UK Politics

Abysmal media incompetence but something deeper is at work

Don’t look a gift train in the mouth

With Labour again promising to talk in a language that the voters can understand, a new book asks whether the party’s historical myths are the problem

Nick Cohen reveals how this book, along with hundreds of political writers like him, ducks the reality of working class life

Jeremy Black says that the question is not whether the Conservatives should initiate a culture war but how far and how best to conduct a defence

What does the future hold beyond Brexit and Covid?

The APPG on Religion in the Media’s report into “religious literacy” in the media is deeply flawed in its understanding of Islam in particular

The newly announced Higher Education Bill won’t be the great champion of free speech that people think it will be

Tuesday’s Queen’s Speech to parliament confirmed that the government is yet to decide where it stands on freedom of speech

After losing Hartlepool to the Conservatives, the Labour Party would do well to take heed of Jon Cruddas’s new book