Anti-feminists believe her rape allegations prove them right

If this was a moment for Polanski to show leadership, he has failed

They believe young and affluent voters will be their salvation

October 1986: The ethics of Jeffrey Archer – and his pursuers

He is a symptom of the party's malaise, not its cure

The Tory grandee believes "you don't win arguments by hiding away"

The President appears to be bored by his duties

Its appeal is in the forging of memory as much as the story itself

Cline’s new novel Switzy follows a wealthy man’s last days as he heads to a euthanasia clinic

Salted cod and sandwiches doused in gravy?

And these people are not the nice, polite kind of crackhead

Rebecca Perry's May We Feed the King asks how much stillness a novel can hold

The show's cultural dominance proves that we are all deferential homebodies

And the club's fanbase is in denial that they have ever done anything wrong

This year’s six-person shortlist for the £10,000 award for fiction that “breaks the mould” is led by established writers from the speculative fiction genres.

We have entered a new era of state-backed shadow warfare

Why can't we just swerve between rage and indifference?

The PM wants a decade in power

Irony is about as much an aspect of Northern Ireland's politics as compromise

Nigel Farage? The Tories? It's anyone's guess

The Chancellor made frequent references to his former boss, Gordon Brown, in his party conference speech

The Prime Minister’s former rival is now a loyal point-man

The general secretary of Unite the union has called on Burnham to un-freeze income tax thresholds at the upcoming budget

In Swansong, he claims to speak on Diana's behalf, but only reveals how little he understood her

From Tony Blair to today's members, the Labour world wants Burnham to shift towards Europe

The son of the imprisoned media tycoon Jimmy Lai is on a mission to free his father

English football used to be plagued by riots, violence and deaths. Why are we nostalgic for it?

The fight to be the party of the right is on

The US president staged an elaborate welcome for his Chinese counterpart

The group has urged the PM to include a commitment to the policy in his conference speech

This study of the sex lives of women in antiquity offers dildos and kink but nothing in the way of intellectual titillation

The new Sense and Sensibility lacks the subtlety of the novel – and of previous adaptations

Politics demands our chancellors take the blame for things they cannot control

To undo Thatcher’s legacy, Burnham must reckon with our country’s social conservatism

The former cabinet minister on the dirty deals behind the No 10 takeover, and what Labour should do next

The far-right agitator slashed a dinghy with a lifeboat crewmember still onboard

Outsourced workers on publicly owned TransPennine Express will stage a walk out