Ed Miliband’s green energy strategy is high risk – and, at worst, his plans are an act of folly that will lead to higher ...

Sarah Koenig had a confession to make to the 2,000-odd people gathered at London’s Southbank Centre: despite having created ...

The seat of Sittingbourne and Sheppey has been a bellwether since its creation in 1997. Nestled on the Kent coast between the ...

It is one of English fiction’s great displays of “cruel to be kind” parenting. Mitford thought her original essay a trivial exercise, and promised it would contain “a volley of teases”. But for a time ...

The Gates of Kyiv explores the friendship between the composer and the pianist Maria Yuduna – and the horrors of Stalinism.

The Dilnot reforms, as they have since come to be known, included a lifetime cap on care costs and, under the coalition government, had been due for implementation in 2017. Burt’s phone call brought ...

Sentencing reform is a tough sell for the law-and-order loving British public.

One of the most extraordinary aspects of the Trump campaign’s denunciation of Labour activists flying over to campaign for ...

On 16 October, with 20 days to go until the election, Kamala Harris strode on to the stage in Washington Crossing, ...

On a journey through Ukraine, the Labour peer identifies the ancient tracks linking pogroms against Jews in eastern Europe to ...

Should we avoid reporting reality simply because it isn’t new? Plus: unease at the Observer and the tragic death of Liam Payne.

The enemy of Putin survived the first attempt on his life. His memoir Patriot reveals why he returned to Russia to face ...