Andy Burnham: ‘I am committed to proportional representation’

Sun 31 May 2026

Never mind keeping our heads over AI, we’ve already lost them to the billionaires

Sun 31 May 2026

Reform candidate for Makerfield by-election called abortion ‘murder’

Sun 24 May 2026

Andy Burnham faces a high-risk battle for the soul of Ashton-in-Makerfield

Sun 17 May 2026

We needn’t worry about Claude’s ‘humanity’, it’s actually a question of semantics

Sun 17 May 2026

MPs may be forced to register pre-election donations in wake of Farage’s undeclared £5m gift

Sun 17 May 2026

Crypto tycoon Ben Delo heads home to UK to fund Reform after ‘tinpot’ donations cap by Labour

Sun 17 May 2026

Makerfield byelection could be ‘wild West’ of campaign financing

Sun 17 May 2026

How much trouble is Keir Starmer in?

Starmer vows to stay put despite backbenchers calling for him to leave

Mon 11 May 2026

Reform’s march heralds political fragmentation as two-party system pushed to brink

Sun 10 May 2026

Smashed and pulverised: Labour faces an existential crisis after election wipeout

Sun 10 May 2026

Nigel Farage hails ‘historic political change’ as Reform surge masks internal fears and paranoia

Sat 9 May 2026

Video: a truly, madly, deeply bad day for Labour

Sat 9 May 2026

SNP holds on to power as Scots stay home for ‘meh’ election

Fri 8 May 2026

Starmer should stay

Fri 8 May 2026

The hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship

How could the elections define the UK?

Judgment day is here, for Keir Starmer and his critics alike

Thu 7 May 2026

Watching the teal wall being built in Newcastle-under-Lyme

Thu 7 May 2026

Labour is braced for what fatalists are calling ‘Starmerggedon’

Sun 3 May 2026

Britain’s fragmented future: why this year’s local elections will be the messiest yet

Sun 3 May 2026

A famous fishmonger says politicians aren’t reading the room, just like ten years ago

Fri 1 May 2026

After a century together, Wales and Labour face a brutal divorce

Sun 26 Apr 2026

Budapest spring: Putin’s influence and European democracy at stake in Hungary election

Sun 12 Apr 2026

The pastor and the populist were once allies. Now Orbán wants his old friend silenced

Mon 23 Mar 2026

Britain’s only way out of this mess is a shift to the centre

Sun 22 Mar 2026

Fear and loathing in Gorton and Denton

Sun 22 Feb 2026

Labour bill doesn’t go far enough to stop foreign interference in UK politics

Mon 16 Feb 2026

Japan’s first female prime minister has won a historic victory

Tue 10 Feb 2026

Teens fear their peers can’t sort fact from fiction

Sun 8 Feb 2026

Pop star politician risks a second shot at leading Uganda

Mon 12 Jan 2026

Chatter of dethroning the prime minister is easy. Doing so is much harder

Sun 4 Jan 2026

Democracy’s ‘dark matter’ will decide the future of politics

Wed 31 Dec 2025

‘Wales should stick with Labour’

Wed 22 Oct 2025

Eccles ‘tactical bellwether’ in 2029 fight against Reform

Thu 11 Sept 2025

How to stop voters turning on you? Pick something to solve

Sun 24 Aug 2025

More ‘adultescents’ at the polls gets my vote

Fri 1 Aug 2025

Nigel Farage can’t stop playing dangerous games

Sun 27 Jul 2025

Opinion: African democracy winners are hard to find

Wed 30 Apr 2025