Artillery Row

High Drama on the Podium

Norman Lebrecht on the late, great Mariss Jansons who died on December 1st

Whither the Lib Dems?

The fate that awaits the Liberal Democrats after such an awful election

Is Scottish Conservatism heading south? 

Graham Stewart on why a lot of ‘Cons Holds’ are actually too close to call

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