For once, the hype is valid. The Makerfield byelection really matters. If Andy Burnham wins, he probably becomes prime minister. If he loses, a Reform UK government looms large. There have been ...

Vladimir Putin has repeatedly threatened to escalate the war in Ukraine by breaking the nuclear taboo. In June, as Russia installed tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, he raised the spectre of a ...

Andy Burnham’s audacious launch video for the Makerfield byelection presents him as a Mancunian folk hero, and carries the voices of voters who think that the aspiring candidate for this one seat ...

In this episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists ...

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; ...

This year’s Eurovision Song Contest, the final of which was held on Saturday, had all the usual hallmarks. Pyrotechnics; the entire continent’s supply of sequins and rhinestones; obligatory glam-goth ...

Trump is a mentally unstable bully, but his spell has been broken ...

After five careful years, the novelist’s fourth book is being translated by an Israeli publisher. Here are the politics of that process ...

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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 ...

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In the last year, the United States has transitioned from flawed liberal democracy to competitive authoritarianism. In this new regime, institutions as diverse as universities, law firms and news ...