There’s a nickname for House Speaker Mike Johnson shared among some Hill staffers and observers: “Deacon Mike,” a nod to his ...

After the horrific attacks at Frankland, after last week’s attack at Belmarsh, and after countless warnings, today’s news of ...

The UK economy grew faster than expected in the first three months of the year. According to figures just released by the ...

It will be like Liz Truss on roller skates. The next election may still be four years away, and the manifestos still need to ...

A week of diplomatic manoeuvring, ultimatums and psychological gambits has ended with a sadly predictable result: Vladimir ...

Sir Keir Starmer had a new song today at PMQs. The Tories are finished. He said it twice to Kemi Badenoch. It was a ...

Our prisons are nearly full to bust once again so the Ministry of Justice has been flying some kites ahead of the review of ...

They say that politics is all about priorities. But what happens when the public says you’ve got it wrong? Mr S has got his ...

The worst victims of South Africa’s African National Congress are not white Afrikaners, even if they are a vulnerable group.

Across Europe, Nanny’s influence is growing: there has been a steady erosion of liberty for those of us who like to eat, ...

The triumph of Mark Carney in the Canadian election has turned what seemed like a series of local flukes into a global trend.

Assisted dying has been a hot topic both north and south of the border this week, as Scottish politicians voted on Tuesday on ...