Democracy

Elections alone don’t make a democracy. Britain’s institutions are under strain, and trust in the state is slipping

He is attacking critics while rewarding loyalists

How can they be old enough to vote but not old enough to use social media?

Will the establishment allow Reform to succeed?

Voters learned about the grim realities of assisted dying in practice

An attempt to criminalise going to the homes of elected officials is unjustifiably broad

The ancients knew that having a high-trust democracy could not be taken for granted

Keir Starmer represents the failure of a whole social order

Labour politicians must accept that they do not have the natural right to the nation’s support

The system is the problem, not Keir Starmer