1+ hour, 55+ min ago  (1151+ words) How Labour chose warfare over welfare, and why its founders would approve On 4 January 1884, in a London drawing room, a handful of middle'class intellectuals founded the Fabian Society. They were not workers. They were clerks, writers and academics. Within two…...

22+ hour, 2+ min ago  (868+ words) Nigel Farage wants you to believe he is walking on hot coals. He is filling in a form, and he still might not manage that correctly. The English plea rolls record no further cases after 1219, when Henry III formally recognised…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (459+ words) Andy Burnham is about to become prime minister on the strength of what he built in Manchester. Before the country signs up to the national version, it is worth reading exactly what he built, and what even his own sympathetic…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago  (699+ words) In two years, this government has arrested more than three thousand people for holding placards, made it a crime to stand outside a politician's front door, moved to take the jury box away from defendants, and handed a surveillance contractor…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (981+ words) While Westminster argues about warfare and welfare, the real security of the British people has already been signed away. The receipts are in the British Medical Journal, and the bill will be paid in lives. Every protection racket works the…...

3+ week, 20+ hour ago  (539+ words) A government with no direction has sailed Britain into deep water. This week, somebody started shooting. This week, in the busiest shipping lane on earth, Britain took another step into that catalogue, and almost no one was asked. Say it…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (1008+ words) the safety and happiness of our children." It is a good sentence. It is meant to be. And it performs a precise piece of work: it moves the argument off the only question that matters. Because the policy does not…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (325+ words) A government that cannot fund its own defence sends commandos into the Channel to prove that it can. Watch the footage if you like. Just understand it is the hand you are meant to watch. Three days. That is the…...

4+ week, 2+ hour ago  (1685+ words) Today, St Helens Council leader announced his council would cut all funding for LGBT Pride events in town Around 75% of UK Pride organisers reported reduced corporate sponsorship, and around 25% reported sponsorship losses of more than 50%. So ask the question the…...