The last time Andy Burnham and I were in touch, I’d messaged him to apologise for changing the time of our interview because ...

Behind the silliness and relentless action of Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest thriller is a timely statement about America’s rightward drift.

The painter’s retrospective at the Royal Academy presents a sweeping challenge to Western art’s exclusion of African-American figures ...

A leaked email suggests McSweeney may not have been totally honest during an investigation into the funding of Labour ...

Starmer faces not the neo-Marxists of the 1980s but a “soft left” challenge led by Andy Burnham, fighting on policies those ...

While Keir Starmer focuses on the threat of Reform and the populist right, is his real problem a resurgent progressive ...

If the Home Secretary solves the small-boats crisis, the party has a fighting chance of winning the next election ...

This, then, is Starmer’s riposte to both Farage and Burnham: you are not serious people. His recovery depends on persuading both country and party alike that he and his team are.

Farage has been haunting Bournemouth. Toy figurines of the Reform leader were handed out to journalists, badged up as a ...

A national social democratic party has no choice but to marshal these forces. Nationalism has always been capable of progressive and reactionary expressions: it looks backwards to pre-modern ...

If your backbenchers don’t support these changes, work with the other parties to drive them through. Start showing some ...

The EU relations minister on Keir Starmer’s determination to cling on, and the UK’s changing relationship to Europe ...