Rory Stewart has become the most senior Conservative to say that he will not serve in a Boris Johnson government, after the current frontrunner said that he would take the United Kingdom out of the…

Although we should be used to it by now, the sight of a US president casually lobbing around threats of nuclear war on social media is still remarkable. On 19 May, Donald Trump reverted to the…

“The Club”, as the members called it, as if there were no other, first met in 1764 at the Turk’s Head Tavern, off the Strand. It was founded to help Samuel Johnson get out of his own head, and he was…

David McKee was born in Tavistock in Devon in 1935. While studying at Plymouth College of Art, he began to sell his cartoons to newspapers. He is known for his children’s books “Elmer”, “Not Now,…

If Roe v. Wade is overturned, and anti-abortion fanatics in states such as Georgia and Alabama succeed in implementing their abortion bans, American women won’t stop having abortions. Research by the…

Vince Cable has announced the timetable for his replacement as leader of the Liberal Democrat leader, with the field of candidates to be confirmed on 7 June and the winner to be unveiled on 23 July.…

Boris Johnson has set out his stall on Brexit and it’s bad news for moderate Tories. Speaking at a conference in Switzerland shortly after May's resignation, he said that “a new leader will have the…

In the distant summer of 2016, when Theresa May entered Downing Street, she aspired to be a transformative Prime Minister in the mould of Margaret Thatcher and Clement Attlee. Britain’s economy and…

When I clicked the live link of Theresa May’s resignation, I wasn’t doing so to create a kind of Orwellian two minutes of hate for myself. I was ready to listen. Because like others, I’m still curious…

Boris Johnson has won an early boost in the Conservative leadership election, thanks to the timetable. CCHQ, and the backbench 1922 Committee, have set out how the process will work, with a series of…

There’s a growing consensus that many of the problems fuelling climate change should be tackled simultaneously, improving people’s lives while rapidly reducing environmental impact. Yet increasing…

Almost three years after the UK voted to leave the EU, and we’re still very much a member – and may be for some time yet. But anybody looking at a chart of net migration could be forgiven for thinking…

Theresa May announced this morning that she will resign as Conservative leader on 7 June. She will remain Prime Minister until a new leader is chosen by Tory members. “She did her utmost”, writes…

Theresa May will stand down as leader of the Conservative Party on 7 June, triggering a leadership election, the exact length of which has yet to be decided. She leaves behind one hell of a mess. She…

Theresa May’s resignation has lots talking about the “impossible situation” that she inherited from David Cameron. No-one can seriously argue that Brexit, and unpicking four decades of close economic…

I was sitting in L—’s drawing room with her and D—, who used to be my agent. We were talking about my circumstances, the fact that I was on the move again. “I can’t quite understand how you’re coping…

Theresa May will stand down as leader of the Conservative Party on 7 June, triggering a leadership election, the exact length of which has yet to be decided. She leaves behind one hell of a mess. She…

In February 2010, a few months before he became prime minister, David Cameron delivered a Ted talk in California titled “The Next Age of Government”. Appearing youthful in an open-collar shirt, he…

Anyone who questions my pessimism about the chances of serious action on global warming – or global heating, as the Guardian now calls it – should ponder the result of the Australian general election.…

Ever since the financial crisis economists have been adamant that inequality isn’t rising, but a recent announcement from the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) has reopened the debate. When measured…

You thought it couldn’t get worse? It certainly can. Britain now faces the very real prospect of Boris Johnson moving into N0 10 (with or without his current girlfriend). He would do so as the country…

The email arrived at 12.05pm. It contained the location of a feminist meeting to be held that night, less than seven hours later. “This information is confidential to ticket holders,” it warned. Why…

On New Year’s Day 1900, in a spirit of high optimism, the Swedish designer and social reformer, Ellen Key, published her design manifesto, Barnets Århundrade (The Century of the Child). The Italian…

Ed Miliband has praised Jeremy Corbyn for offering a “bolder vision” than the one he put forward as Labour leader, saying he “overplayed” the tension between “the need to change and the need to get…