Westminster creates the mess. Then the Prime Minister uses that mess as an excuse to keep Scotland trapped in the system that caused it. That’s hypocrisy. Scotland deserves the powers to tackle our ...

Our Writer at Large covered the Northern Ireland Troubles extensively. Here, he remembers the lives lost over Drumcree and says Loyalist protestors…

Although we’re living longer, the data on healthy life expectancy in the UK isn’t good. Andy Burnham must reverse this trend to protect the NHS and social care, says public health academic Prof Devi S...

Exclusive: Creation of GB Grid will be major step towards putting Britain’s utility companies into public control Andy Burnham will take the first major step to putting Britain’s utility companies into public control on Tuesday, as he announces a new government-backed body to invest in the electricity grid. The prime minister will use his first conference speech as Labour leader to announce the creation of GB Grid, which will use money previously allocated to Great British Energy to compete with privately owned companies such as National Grid. Continue reading...

Sky’s ‘The Wargame’ may be fiction but the defence vulnerabilities it reveals are very real

Selon M. Zelensky, une entreprise pharmaceutique et des stations-service ont été touchées à Kiev, ainsi qu’un centre d’affaires à Dnipro et des infrastructures civiles, des entreprises et des installations de télécommunications dans d’autres villes et régions du pays. Le président ukrainien et le maire de Kiev signalent des morts et des blessés.

I was shocked to hear at lunchtime - via a text from my old friend Roseanna Cunningham - that  the prolific and prize winning author (and...

Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’