Andy Burnham doesn’t like to be rushed. Out and about, he likes to stop for a chat with members of the public. Advisers and ...

The 2026 Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the dangers on conflating authors with their characters and the difficulty of interpretation ...

It was a throwaway line, 18 careless words that Rachel Reeves surely could not have predicted would cause such chaos when she ...

How the former first minister of Scotland came to lead the opposition to Israel’s actions in Gaza By Peter Oborne Humza Yousaf, author of Under Fire, an important and painfully honest testament, could ...

It is an inherently dishonest way to run a country By Will Dunn In recent decades, a sinister new force has assumed power in Westminster. They can appear in any political party. They are formidable at ...

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The Sally Rooney affair shows how laws meant to target terrorism now suppress the freedom to dissent By Tanjil Rashid If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was ...

Why can’t our culture tear itself away from depictions of chemsex orgies in a sexual underworld? By Huw Lemmey At his May 2026 trial for possession of crystal meth, former MP Crispin Blunt’s story was ...

Ian Hislop is a journalist, broadcaster and satirist. He is the editor of Private Eye and a team captain on the BBC quiz programme Have I Got News for You. How should we celebrate Easter at this time ...

Following a nine-week trial, a jury at Chelmsford Crown court has today found 15 anti-deportation activists guilty of endangerment at an aerodrome, under legislation brought in… This case is further ...

Josh Glancy is editor of News Review at The Sunday Times. The bar for banning an artist from Britain should be unbelievably high Inside the fake news crisis at the community paper.

An open letter to the government from leading authors, artists and public figures By New Statesman Sally Rooney is a writer, ...