It has long been fashionable for politicians and commentators to worry about the “Americanisation” of British politics. Concerns of this nature date back more than a century, to debates about ...

At Reform Party Conference this month, the only subject journalists wanted to talk about was the donor scandal. The day before the conference began, Channel 4 broadcast a documentary in which ...

Politics is lousy with bookworms. But are they reading the good stuff? By Bethany Elliott The reading habits of politicians, like their sexual proclivities, are largely hidden from public view until ...

This is the Prime Minister’s first real attempt to redistribute power from Whitehall By Ethan Croft Mayors across England will soon have the power to raise a visitor levy, the government announced ...

Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions (9 September) was only Andy Burnham’s second in the job, and was the final session before MPs head off on conference recess next Tuesday (15 September). Here’s what ...

Banbury Lodge rehabilitation centre is a former care home in Oxfordshire with space for 20 residents. The manager Nick Dunkley shows me a common room where they come to relax. There’s a timetable on ...

The new Prime Minister has set himself a fierce challenge: remaking Britain’s economic order By Michael Jacobs When Andy Burnham stood on the steps of Downing Street on his first day as Prime Minister ...

The party leader won with “overwhelming support” from local members By Megan Kenyon Zack Polanski has been selected as the Green Party candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. The ...

A year after his assassination, the activist has had one of the strangest afterlives in political history By Alex Bronzini-Vender Hours after a bullet struck Charlie Kirk on 10 September last year, ...

This has become a country where men in balaclavas target lifeboat volunteers By Anoosh Chakelian When Mo, an English teacher from Iran, spent a year and a half staying at the Thistle City Barbican ...

Royal pupils at the school are not spared its torments By Emily Lawford In Exodus, Moses is tending to his flock when a bush bursts into flames and God’s voice calls out from within its leaves. At ...

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 ...