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 ...

In late January, Nigel Farage stood in front of a packed Reform party fundraiser in Oswald’s, an exclusive private members’ club in Mayfair, central London. Farage encouraged the 100-strong crowd to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thousands of people are expected to gather at Central Hall in Westminster today to hear how they and their loved ones came to contract lethal viruses in the biggest treatment disaster in NHS history.

Farage and GB News have been allowed to ignore the rules for too long The Reform leader is under parliamentary investigation over a £5m donation. But don’t hold your breath for similar scrutiny of GB ...

This year’s artistic shindig in Venice has faced controversy after controversy. Still, it’s not a total loss… ...

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?

The Brixton branch of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) are selling their newspaper outside Shoreditch station, and it isn’t going well. They’ve managed one in half an hour. There’s a huddle to ...

Twelfth November was an unremarkable day in British politics. Another day when the topic of debate wasn’t one of voters’ main concerns—immigration or healthcare, say, or the budget, or the farmers—but ...