Badenoch declared her intention to “reject the politics… that everything is broken”, while also pointing out that everything is broken. Protests against Israel’s obliteration of Gaza were “carnivals ...

After the Calais Jungle burned, the only migrants that remained were the birds. The square mile, where thousands of questing men looked north, has been rewilded with marsh flowers and rugged grass.

If anything can save the Tories now, it’s Downton Abbey: the Grand Finale.

Since the war in Gaza, Islamic State (IS) has called for its supporters to launch “revenge” attacks. “Strike the gatherings of the Christians and the Jews,” the group wrote in September in its ...

So perhaps we should be reassured by Kemi Badenoch’s revelation on the morning broadcast round that her favourite author is the literary legend Terry Pratchett. The Tory leader apparently has all but ...

Jilly Cooper, who has died aged 88, never claimed to be a serious novelist, yet few writers chronicled Britain’s ruling classes with such energy, mockery and appetite. For decad ...

But the danger is clear: if not death, then irrelevance. Like the Republicans in France, who found themselves assailed from the right by Marine Le Pen and from the centre by Emmanuel Macron, the ...

ndy Burnham is that rare thing at Conservative conference: a politician with power. “I’ll probably get a better reception here than I did last week,” he quipped at one of his three fringe appearances ...