It is much to Sir John Chilcot's credit that the hearings of his Iraq inquiry will largely be held in public - starting tomorrow in Westminster
Read full article...Earlier this year, while preparing a Radio 4 series on Britishness, I spent a day in Leicester interviewing its citizens about national identity
Once in a while, a movie comes along that has genuine social and political content and deserves to be treated as a commentary on contemporary mores as well as a regular cinematic experience
As my text for the coming week in politics, I pray for an outburst by No 10 enforcer Malcolm Tucker, from the wonderful new series of The Thick of It
What is the French for "Things Can Only Get Better"? Something, I suppose, along the lines of: "Les Choses Ne Peuvent Que S'améliorer"
Just when you think the match is over, it turns out there's a second leg: or, in this case, Legg
It isn't as easy as it looks, is it? As the Conservative conference opens in Manchester today, David Cameron and his team have been given an unwelcome taste of what it is like to experience the full blast of pitiless scrutiny that comes with government - or, in their case, the assumption that you will very soon be in office. And, as ever with the Tory Party, it is Europe that has delivered the slap across the face.
On the eve of the Tory Conference, Matthew D’Ancona reveals the Shadow Cabinet battle plan and the secret fears of what might still go wrong
Future historians trying to understand New Labour’s decline and fall should watch the Prime Minister’s interview with Andrew Marr


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