Wednesday 12 November saw the inaugural Smart Thinking Awards for UK think tanks, in recognition of the work that goes on behind the political scenes. And a couple of entries are worth flagging, if we ...

He has a powerful novelistic glower (browed, perceptive), and what I unforgivably think of as a “novelistic” accent (baritone, Oxford). But otherwise, he seems unburdened by the transition from the ...

Does Keir Starmer realise how much trouble he’s in? The Prime Minister is facing a crisis of contempt among his own MPs By Ailbhe Rea If contempt is the single biggest predictor of a relationship ...

A struggle between Your Party officials and the MoU Ltd directors over the transfer of funding rattled on until the end last month, when, on 29 October, Zarah Sultana (who is currently in the process ...

As Mulgan understood, in such moments, such a loss of intellectual energy can quickly give way to a much more corrosive pessimism in which it becomes impossible even to imagine things improving – an ...

At a gig in Kentish Town, the rap frontman reveals an uncomfortable relationship with his present pariah state ...

om McTague, at the end of his Editor’s Note (7 November), quotes a declaration by Richard Crossman in the 1963 Jubilee edition of the New Statesman: “The long winter of our discontents seems to be ...

Rumours are swirling that another Labour MP with leadership ambitions is using an intermediary to block rivals ...

As his name suggests, Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97) remained true to his origins. While other Georgian artists shed their provincial status – we don’t talk of Joshua Reynol ...

If all that makes it sound like Nandy was struggling to decide on which side of the fence she was on, it’s because she was. Or rather, her line was simultaneously that it is right for the BBC to face ...

But his recent snaps are iconic for all the wrong reasons. One has Trump standing behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office as everyone else rushes to help a man who had fainted during a press ...

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