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Angela Eagle and Owen Smith impress Labour MPs - but who'll be the candidate?
After the Parliamentary Labour Party hustings, it is no clearer which challenger will face Jeremy Corbyn. Labour MPs are agreed on the need for a "unity candidate" against Jeremy Corbyn. But they...
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Anti-Corbyn campaigners are recruiting lapsed Labour members – but is it legal?
The facts about the Progress campaign strategy. Anti-Corbynites at the think tank Progress are persuading constituency branches to hand over the details of ex-members so they can recruit them to take...
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Is the sale of the UK's largest tech company a "sad day" or a "vote of...
British-owned ARM Holdings will be sold to Japanese phone company SoftBank. ARM Holdings, producer of smartphone microchips and the biggest UK-owned technology company, will almost certainly be...
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“I’ve got a wife and children”: Owen Smith’s Andrea Leadsom moment
The Labour leadership contender listed having a family as one of the reasons he is “normal”. The Labour leadership candidate and MP for Pontypridd Owen Smith is under fire for claiming that having a...
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Kim Kardashian vs Taylor Swift: a battle of two PR styles
This feud represents a battle between two very different styles of storytelling.“I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative,” Taylor Swift writes in a statement released to the world via...
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Not just a one-quack mind: ducks are capable of abstract thought
Newborn ducklings can differentiate between objects that are the same and objects that are different, causing scientists to rethink the place of abstract thinking. There’s a particular loftiness to...
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Bangladesh: the UK's next refugee crisis if we don't act now
British MPs ignore Bangladesh at their peril. It is a peculiar feature of UK foreign policy that we only seem capable of focusing on one international crisis at a time. For now the eyes of...
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Why any English football post-mortem should know its limits
As the nation considers another sporting inquest, following England limping out of the Euros, is there really a reliable template for success in sport? In the immediate aftermath of England’s 2011...
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Should I tell you about my dry spell? Really, it's not something the media...
One does not, for example, read a thoughtful column about Brexit only to stumble across the words, three-quarters of the way through, “And on top of this all, I’m not even Getting Any.”“But Jesus, when...
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How Labour MPs voted on Trident
How did your MP vote on renewing Britain's nuclear programme? The Government's decision to debate the renewal of the Trident nuclear programme has been widely seen as a move to make Labour squirm. And...
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Snakes on a plain: the gloriously eerie boglands of Essex Serpent
Sarah Perry's new novel uses stylistic mastery to rework a potent mythological inheritence. From Celtic mythology and the malevolent, sheep-eating Lambton Worm of Durham to Bram Stoker’s Lair of the...
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Jeremy Corbyn well ahead in first poll of the Labour leadership race
The Labour leader is on course to repeat last year's victory. Jeremy Corbyn would easily defeat his two rivals if the Labour leadership election was held tomorrow, a YouGov poll has found. He leads...
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Could Vote Leave be prosecuted for its EU referendum campaign propaganda?
The legal case for suing the pro-Brexit campaign for its misleading information. Since the result of the EU referendum, there has been widespread anger from those who believe that the organisation...
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Does Labour's £25 voting fee discriminate against the poor?
You can vote in the Labour leadership election by paying £25. But is it right to charge? The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has long maintained he has the support of party members. And he has reasons...
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What the “honour killing” of celebrity feminist Qandeel Baloch reveals about...
The cultural icon, known as “Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian”, was killed by her brother, in a country where more than 1,000 such murders occur per year. Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch was...
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Making waves across the pond: how the US views Brexit
The possiblity of the UK becoming a more dynamic actor is an exciting one – but the prospect of the union breaking up is feared in the US. Watching the Brexit referendum unfold during a visit to the...
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The Northern Powerhouse is running out of steam
The previous Government’s pledge to share wealth with the North could be fatally derailed. Before Brexit, Manchester was given control of its own health budget worth £6bn, Leeds celebrated a £20m...
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The Eurosceptics whined for 41 years. So why does everyone expect Remain to...
No, we are not all Brexiters now. As the polls closed in Britain’s referendum on whether to leave the European Union, UKIP leader Nigel Farage conceded the race with the words: “It looks like Remain...
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Ukip is stealthily planning a move that could shake British politics to its core
The protest party will try to capture the North. It seems unlikely that there’ll be a more entertaining spectacle this summer than the comedy circus of British politics. The plot is ludicrous and the...
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The pain depicted in London riots docufilm The Hard Stop is most vivid in its...
George Amponsah's film, following the repercussions of Tottenham 20-year-old Mark Duggan's death in 2011, studies injustice through both banality and drama. The starting point for The Hard Stop is the...
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