THE letter from Neil Findlay to Labour leader Keir Starmer was a heartfelt cri de coeur. A Labour activist over many decades and campaigns, ...

COMMENT: Party members love the energy secretary, but Keir Starmer has already demonstrated his ruthlessness, says ...

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 ...

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 ...

T HERE’S an old, perhaps apocryphal, story told about Michael D Higgins, long before his presidency, which those who read ...

Britons have been told to prepare for "two weeks of misery" ahead of Labour's Spring Statement, as a new poll reveals almost ...

I thought of it again when the Home Office published a report celebrating its ‘UK-wide blitz on illegal working to strengthen border security’ as part of a publicity drive designed to coincide with ...

Israel's horrific resumption of the war on Gaza shows that no US-backed ceasefire deal is worth the paper it is printed on ...

Field Marshal Grigory Potemkin (d.1791) was the toyboy of Catherine the Great who allegedly tried to impress his empress by ...

But as Starmer strains the loyalty of both his cabinet and the wider party, a Prime Minister often portrayed as cautious is ...