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Sorry Michael Gove, when it comes to Europe and the law, you're just wrong
It's good that the Secretary of State has shown his working, if only so we can see where he's gone wrong. Who’d be a judge? People bring you tough questions to resolve, you give your view and then...
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Naz Shah resigns from Labour frontbench
The Bradford West MP has stepped down following the emergence of remarks made prior to her election as an MP. Naz Shah has resigned as parliamentary private secretary to John McDonnell, after the...
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The Hillsborough verdict isn’t about football – the disaster was a national...
It wasn't about football in 1989, it isn't about football now. It is about the fact that dehumanising doesn't just happen in moments, but can lead to deaths in seconds, can lead to lies for years, can...
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The Tory attacks on junior doctors expose their bogus claim to be the party...
While we see aspiration as the common pursuit of improving your lot in life, the Tories use the word almost as a synonym for low tax and privatisation, says Liam Young. For a number of years the Tories...
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SRSLY #41: Beyoncé, Bake Off Crème de la Crème, Zodiac
On the pop culture podcast this week: Beyoncé's visual album Lemonade, Bake Off spin-off Crème de la Crème and serial killer thriller Zodiac.*/ This is SRSLY, the pop culture podcast from the New...
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Even in crisis, John McDonnell comes out stronger
Having your PPS resign doesn't usually benefit you. But in this case, it just might. The world, as Rob Colvile notes in his superb new book, The Great Acceleration, is getting faster. Alistair...
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The government has failed to hold Tata to account over Port Talbot
The Government’s soft-peddling on Tata is driven in part by a mixture of fear of provoking the company into precipitous action and the wider geo-economic considerations being emphasised within the...
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Light can make artists of us all – if we look carefully
Together, Ann Wroe and Bruce Watson's new books illuminate – no other word will do – the brilliance all around. Even before birth, we are ready to see the light. As the visual system develops inside...
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Which paper couldn’t find room for Hillsborough on its front page?
Go on, guess.*/ The unlawful killing verdict in the Hillsborough inquest has, quite rightly, dominated the news over the last 24 hours. As Neil Atkinson wrote in these pages yesterday, the disaster...
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Sorry Bernie Bros, it will be Hillary Clinton taking on Donald Trump
Although Sanders will not be mathematically eliminated until California apportions its delegates on 7 June, the numbers are getting more and more implausible. It was no surprise that Donald Trump won...
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Brown Willy is Cornwall’s answer to Withnail & I
This black and white, bittersweet comedy follows two 40-year-old former school friends who trudge out on to Bodmin Moor as part of a misguided stag do. Cinema audiences in Cornwall will have an...
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In this week's magazine | The new facism
A first look at this week's issue.29 April - 5 May issueThe new facismMichael Heseltine on the EU referendum: Why Brexit would be “catastrophic”, Thatcher would have voted Remain, and the UK will one...
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PMQs review: Jeremy Corbyn's academies sequel disappoints
After the Labour leader's victory last week, David Cameron cruised through today's session. Sequels are typically worse than their originals. So it was with Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs today. After last...
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Nigel Farage forgets which side he’s on in the EU debate
“Once again David Cameron makes a powerful argument to vote Remain.” The EU referendum campaign seems to be tiring out poor Nige. The Ukip leader was caught by a few hasty screengrabbers on Twitter...
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Even my old digs won’t ease the sense that Cambridge is wasted on the young
Graduation first exiled me from the place; then, once I had regained a foothold, romantic disaster. Long story. A visit to Cambridge. Graduation first exiled me from the place; then, once I had...
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Heidi Alexander's lukewarm response to the junior doctors' strike shows she...
In the heat of the dispute, what is being drawn out is a sharp set of differences within Labour, both about how to handle strikes, but also, on deeper level, about how far to go in opposing private...
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The nightmare that's haunting Sadiq Khan - and cheering Zac Goldsmith
The memory of 2015 provides hope to Zac Goldsmith - and fear for Sadiq Khan. “Politicians,” the American diplomant John Bolton once observed, are “like generals – they tend to fight the last war.”...
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However Labour performs in the elections, Jeremy Corbyn will be leader for as...
Were Corbyn challenged, he would likely win by an equal or larger margin than last year. At a recent shadow cabinet meeting, John McDonnell declared that Labour had become a “government in exile”. It...
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Michael Heseltine interview: “The Brexiters have swallowed their own propaganda”
The great Tory Europhile on why the UK will still join the single currency and why Thatcher would have voted to stay in the EU. Michael Heseltine is that rare thing: a Conservative Europhile....
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Naz Shah suspended by Labour hours after Jeremy Corbyn praised her apology
The Bradford MP has had the Labour whip removed while she is investigated for anti-semitic comments made on social media. The Labour MP Naz Shah has been "administratively suspended" by the Labour...
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