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 ...

The most important thing for any captain is not to capsize the ship By Andrew Marr The most significant big-picture take on this year’s Budget came before it was delivered, from the New Statesman’s ...

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 ...

July 1997: What to make of the Labour government’s first budget? An open letter to the government from leading authors, artists and public figures This column is our weekly pub review, written by ...

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.

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The party is split after voting to define Zionism as racism By Megan Kenyon Green Party members backed a motion to describe Zionism as racism on Sunday (4 October), with 1022 votes for and 813 votes ...