Masked agents abducting lawful foreign residents into unmarked vans; unconstitutional deportations to El Salvador; the arrest of a Congresswoman conducting oversight of an immigration centre; ...

For much of modern British constitutional history, we formally pretended that the office of prime minister did not exist. In practice, the office is usually dated back to the 1720s and the ascendancy ...

Donald Trump likes to talk up his links to Britain, his Hebridean mother and Scottish golf courses. But the appreciation has largely been one way: David Lammy’s description of the president elect as a ...

Once upon a time Birmingham was described as “the best-governed city in the world”. The description was made in 1890 by New York’s august Harper’s magazine: The 1890 article went on for 12 pages, and ...

The local elections have given Britain’s electoral reform debate its strongest stimulus since 2011. Reform’s breakthrough, Labour’s losses, Conservative weakness and the rise of smaller parties have ...

In the run-up to every election in my Middle England market town, a light drizzle of campaign posters appears in windows. Mostly Labour, or “the Red Team”, as my youngest daughter calls them.

This month our family of writers is in a whimsical mood: Vitali Vitaliev reflects on the very different purpose toilet paper once had in Soviet Ukraine, while Anglican priest Alice Goodman laments the ...

Even when Patrick Radden Keefe considers a question, he takes on the look of an interrogator working against the clock: brow furrowed, shoulders set—the focus of someone who lives off his knack for ...

Collective, consistent and concerted effort—matched by an honest conversation about risk—is required to enhance the resilience of telecoms and communications networks ...

The dignified departure of a prime minister is rare, but I saw some of the least ‘disorderly’ Labour resignations up close ...

It’s election time in many an English local authority. What will life be like for the lucky candidates who win?

It’s hard to think of a more important English philosopher or cultural thinker this century than Mark Fisher. Far from the senior common rooms and manicured quadrangles of our blue-blooded ...