Innovation
An interview with Sadiq Khan
Labour’s candidate for London’s mayoralty discusses his plans for the capitalTHE two incumbents of London’s mayoralty, created in 2000, have both been colourful and independent-minded individuals. Ken Livingstone was...
The “emergency brake” is only symbolic, but it will probably work
IT TELLS you a lot about David Cameron’s dinner in London last night with Donald Tusk that the press could not subsequently decide whether it was a coup or...
An interview with Dominic Cummings
IN MY column this week I profile Dominic Cummings, a former government adviser who is now campaign director for Vote Leave, the largest of the groups vying to lead...
Blame the British public for the junior doctors’ strike
AT EIGHT this morning junior doctors in England began a 24-hour strike during which they are providing only emergency cover, equivalent to that provided on Christmas Day. Patients have...
The Labour Party is heading for a showdown on Trident
AS RESHUFFLES go, Jeremy Corbyn’s tweaks to his shadow cabinet were relatively few. They were, however, momentous. In a marathon of meetings spanning three days (tired and hungry lobby...
Everything you need to know about Labour’s rolling crisis
SOMETHING remarkable is happening in British politics. In September the Labour Party elected Jeremy Corbyn, one of its most far-left and rebellious MPs, to its leadership after a campaign...
Labour’s sensibles are starting to push back—but they should push harder
THE political implications of the attacks in Paris are only just starting to unfurl. But there are early indications that one might be the accelerated growth of (ultimately inevitable)...
David Cameron is playing a self-inflicted bad hand well
AFTER months of vague talk about “renegotiating” Britain’s EU membership and a flurry of visits to European capitals by the prime minister and his lieutenants, the moment had come....