"POLITICS"

In the Ancient Greek Polis how else did the people make decisions about social behaviour? VALUES are IT! I recently read an account of an interview with Yvette Cooper, she…

Like a huge number of people I felt that we had suffered so much from Thatcher and her Favourite Son. Domestically we were discarding the achievements of the Attlee administrations…

In politics, there are two sorts of issues — those that matter and those that “cut through.” The latter are those which seize the popular imagination and shape perceptions of…

“This issue of politicians displaying contempt-for-public and contempt-for-Parliament has not gone away. In fact, it is more pressing than ever.”

PoliticsHome, an online political information site, issues a daily ‘breakfast briefing’ of selected top five stories. But today’s briefing has a black hole. One of the headlines reads: Tory MP…

The US House Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat has accused Republicans of tampering with a memo about claims of FBI surveillance at the 2016 election. Adam Schiff said Republicans had changed…

Our Man in London, David Skalinder translates the rise of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to American ears – from the credibility behind his radical “student politics,” to the accident…

A Triple Portrait: The Third Figure in the Frame  By Mariam Labban I have always been fascinated by British painters, Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, J. M. W. Turner, and John…

As Ramadan unfolds, so too does the war and with it, a stream of human stories. The days of the holy month can be counted with certainty, marked neatly on…

Donald Trump’s re-election marks not just a political turning point but the ascendance of a corpse-like order, a nation stiffening under the weight of its own decay. His second coming…