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Labour can do better than Andy Burnham's half-hearted opposition to the...
The Investigatory Powers Bill seeks to legitimise powers already used by police and security services. Labour's refusal to fully question its aims is a mistake.“Do you agree with the principle of the...
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The government's new education policy isn't even worth talking about
Forget whether it would work - the government won't ever stump up the cash. Every school in England will become an academy, Newsnight's Christopher Cook reports. It's difficult to know where to start...
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The hidden truth behind George Osborne’s record on jobs
Busting the “jobs miracle” myth of the Chancellor’s 2016 Budget. George Osborne will begin his seventh budget by heralding Britain’s “jobs miracle” and congratulating himself on lowering unemployment...
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The Democratic race is over - and Hillary Clinton has won
Meanwhile, the Republican race still has a way left to run. After his failure in New Hampshire, a pretty poor Super Tuesday and a terrible string of results since, Marco Rubio bet it all on his home...
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Budget 2016: the chance for George Osborne to put David Cameron's words into...
The Prime Minister's focus on life chances is great. But the devil will be in the detail. I was very encouraged that the Prime Minister kicked this year offwith a speech that committed to giving...
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Jamie Reed - you're wrong about me, about Labour, and about the future
Mark Serwotka responds to Jamie Reed's recent article. It was good of Jamie Reed to welcome me to the Labour party. And with me, tens of thousands of new members enthused by what they're seeing from...
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Sky News presenter Adam Boulton calls tampons a "sin" in his Budget 2016...
Forgive me, Boulton, for I have sinned. Do you know what's sinful? Eating loads of sugar. Guzzling fuel. Smoking your lungs away. Getting sozzled. Do you know what's not sinful? Erm, absorbing...
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Budget 2016: The same policies, and the same failures
If this is George Osborne’s last budget, it served as a neat precis of the seven that came before it. George Osborne started this budget with a short repeat of one of his greatest hits, "The Mess...
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In this week's magazine | Spring double issue
A first look at this week's issue.18 - 31 March issueSpring issue doubleSimon Jenkins on Tony Blair: Why reading Tom Bower’s new biography made me feel sorry for him.George Eaton on the long march of...
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Budget 2016: George Osborne gives himself a legacy in case of political death
The surprise sugar levy showed the Chancellor does not want to be remembered for political calculation alone. George Osborne delivered his eighth Budget in the full knowledge that it could be his...
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A woman’s body is not a disgrace
Only women are asked to choose between being our bodies and being a person. Boys grow up by getting bigger, stronger, louder. The things that a male child is encouraged to be good at are, by and large,...
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Why it doesn’t matter at all that George Osborne is breaking yet another...
Following his Budget, the Chancellor will be breaking two out of three of his own fiscal rules. Having delivered this year’s Budget, it’s clear that George Osborne will be breaking two out of three of...
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How do we decode the “Obama doctrine”?
Jeffrey Goldberg’s 20,000-word write-up of his series of interviews with Obama in the Atlantic makes for fascinating reading. But what does it tell us about the president's strategies? American...
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Leader: The end of the comprehensive
The plan to transform schools into academies is just the latest evidence that this government has no coherent education policy. Given George Osborne’s persistent failure to meet his own savings...
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It’s time for George Osborne to break his bad Budget habits and commit to...
A leopard never changes its spots, as George Osborne's regressive 2016 Budget shows. Today, the country needed the Chancellor to put aside the soap opera of the Tory leadership to focus on securing...
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"Imminent catastrophe": a poem by Clive James
The imminent catastrophe goes on Not showing many signs of happening. The ice at the North Pole that should be gone By now, is awkwardly still lingering, And though sometimes the weather is extreme...
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Of course the sugar tax is regressive. So is sugar
The obesity crisis disproportionately affects the poor. There are already as many arguments against the sugar tax as there are sugary drinks that will fall under its ambit. In yesterday’s Budget,...
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How we think about women and shame
As a woman gets older, she is made to feel ashamed for her sexuality – something that enables the likes of Jason Lawrance, match.com rapist, to prey upon her. Consider this: a woman opens a cupboard...
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The biggest trick in George Osborne’s 2016 Budget
There’s a hole in your Budget, dear Chancellor, dear Chancellor. It was pretty obvious when George Osborne promised last year to be running a surplus by 2020 that he was setting himself up to fail. He...
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Budget 2016: watch out, there's an iceberg ahead
The Chancellor will have to address Britain’s pay and productivity crisis if he’s to avoid creating a £32bn feelbad factor in run-up to next election. If you’re the kind of person that finds money...
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