If Andy Burnham succeeds in the Makerfield by-election next month, Labour will immediately face a new challenge: a Greater ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rules of leadership contests are strange, and can be decisive ...

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 ...

New polling exposes weaknesses in “brand Farage”. Nigel Farage and Reform UK are a real threat to Labour and the Conservatives alike. We’ve heard a lot about the strengths of the challenger party – ...

Instagram taps into our competitive psychology and tendency for girl-on-girl bullying. By Freya India For years now, social media has been the villain du jour for spiking rates of anxiety, depression ...

The insurgent politics sweeping the UK has arrived north of the border By Chris Deerin Five more years. A quarter-century of Nationalist rule. The SNP have emerged from yet another Holyrood election ...

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