In the mad world of the British far right, faith and thuggery jostle for attention By Emily Lawford On the road to Parliament Square, men kept stopping Kate to tell her she was beautiful. She was a ...

Rather than a relic of the past, Britain’s best known classist sees the ancient world as a powerful tool for understanding the present. By NS Podcasts Rather than a relic of the past, Mary Beard sees ...

Nicola Sturgeon’s now estranged husband has brought shame on the SNP By Chris Deerin Peter Murrell was never one for the public eye. He was the archetypal backroom operator, forever lurking in the ...

If Andy Burnham succeeds in the Makerfield by-election next month, Labour will immediately face a new challenge: a Greater ...

Should the UK rejoin the EU? Caroline Lucas and Anand Menon weigh in By Caroline Lucas and Anand Menon On 11 May, following the disastrous results of the local elections, Keir Starmer delivered a ...

Despite long-standing debate over reform, MPs have no formal power over military intervention. By George Eaton For the first time since becoming Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak has authorised military ...

Is Donald Trump losing interest in US politics? The president is more concerned with basking in power than fighting the Democrats By Freddie Hayward Donald Trump is as much a collection of images as ...

The author of Taiwan Travelogue and her translator Lin King speak on making art about a country under threat By Catharine Hughes This week, Taiwan Travelogue, a book rejected multiple times by ...

What is politics? Clichés are likely to abound in response to this question. The dirty pursuit of power, or the noble pursuit of the good life? It is, of course, both of these things and more. But for ...

The insurgent politics sweeping the UK has arrived north of the border By Chris Deerin Five more years. A quarter-century of Nationalist rule. The SNP have emerged from yet another Holyrood election ...

There is no such thing as the “Asian community”. The label was imposed on a generation of migrants a In the wake of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto we revisit our October special on Pakistan in ...

The UK is deploying facial recognition and AI tools at scale. The law is playing catch up By Rhi Storer In April, the Home Office announced £115m of new funding to create the “Police.AI” centre. Its ...