It’s a dull grey day in the pebbledashed sprawl of north-west London when I first see Keir Starmer. We’re at RAF Northolt ...

The grenade is Liz Truss. Labour loves to talk about her. Reeves reminded the House yesterday of two awkward facts: what the ...

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Reeves’ advance U-turn on winter fuel already marked a return to more familiar territory. Labour MPs struggled to defend a policy that removed the benefit from almost all pensioners. Now, with it ...

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Stefan Collini’s new book explores why such a prestigious academic discipline finds itself on the margins of modern society.

There is more dissent in the country – where assisted dying is legal – than MPs in the UK have been led to believe.

I had another one of those birthdays the other day. It was a small and pleasant affair, held as per usual in the garden of ...

With Elon Musk exiled from government, the president is free to enact the wildest fever dreams of the American public.

I did a geography degree, and there’s a circularity in the way things have turned out: I was reading poems when I should have ...

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