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Payouts for David Cameron's inner circle will be seen as a slap in the face...
Civil service unions blast the outgoing prime minister as a "hypocrite" for ignoring civil service advice and boosting special advisers' exit pay. When he left Downing Street for the final time as...
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The Turkish coup is unlikely to have a clean outcome
Affairs in the country will now be determined by power alone. For anyone closely connected to Turkish politics, the British drama that has – to some extent rightly – been attached to the EU...
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Word of the week: Mayssacre
Each week The Staggers will pick a new word to describe our uncharted political and socioeconomic territory. After a week in which David Cameron resigned as Prime Minister and his successor Theresa...
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When idealists go to battle: why the Spanish Civil War still matters
The long shadow cast by the Spanish Civil War is more potent because the progressives lost. The Spanish Civil War holds a perennial fascination for a non-Spanish audience. Even if we cannot quite...
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One cheer for democracy, why I’m sceptical about Brexit’s hate crimes – and...
Peter Wilby on bewildering political change and why he doubt Theresa May would call for a general election. Democracy is all very well but, to adapt the title of Ken Livingstone’s memoirs, when voting...
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Turkey's failed coup hands Erdoğan the pretext for further repression
An authoritarian president has been saved by a peoples’ faith in democracy. But he is unlikely to credit them. Turkish politics is seldom what it seems and so a coup late at night, backed with the...
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A second referendum is the only way to get Britain to back Brexit
It sounds paradoxical, but it may be that another referendum is the thing Leave needs most.“The people of Britain have spoken. Now we must all bury our differences, rally round and pull together with...
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Debating Trident now is a nakedly political act
There is no urgent need for a debate about the UK's nuclear programme. Amongst all the political shenanigans, it would be easy to miss next week’s Parliamentary votes on renewing the UK’s Trident...
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Detecting dogs and Norse gods: The best new children’s books for summer
The best children's books don't feel like more school. These picks will help make the summer holidays even better. Some kids never read a page once school ends, but the best summer books enhance a...
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We must face the future - but first we need a new leader
We believe that Owen Smith is our best hope, say Michael Payne and Tim Roca. Clement Attlee when asked by a departing minister why he had just given him the sack responded in typical style: “Afraid...
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A portrait of the artist: is it time we looked at Turner differently?
Two new books about the painter show that, when it comes to biography, sometimes less detail can give us more perspective. Rembrandt, whom J M W Turner revered, left more than 100 self-portraits but...
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Nigeria’s struggles with a conflict more dangerous than the Boko Haram...
Armed nomadic herdsmen are now posing a deadlier threat to Nigerians than any terrorist group. Over the last year, the threat of the Boko Haram insurgency in northern Nigeria has gradually waned, yet...
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Thangam Debbonaire MP: Why I have no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership
He appointed me as a shadow culture minister without my knowledge or consent while I was in the middle of cancer treatment, only to sack me shortly afterwards. Many people have asked me for specific...
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Journalism failed when it allowed Boris Johnson to flourish – with dire...
A responsible media would have ignored Johnson, and let him be a fat Alan Clark, rotting with thwarted ambition. Now we have to live with our folly. I love writing about Boris Johnson, so much that I...
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The Brexit minister David Davis thinks the Republic of Ireland is part of the UK
The new minister in charge of negotiating our exit from the EU called the border with the Republic "internal". There is only one explanation. Pity poor David Davis, who has been made Secretary of...
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Why the legend of Georgia O’Keeffe – fierce, feminist and modernist – has...
A new exhibition at Tate Modern reveals how O'Keeffe's personality came to inform her art – and why it's time to consider them together. Georgia O’Keeffe was never merely a painter. In later life,...
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Jeremy Corbyn's got it right on Trident – Labour MPs should follow his lead
The money spent renewing Trident could be used for intelligence instead. December will mark the 25th anniversary of the Cold War's final days. On Christmas Day 1991, Gorbachev resigned as the Soviet...
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The Sun struggles to understand why Channel 4 News reporter Fatima Manji...
Forner editor Kelvin MacKenzie asked: Why did Channel 4 have a presenter in a hijab fronting coverage of Muslim terror in Nice? Fatima Manji is a Channel 4 news reporter. Having worked at the TV...
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Lilian Greenwood MP: Jeremy Corbyn continually undermined me in the job I loved
An abridged version of the speech the former shadow Transport secretary gave to her constituency party members. Last Thursday I met with Nottingham South Labour Party members to explain my recent...
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How, as a child, I ended up dining with Roald Dahl at a Caribbean golf club
He seemed genuinely delighted to hear that I had, only the other week, electrocuted myself by plunging a rusted knitting needle into a faulty light socket. More than 30 years ago, I had dinner with...
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