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Pick up your pan, your spoon, your rice, and get stirring. Risotto is about to have a moment in Britain

We need Have I Got News for You and The Last Leg just as we needed Spitting Image in the 1980s – to reassure us that we aren’t all going mad

Like it or not, this will be a theme in the upcoming general election – we are living through a defining moment for the left

It might even be better for the Conservatives too, but I am less concerned about them than I am about Britain

Moving against Rishi Sunak now would almost certainly lead to further disaster. But disastrous polls mean that MPs still might do it

A new exhibition connects the work of over 50 women from across the world

In Britain, women with a health condition can sit in medical purgatory awaiting a diagnosis for up to three years. I’m one of them

Rishi Sunak, for all his public protestations, is pessimistic about whether he will be able to hang on until June

Columnist Sherelle Jacobs says leaving the EU has “spectacularly failed” - but only because we have not tried hard enough

If it hadn’t been for the civil servants that the Conservatives so gleefully denigrate, Britain would have fallen apart years ago

Rachel Reeves will need to confront failures that others have ignored

Britain’s universities and colleges are on the brink because of government policies

To dismiss ADHD while offering no supporting evidence is small-minded and overlooks Britain’s leading role in understanding the condition

The SNP are using a new referendum as a wedge issue in their fight against Labour

And 17% of those who backed Boris Johnson now say we should rejoin the bloc

How the Tories’ new deputy chairman is a symbol of the party’s bizarre transformation

The eye-catching tractor protests are justified from a stitched-up sector that mostly voted Leave

The only answer to our property problems is unlocking the ability to build more homes

If Reeves’ analysis is correct, her securonomics will eventually pay for itself

A cash crisis and post-Brexit changes mean another blow for the UK’s youth sector

The Independent has signed the Daily Express’s political editor, noted for his entertaining predictions

Pensioners who have benefited greatly from the triple lock should not get more at everyone else’s expense

Marchers for a return to the EU are to descend on the Mersey city

A show that celebrates the NHS is worthy, surreal but seldom involving

British under-30s are some of the unhappiest in Europe – where have they got that from?

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at George Galloway, David Maddox, Lee Anderson and more

Penny Mordaunt was back on the Conservative front bench days after she was placed at the centre of a plot

Crippling rent rises are fuelling calls to abolish landlords. But this so-called ‘easy fix’ must be resisted

If anyone’s “plan” is working, it’s the Bank of England’s

Church is one of the only places in London with black and white people doing something wholeheartedly together that isn’t working for the goddamn man

Tom Baldwin’s biography of the Labour leader suggests we will see a return to serious politics if Starmer makes it to No 10