The government wants to reset its relationship with organised labour – but history shows this won’t be an easy task.

Sue Prideaux’s biography of the unruly French painter shows his story was more complicated than that of colonial seducer.

“S umer is icumem in,/Lhude sing cuccu ” – or “Summer is here,/Loudly sing, cuckoo” – are the opening lines of a much-anthologised medieval poem-song. Well, summer is just about done now and we’ve had ...

Equally, there was far more to Gustav Holst than his world-famous, frequently performed and endlessly recorded (there are ...

For while the cash rewards of news ownership may be diminishing, the political rewards are as dazzling as ever. The rutting ...

Inside the fake news crisis at the community paper.

Voters are losing their sense of what Keir Starmer’s Labour is for. He must use his conference speech to tell them.

Party conference season is in full swing and I am in sunny Brighton with the Liberal Democrats. As I walk along the beach I ...

The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being ...

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At the entrance to the Department of Health and Social Care is a ten-foot timeline of all those who have  led the ministry. It is a visual reminder of Labour’s wilderness years: eight Conservative ...

The evening certainly shifted the dial, but it won't decide the election. By Ben Walker Kamala Harris can relax this week, knowing a clear majority of Americans thought she demolished Donald Trump in ...