Political Correspondent Peter Spencer reports on the assisted dying bill that's been passed through Parliament and the ...

The government’s talk of a ‘decade of renewal’ might sound like spin, but after looking for so long like she’s just swallowed a wasp, Ms Reeves does seem to be discovering the lost art of actually ...

Balancing the Books Karl Marx’s suggestion that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce, doesn’t seem quite right, because this summer’s threatened wave of strikes doesn’t feel ...

putin1984 Again With the world’s military and economic apparatus feeling fragile in Donald Trump’s hands, the Prime Minister is clearly channelling Winston Churchill’s famous wartime slogan. As our ...

On both sides of The Pond people are thinking about what’s in or may soon not be in their back pockets. For starters. It’s a nerve-wracking time Stateside, and uncomfortable here too. But, as our ...

In the week that saw students mostly but far from all whooping for joy over their A-level results, it’s worth asking how well our new government’s been performing in its first few weeks. Our Political ...

Prime Minister Starmer’s having to reprise Winston Churchill’s famous red tag with that three-word instruction on more fronts than he feared. Just a week into the job he’s getting the measure of quite ...

The plan is working. That’s Downing Street’s new mantra, as it clasps at the straw of slightly better news on the economy, at long last. Problem being, as our Political Correspondent Peter Spencer ...

Rishi Sunak can be forgiven for thinking it’s pealing, unappealingly, for him. He’s bought himself a few more months in Downing Street by ruling out a May election, but the behaviour of his own party ...

Surely the oldest trick in the book. When an argument is clearly being lost, best change the subject. Pronto. Cue the PM’s long-awaited and long overdue overhaul of the health service. As our ...

An ex POTUS banged to rights, in handcuffs? An English King addressing the German parliament, in German? A British government reprising Charles Dickens, with prison ships? All definitely historic, ...