Ahead of the recent Uxbridge and South Ruislip byelection to replace Boris Johnson as MP (who’d stepped down in disgrace after being found guilty of misleading parliament), 25,000 leaflets were posted ...

People are tired of Westminster. The two-party dominance, fostered by the restrictive first-past-the-post system, stifles genuine choice and innovation. Labour and the Tories grapple for Number 10, ...

In this Monday’s episode of Media Confidential Alan and Lionel are talking to NPR’s media correspondent David Folkenflik about what is actually happening at American broadcaster CBS. They discuss the ...

So here we are, ten years after Brexit. The pure air of sovereignty. Taking back control from the unelected Brussels bureaucrats and handing it to Elon Musk, JD Vance, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson and ...

Tinged with lilac and freckled with cartoon skulls, the Aesthetics Wiki’s homepage welcomes thousands of users a day, promising to offer them a comprehensive guide to all “visual schemata”. At time of ...

Number 10’s famous front entrance has become the most notorious revolving door in Europe. We have had as many prime ministers in the last 10 years as in the previous 40. The United Kingdom is the “new ...

Imagine waking up to the chill of a damp, unfamiliar room hundreds of miles from home. Two strangers watching you from the shadows. You reach for your phone—it’s gone. Your bag? Gone. You bolt for the ...

Priests are formed by prayer. They’re also formed by education, and by desire. I would like, for a moment to leave out the language of calling, or vocation, which is where people usually begin to ...

The turnover of prime ministers is high, and expectations for the next one are low ...

Failure is relative. For me, egg poaching pans—the kind with circular inserts and the little egg holding devices—are failures. The eggs come out oddly uniform. The white doesn’t fully encircle the ...

Thursday’s elections showed how multi-party competition is transforming British politics. Two of the results illustrate the character of this change. In Hackney, Zoe Garbutt, the Green candidate, was ...