The Holborn & St Pancras by-election is Andy Burnham’s first real test as Prime Minister. After assuring the public that he would be staying on as an MP until the next general election, Keir Starmer ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore is one of Britain’s most popular historians, the author of over a dozen books, both fiction and nonfiction, on historical themes. Long known as an expert in the history of ...

The party leader won with “overwhelming support” from local members By Megan Kenyon Zack Polanski has been selected as the Green Party candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. The ...

Banbury Lodge rehabilitation centre is a former care home in Oxfordshire with space for 20 residents. The manager Nick Dunkley shows me a common room where they come to relax. There’s a timetable on ...

A year after his assassination, the activist has had one of the strangest afterlives in political history By Alex Bronzini-Vender Hours after a bullet struck Charlie Kirk on 10 September last year, ...

Andy Burnham may not appreciate Keir Starmer’s parting gift By Jonn Elledge Four days after Andy Burnham won the Makerfield by-election, Keir Starmer resigned as prime minister. Four days after that, ...

Is Reform waving or drowning? Scandal dominated the party’s conference, but insiders remain convinced it can win power By Ethan Croft Those planning the 2026 Reform conference said their aim was to ...

Royal pupils at the school are not spared its torments By Emily Lawford In Exodus, Moses is tending to his flock when a bush bursts into flames and God’s voice calls out from within its leaves. At ...

This has become a country where men in balaclavas target lifeboat volunteers By Anoosh Chakelian When Mo, an English teacher from Iran, spent a year and a half staying at the Thistle City Barbican ...

The Church of England is dying. More than a third of congregants are over 70; in some dioceses that age group makes up more than half of worshippers. But as the Church ebbs, a reactionary, ...

Keir Starmer’s former left-wing challenger said he is “very sadly not in a position to stand this time round” By Megan Kenyon Andrew Feinstein, the independent candidate who challenged Keir Starmer in ...

The rise of a “New Left” grouping has exposed divisions within the Socialist Campaign Group. By George Eaton It was in December 1982, in the aftermath of the titanic struggle between Tony Benn and ...