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Sebastian PayneFinancial Times |
There is almost no debate more tribal, toxic or territorial than around trans issues. Often conducted on social media, through piecemeal posts and...
To leave or not to leave? That’s the question Rishi Sunak might soon have to answer when the Rwanda asylum plan returns to the political fore very...
It was the phrase that kick-started a presidency. Addressing the nation for the first time as leader, Donald Trump painted a dystopian, dark, sinister...
Will we ever stop talking about Rwanda? It’s rapidly coming up to two long years since Boris Johnson announced plans to off-shore processing of...
To understand Lee Anderson is to understand where he comes from. Ashfield in the East Midlands fits many of the stereotypes of the “Red Wall” that...
In the end, Jeremy Hunt had a bad hand and played it the best he could. Despite loading up with £10bn of tax cuts and some measures to boost growth,...
It’s Budget time once more, but how much does next week’s really matter? Is this the tentative pre-election fiscal event to merely set out the...
What a mess. The parliamentary shenanigans of Wednesday evening’s Israel-Gaza ceasefire vote may prove to be the downfall of Commons Speaker Sir...
“There’s no easy popularity in what we are proposing but it is fundamentally sound, I believe people accept there’s no real alternative.” So...
Elmo might just be the most astute political analyst of our times. When the Sesame Street star took to social media this week to ask how everyone...
After all that, it was not even a dozen. After months of darkening threats, both quiet and loud, Conservative MPs unhappy about the Safety of Rwanda...
The by-election bandwagon rolls again. The writ for Kingswood has been moved on Wednesday and another £200,000 or so will be spent electing an MP who...
For once, Sir Keir Starmer’s righteous indignation was correct. “You’re right to be anti-Westminster,” he fumed at an aeroplane factory this...
“It is a radical vision but it is also a realistic one,” so said Rishi Sunak two summers ago. Many want to forget the leadership wars of that...
What’s going to be the most important number in British politics next year? Three hundred and twenty-six? – the number of seats for a...
Harold Wilson was fixated on political plotting and intrigue. He spent much of the 1970s in a paranoid state about a notional secret cabal within the...
Larry Summers is no tubthumping right-winger. The former president of Harvard University has long-standing links to progressive American politics –...
The Isle of Thanet is one of the more unlikely places for a political revolution. Lying on the eastern extremity of Kent, its remoteness gives the...
What is the most profoundly depressing document in Britain today? Not Nigel Farage’s invoice for his stint in the jungle or a list of the recent...
Andrew Neil called it one of the most important political moments of his life. As the 2019 election results rolled in, the doyen of broadcasting...
Andrew Neil called it one of the most important political moments of his life. As the 2019 election results rolled in, the doyen of broadcasting...
London’s Charing Cross Road was distinctly anxious last Saturday. As dusk fell and punters headed towards their evenings of enjoyment, gaggles of...
When and why did you join WhatsApp? If you’re in America, the answer is you still probably haven’t. But in Britain, you likely joined years ago...
Not for the first time, the future of the Western world will be decided at Bletchley Park. Yards away from the laboratory where Alan Turing’s...
Sajid Javid looked at me firmly and pledged “I will fix this.” It was early 2018 and the long-awaited Casey Review into community cohesion was...
You have to hand it to Sir Keir Starmer: he has finally learnt how to tell a story. The Labour leader has come some way since he delivered one of the...
Imagine a policy that, with a stroke of a pen, would pile more pressure on schools and cause fresh pain for a million parents. Imagine, at a time when...
In just one week, Sir Keir Starmer has made two blunders. Since becoming Labour leader, he has gradually tried to shift his party away from the...
A new Horizon has broken, has it not? Ripples of relief are emanating from British scientists as, after two years in the cold, we have joined the...