Forgive and forget
To begin with, Theresa May was not planning to take a three-week holiday — but she was subtly advised that,…
Parliament’s new tribe
Politics is such a fickle game that it’s perfectly acceptable to believe six impossible things before breakfast without ever having…
Parliament’s new tribe
Politics is such a fickle game that it’s perfectly acceptable to believe six impossible things before breakfast without ever having…
Parliament’s new tribe
Politics is such a fickle game that it’s perfectly acceptable to believe six impossible things before breakfast without ever having…
Parliament’s new tribe
Politics is such a fickle game that it’s perfectly acceptable to believe six impossible things before breakfast without ever having…
Parliament’s new tribe
Politics is such a fickle game that it’s perfectly acceptable to believe six impossible things before breakfast without ever having…
Parliament’s new tribe
Politics is such a fickle game that it’s perfectly acceptable to believe six impossible things before breakfast without ever having…
Labour can't learn from its mistakes. Here's why
By now, Labour should be rather good at post-defeat inquests. Plenty have been conducted over the years and the drill…
Zac's campaign is as good as over; Labour will retake London
The Labour plotters who dream of ousting Jeremy Corbyn had high hopes for the local elections on 5 May. They…
What Muslims think
Do you have sympathy with young Muslims who leave the UK to join fighters in Syria? It’s a hard question…
‘Perhaps we needed to tip the whole thing over’: Jon Cruddas on Jeremy Corbyn's Labour
Shortly before the last election a group of Labour MPs approached Ed Miliband to ask him what he would do…
Yes, Syrian children need foster homes. But so do British ones
Would you open your home to a migrant child? If the reaction to the drowning of three-year-old Alan Kurdi is…
Yvette Cooper interview: ‘It’s not going to be my style to vote against the Labour whip 500 times like Jeremy!’
Yvette Cooper treated herself to a morning off from the campaign trail last weekend. It didn’t sound very relaxing, though:…
Think Cameron’s small majority will hold him back? Not with his new army of loyalists
Time was when the Conservatives believed that a small majority — which puts a government at the mercy of backbench…
Labour MPs’ next choice: which leadership coup to back
Jeremy Corbyn’s close friend Tony Benn had five questions he always asked of those in power: ‘What power have you…
Labour's already running out of time to regain its lost voters
The Labour leadership contest was supposed to be a debate about the party’s future. Instead it has oscillated between petty…
Whoever wins the Labour leadership, Blairism is at death’s door
The exhausted Labour leadership contest takes a bucket-and-spade holiday next week, with all four candidates agreeing to an uneasy truce…
Meet the Tories’ Welsh Wizard: an interview with Stephen Crabb
Blue collars are all the rage in the Tory party these days, which makes Stephen Crabb a very fashionable cabinet…
Andy Burnham interview: 'I wanted a different approach, because I'm mainstream Labour'
Time was when Andy Burnham passed for a middle-of-the-road Labourite: he was deemed insufficiently dramatic and impressive to secure much…
Why would someone pay hundreds of pounds for one snowdrop bulb? I think I know
I think I’m coming down with galanthomania. It’s a rare affliction, but one that’s hard to shake, and it’s affecting…
Archbishop John Sentamu on why politicians are like men arguing at a urinal
‘I shoot further than you, I am the biggest of the men!’ says John Sentamu, Archbishop of York. He is talking…
Never mind the general election: Tories are already fighting the Europe referendum
It is quite normal in British politics for a political party to turn on itself after an election defeat —…
The Tories are paying the price for their swagger over the Rochester by-election
In a corner of the Ukip campaign office in Rochester, a light-up orb is spinning, with the words ‘Vote Mark…
Conservative Anglicans’ emergency plan to escape women bishops
Anglicans aren’t the sort of church-goers who set much store by miracles, signs and wonders. Yet their own church is one…
How Eurosceptics will squeeze Cameron
Tory backbenchers, who have been happy for months, are once more sunk in gloom, sitting in dejected huddles in the…
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