The “Zionism is racism” motion crossed a very significant red line By Caroline Lucas Perhaps Zack Polanski was never going to win Holborn and St Pancras. It’s been a Labour stronghold for more than 50 ...

The party is split after voting to define Zionism as racism By Megan Kenyon Green Party members backed a motion to describe Zionism as racism on Sunday (4 October), with 1022 votes for and 813 votes ...

The Prime Minister must avoid social democracy’s affordability trap By Anoosh Chakelian I write this column as SW1’s travelling circus of politicians, think-tankers and lobbyists emerge, headachey and ...

If this was a moment for Polanski to show leadership, he has failed By Alona Ferber Rarely do Jews, a people famous for disagreeing with one another, seem as aligned as they do over the Green Party ...

Attempt 17ish: hand remains intact. I am trying to pierce a tin of peaches with an eight-inch freshly sharpened chef’s knife. It is day four inside my 366-square-foot apartment; my tin opener has ...

The author and academic is worried about how AI will affect children’s ability to learn By New Statesman This week, the author and academic Katherine Rundell was interviewed by our culture editor ...

Party conferences should come with a list of things that do and don’t exist. Black Labradors? No. Warm ale in a pub? No. No-go zones for white people in Luton? Yes. Reality? Uncertain. At the Tories’ ...

It was this time last year at Labour Party conference when a stressed Labour MP, muttering grimly about his party’s future, told me something that stuck with me. “Trust me, our biggest threat is still ...

I had to get out of the forbidding maze of lanyards, parties and Harold Wilson By Pippa Bailey Twelve hours into my first Labour conference, and I have the curious sensation of having gone back in ...

The poet and novelist on judging the Booker and America’s insanity By Emily Lawford “This is the full butthole horse,” Patricia Lockwood says, pointing to a painting of a stallion’s flared behind. “He ...

Irony is about as much an aspect of Northern Ireland’s politics as compromise By John Mullin Sometimes, it’s the detail that sticks. Jason Quinn had just celebrated his eighth birthday, and his ...

And these people are not the nice, polite kind of crackhead By Nicholas Lezard It has been a slow news week in this column; all I have done is go back and forth from Brighton to East Finchley, with ...