"POLITICS"

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…

I can’t. But it is still with us. And I am not sure that it has changed so much either. What, perhaps, has happened is that it has lost its…

The historic decision means a second-round runoff that was scheduled for Sunday, when Georgescu would have gone head to head with his centrist rival Elena Lasconi, will no longer take…

Please let us not be scared of the word. In the 1780s academics in the University of Goettingen were looking for a word to stand for a family of languages…

There we were in the senate room of University College London sitting at a big round table. Outside the door, keeping guard in a sentry box on wheels was the…

when  we kids got out of hand at gran’s “It’s like Fred Karno’s Circus in here.”  By 1914 he was already in the new film industry where over the years…