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It wasn’t always like this. The British right was once respectable. It might have been objectionable or wrong in any number of ways, but it was at...
This evening, Britain’s most perceptive and devastating political programme returns to our screens. It isn’t Question Time or Newsnight. It...
One of the key elements of Donald Trump’s political agenda is cruelty. This is not a bug. It is a feature. Over and over again, he demonstrates...
Keir Starmer showed how to defeat populism. That is the key fact of this year. It is so big, and so obvious, that people seem to forget it, but it...
Across Europe, the far right is in power, or agitating for it, or on the cusp of securing it. In 2025, European liberal democracy will be in a...
Every day, the same doom and despair. Every day, a new bouquet of pessimism. The latest GDP figures show the economy shrinking. The latest polling...
Nick Thomas-Symonds is not an easy man to read. He sat there at the Lords European Affairs Committee hearing yesterday – stony-faced, speaking at a...
They come out every night. They’re shot at with rubber bullets and they’re fired upon by water cannons and they’re detained and they’re...
You may have heard of the online petition for a general election. It’s causing a lot of excitement in right-wing circles. Even the leader of the...
Sometimes the world changes violently. It’s so sudden, so quick, that you feel like the ground underneath you has shifted. And in those moments you...
What a silly, wasteful mess this has been. What a shoddy tale of squandered potential. The Sue Gray saga has now reached its logical conclusion. It...
Following the Republican Party’s historic victory in the US elections, three i writers ask whether Donald Trump’s America can still be described as...
Nearly every result that comes in – from counties to states, marginals to strongholds – shows the same pattern: Kamala Harris performing slightly...
This was an immense work of economic authorship. It was, barring wars or pandemics, the most consequential Budget we will see for the next five...
The furore over Labour activists travelling to the US is utter nonsense. It involves Donald Trump. It’s pretty much nonsense by definition. If the...
Even by Westminster standards, the Taylor Swift story is the most unimaginable godawful bilge. It is baseless. It is inane. It erodes the...
It really doesn’t matter what task you set the modern Conservative Party. It can be simple or complicated, large or small. It’s irrelevant....
There was only one reasonable conclusion you could draw after two interminable hours of Tory leadership speeches. It was that James Cleverly was...
Every day another attack. Every day another salvo, another damning headline. Sue Gray, Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, gets more critical articles...
In 10 years, Scottish independence has achieved precisely nothing. Today marks a decade since the referendum. In that time we’ve seen anger,...
So now they’re finally paying attention. Now, after years of failure, elements of the right-wing press suddenly care about the state of the...
No matter how often we witness Tory insanity, the party still has the ability to surprise us. It’s an extraordinary accomplishment, in its way. You...
We are heading back towards Europe. It is going to take a long time. It is going to be difficult, frustrating and probably really rather...
Even by his standards, it’s been a tawdry spectacle. Even by his standards, he’s behaved despicably. Every day, Nigel Farage commits a new outrage...
The scenes in Southport last night are enough to rob you of any lingering faith in humanity. They are horrific beyond our capacity to describe with...
We’ve got our first indication of which way the Tory leadership race is going. Needless to say, it will be a disaster. And that disaster is likely...