Artillery Row

Diminishing returns

Why voters are switching off from the TV debates

The realignment election

Can the Tories win enough old Labour seats to compensate their losses elsewhere?

Death of a polymath

The great British opera director Jonathan Miller has died aged 85. Here is one of his last interviews

Mining for votes

Lewis Baston on the link between coalfields and the 2019 election

An appreciation of the late John Simon

Andrew Cusack remembers the apotheosis of criticism

The heir to Dave

This is the first election since Macmillan that the Tories are headlining on increasing the size of the state

Labour’s plan to turn back the clock on education

Corbyn proposes the most significant transferral of power back to town halls for more than a generation

Britain’s dismal choice

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn make this election a hold-your-nose-and-vote contest

Who won the party leaders’ Question Time?  

The PM came on one-and-a-half hours into the interrogation, by which stage some may have tuned out

The new model Brexit Party

“We are the new radicals” claimed Nigel Farage, as he launched his Contract with the People