Over 100 days and one “reset” in and the commentariat agree: to recover from a poor start Labour urgently needs a story, a big or biggish overarching narrative about who the government is, what it ...

Alan and Lionel are joined by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, senior staff editor at the New York Times and former editor-in-chief at gal-dem, for a special edition of Media Confidential’s Q&A. What do ...

Sam Freedman is a senior fellow at the Institute for Government and senior adviser to the Ark schools network ...

Sending David Gauke to deal with prisons has a small element of Richard Nixon going to China. The appointment by the current Labour justice secretary of a former Conservative justice secretary to ...

Alan Rusbridger is the editor of Prospect and the former head of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He was editor of the Guardian from 1995 to 2015.

I can’t look at this particular self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh without thinking about sadness. The heavy, overbearing brow, the way his deep-set eyes turn upwards towards the top of his nose. Never ...

David Gauke’s sentencing review is the only way to tackle the prisons crisis Appointing the former Tory justice minister is a good move, but also shows why our political system can’t deal with ...

As world leaders gathered in New York for the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, few would have had Resolution 2758 uppermost in their minds: most attention was focused on the continuing horrors ...

Avraham Burg is an Israeli author and the former Knesset speaker ...

Stephen Oppenheimer's books "The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story" and "Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World" are published by Constable & Robinson ...

The United Kingdom accepted the weakness of its legal and diplomatic position by assenting to transfer the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands—nominally the “British Indian Ocean Territory”—to Mauritius ...