At Prime Minister’s Questions the other week, Ed Davey mildly chided Sir Keir for whipping his MPs on a privileges committee ...

Gordon Brown knows all about hiding behind the net curtains of No. 10 as electoral reality sets in. As Labour fell to a ...

Virologists, the imaginative bunch that we are, often name new viruses after the places they were first found. Zika ...

While some might suspect that Starmer and Labour’s National Executive Committee had ignoble motivations when they stopped ...

BBC Verify is in retreat. Last June the Beeb launched the ‘Verify Live blog’ as part of its push for ‘greater transparency’.

The outcome of the Prime Minister’s make-or-break speech yesterday morning was never really in any doubt, was it? It’s ...

Florence Nightingale, born in Florence on this day in 1820, made her world measurably better. She counted the dead ...

Labour MP Catherine West today accelerated her campaign to move out of the ‘random backbencher’ club and towards becoming ...

The internecine fights before the Extinguish Antisemitism rally in Whitehall are typical of British Jews, who tend to only ...

Reality Check verdict: the wrong prescription Yesterday, Angela Rayner called for a path to be cleared for Andy Burnham ...

Just before writing this piece, I saw Gary Oldman in a London production of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape.

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