t was a fortnight ago today that Keir Starmer announced “phase two” of his government. The aim was to banish the memory of ...

W.E. has no Madonna in it, but it is the ultimate Madonna biopic. She plays both the main character and the historical ghost.

They were in their sixties, married, and lived in Wickham, but had made a “rare trip to London” to go to the Montgomery ...

Paul Ovenden, the No 10 Director of Strategy, quit today following a leak of private messages from 2017 in which he relayed sexually explicit jokes about Diane Abbott. While he did not actually make ...

George Owers’s new book about the two-party political system is rich in history – but it misses one vital detail.

hen alarming things happen, the world looks for a villain. Two days after the shock shooting of right-wing activist and Trump ...

From the wealthy former MP and one-time owner of the New Statesman, Geoffrey Robinson, to the Hinduja brothers (regularly ...

I had, admittedly, been primed to be annoyed with Netflix’s feature-length adaptation of The Thursday Murder Club – not because I don’t like the book but because I do. Author Richard Osman has an ...

Some MPs see the race as a proxy war between Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham.

he killing at a Utah university of 31-year-old Charlie Kirk, a hard-right political activist and the father of two young ...

The Labour Deputy Leader hopeful is emphasising her identity as a working-class northern woman.

DSEI is the biggest trade show in Europe for the defence industry, a four-day festival of missiles and mines: Glastonbury for ...