By naming McSweeney chief of staff, Starmer has abolished No 10’s dual power structure and given his administration a more explicitly political stamp. One criticism long made of Gray was that, as a ...

Her position had become "unsustainable", Labour staff said.

This is Lebanon’s modern history: bloody and conflicted. Present events are unfortunately of a piece. Lebanon’s ...

There’s a particular type of column, upsettingly common in British newspapers over the past few years, that can be summarised ...

Governmental secondary schools in Egypt do not allow Palestinian students to enrol in classes, so recent exiled ...

Scotland is not immune to the Burnham effect. In the SNP’s recent Programme for Government, Holyrood’s equivalent of the King ...

This Royal Court play about the author’s anti-Semitism argues for and against Israel with a composure as uncanny as one of his plots.

Despite being strewn with mistakes, Unleashed shows that deep down the former PM always believes himself to be right. By Leo Robson For those wondering whether Boris ...

A cynic might say that his conversion is not really a conversion at all. By Pippa Bailey Earlier this week a colleague asked me about my baptism. I was 21, I answered, in my final year of university.

Is an almost £22bn investment in the technology a good idea? By Will Dunn Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves and Ed Miliband are in the north-west today to push three months’ worth of bad PR into a pipe and ...

What kind of tax reforms would stimulate growth? There’s no silver bullet, but serious reforms to the tax system could raise revenues and stimulate private investment. By Arun Advani On October 30, ...