Holding together working- and middle-class voters has been Labour’s historic Achilles’ heel. Can Keir Starmer do what Clement Attlee couldn’t in 1950?

The cancellation of Gina Carano proves that freedom of expression in Hollywood is increasingly under threat

The spirit of Lockdown has paralysed the country, and the government itself

Britain’s bleak record with the slave trade makes a horrible story, but it is one not helped by getting it wrong

Where’s the reckless rogue Tory MPs elected leader? Who’s this square?

A leisurely unlocking to prevent a rise in infections, or something more political?

Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about Winston Churchill’s career up to 1940

From bonding over jokes about Jesuit teachers to becoming a persona non grata, David Smith recalls his relationship with Robert Mugabe

At a time when studios are afraid of investing substantial amounts of money in films without a guaranteed audience, it’s time to ditch the snobbery towards popular films

It is strange to think that a piece of wood on a board can be so emblematic of what it means to be human