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Kemi Badenoch’s announcement of a Conservative party inquiry into a British withdrawal from the European convention on human rights (ECHR) should...
Since Donald Trump scolded Volodymyr Zelenskyy with the words “You don’t have the cards right now,” Ukraine has been keener than ever to...
Inequality between British regions is not a new problem and Rachel Reeves is not the first chancellor to want to close the gap. In 2014, George...
A full, independent investigation into the killings of Palestinians attempting to collect food for their family, and accountability for their deaths,...
A boost to Sure Start-type investment in local children’s services is expected to feature in next week’s spending review – even while a more...
With the prime minister’s Churchillian claims that “the front line is here”, the public might expect a military posture that meets the drama of...
When the government’s 10-year health plan is published in July, prevention is expected to get a promotion. This won’t be the first time that...
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children,” Nelson Mandela observed 30 years ago....
The museum of the future has arrived and it looks like an Amazon warehouse. But art critics have unanimously awarded it five stars. From Saturday,...
The Conservative party may be sliding into the abyss, as Sir Keir Starmer suggests, but Labour would be foolish to imagine that it is insulated from...
The most obvious social housing problem in Britain is the lack of it. The failure to build enough homes to keep up with need, and replace those sold...
If one thing is more challenging to the rule of law than a genuine emergency, it is the invention of a phoney one. Since returning to the White House...
According to article 2 of the treaty of the European Union, the EU is founded on respect for human dignity in societies where “pluralism,...
The startled joy that greeted Bashar al-Assad’s fall less than six months ago was always shadowed by the fear of what might follow. Hundreds of...
The recent deterioration of conditions for young offenders has been overshadowed by the wider crisis engulfing prisons in England and Wales. But the...
Last July, concluding his election victory speech after winning in Clacton, Nigel Farage announced that after inflicting grievous damage on the...
Did last week mark a sea change in British politics? For many, it did. The government’s U-turn on winter fuel payments signalled a welcome retreat....
Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful” budget squeaked through the US House of Representatives last Thursday – a shiny populist package hiding a...
In his classic study of the 17th-century Dutch golden age, The Embarrassment of Riches, the art historian Simon Schama showed how the biblical story...
The independent sentencing review for England and Wales under David Gauke is a landmark response to both an immediate crisis in the prisons and to an...