T HERE’S an old, perhaps apocryphal, story told about Michael D Higgins, long before his presidency, which those who read ...
The last time a Labour chancellor – Alistair Darling – warned of tough times ahead, the “forces of hell”, in his words, were ...
When Rachel Reeves stands at the despatch box to deliver her spring statement on Wednesday, she might begin with a parable: ...
Party members love the energy secretary, but Keir Starmer has already demonstrated his ruthlessness, says John Rentoul ...
Field Marshal Grigory Potemkin (d.1791) was the toyboy of Catherine the Great who allegedly tried to impress his empress by ...
Rachel Reeves’s speech next week is being crafted as a ‘re-education’ on Labour’s achievements amid gloominess and sinking ...
Michael Gove used his new role as Spectator editor to suggest his former Tory party colleagues should be ‘gasping in admiration’ at the PM. But joking aside, the Tory fear is he has captured the ...
Keir Starmer has governed in defiance of expectations. From the seat of 10 Downing Street, every policy announcement eschews ...
If the right unites, especially if Dominic Cummings, the inveterate plotter and ‘strategic genius’ (Barnard Castle rather undermined the genius label) gets into bed with Farage, the left could be in ...