republic of Irish) announced Sonja Hyland as the new Ambassador to Great Britain. Were you to ...

Starmer is resigning as an MP. Why do I feel so dispirited? It feels no coincidence that the reputations of those who remain in public life improve more rapidly than those who quit By Tom McTague Back ...

Young people are lost in the chasm between aspiration and reality By Vicky Spratt When Charlie, 32, was growing up in a small town in Lincolnshire in the 1990s, she dreamed of success, of moving away, ...

The case has unleashed an avalanche of personal stories from struggling mothers and reckless conspiracies By Jill Filipovic Closing arguments began on Thursday 27 August in the trial of Lindsay Clancy ...

Did the Green Party top up its deputy leader’s wages with public money? Leeds City Council will review the allocation of £5,800 to Mothin Ali By Megan Kenyon The Green Party has been accused of using ...

At the Clacton count, I came face to face with Nigel Farage’s challenger By Anoosh Chakelian First came the Loonies. As counting agents at long trestle tables unfurled each ballot paper like an ...

Brazil is leading the resistance to Trump’s imperial “Donroe” doctrine By James Schneider “American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again,” the US State Department ...

Nobody writes about drink, drugs and dissolution like Lawrence Osborne does By Clement Knox Following literary careers is a bit like watching a tightrope walker on a high wire. At first you’re ...

Simon Winder is an author and a publishing director of Penguin Press. His books include Germania, Danubia and Lotharingia (Picador). Also this week: rediscovering a lost diary, and trying to complete ...

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. But in the end, even he ...

More than two million people will soon fill the streets of west London for the Notting Hill Carnival. Yet every year, the headlines are the same: policing costs, transport disruption, attendance and, ...