They looked at me with serene attention, they seemed almost to be following me with their eyes.” The Volga Rises in Europe by ...

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The party will soon discover councils have almost no money left.

The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is thus refusing to countenance free movement for students, even though it’s about the ...

The leader of Reform UK is an extraordinarily protean politician and more pragmatic than is generally understood.

Reform is a monster created by the right-wing media’s anti-immigration, anti-net zero and anti-woke obsessions. But following ...

Trumpism thrives on the misery of its followers – and we are all unhappier for it.

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The late British writer produced novels haunted by uprootings, death, and the twilight of the British Empire.

To sum up: on tax, Europe, net zero and immigration there are ways for Labour to take on, rather than merely mimic, Reform.

The problem with Reform, a Labour MP told me at the start of this week, is that they’re hopeless at expectation management.