UKIP finished ahead of Labour in the 2009 European elections, a harbinger of Reform’s future performance. Successive prime ...

Tiffany Jenkins’s stimulating history Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life is not, despite what its ...

Echoes of the citizens of nowhere rhetoric – turbocharged – could be heard in yesterday’s warning by Keir Starmer that “we risk becoming an island of strangers”, as the Prime Minister gave a speech ...

Remainers within Labour and beyond spy an opportunity: to reunite Britain with the EU they believe it should never have left.

Until the start of this week, most people probably hadn’t heard of Zack Polanski. Though the Green Party deputy leader is ...

The great American writer witnessed the forging of his nation – but Ron Chernow’s portrait cannot see beyond its subject.

Miliband’s supporters like to compare him to Michael Gove – a man who entered government with a plan and has bent Whitehall ...

Keir Starmer will proclaim a victory for Britain. But the exploitative logic behind America’s tariff policy has not changed.

Trumpism thrives on the misery of its followers – and we are all unhappier for it.

As well as a political reset, Labour needs an economic reset. The cuts to winter fuel payments and disability benefits were ...

Reform is a monster created by the right-wing media’s anti-immigration, anti-net zero and anti-woke obsessions. But following ...

At the Q&A session after a poetry reading a few weeks ago, somebody wanted to know what kind of tree I’d be (“If you were a ...