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Labour’s short-sighted u-turn on open access to the countryside continues the unfair status quo

In the UK and the US, political parties must accept that trade unionism is on the rise

A new crop of hardline Christian fundamentalists think they should decide what’s taught in British classrooms. They’re just as sinister as their US counterparts

That was Suella Braverman’s verdict on immigration - and it is now the verdict on a politician setting her sights on No.10

The American actor's solo show is eloquent - if sometimes self-indulgent

Their idiotic interventions about Saturday’s protest have made a delicate situation much worse

We’ve been pretending for too long that nothing happened. But it did. And we need to talk about it

This was the time to tackle failing apprenticeships and the lack of an industrial strategy - it didn’t happen

Backstairs Billy captures the charm of an eccentric keeper of royal secrets

Richard Ansett’s photograph of the artist at Beachy Head sums up Brexit in a single shot

The public wants, and expects, government to solve its own problems but this government is not equipped to do so

Why our columnist has taken to de-evangelising evangelists

Boris Johnson’s lack of focus and lack of humanity cost lives during Covid. Yet instead of facing charges, he is raking in the cash

Could the prime minister really lose his seat at the next election? A visit to his North Yorkshire constituency reveals the locals are true blue... for now

The damage Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings did to the country is off the scale

The new brand of Conservatism they sponsor is more disturbing than any cynical opportunism – and Sunak really believes this stuff

Nearly 60% demand more details of how think tanks are funded - and findings show right wingers are less transparent than those on the left

Cruella Braverman’s proposed new laws will make it illegal to even have mean thoughts about the Conservatives

The King’s Speech shows a government out of ideas and running out of time

Sunak has stooped to cheap sensationalism and the country deserves a leader who aims higher

The supply of drugs, including of antibiotics, is being squeezed

The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

Life for most people under 40 has been made needlessly complicated by this government. Making parenthood unaffordable is just one example

The crisis has put the Labour leader between a rock and a hard place

Thanks to higher costs, increased red tape and supply chain damage, we must get used to living in a country with empty shelves

If the Conservatives lose the next general election on the scale of their 1997 defeat, it will be a very long time before they can hope to win again

Post-Brexit Britain slides ever-further down the EU’s list of priorities

There is a glaring problem with the way we choose prime ministers

The Premier League’s crisis club is facing more turmoil and a potential points deduction

The 7 Deaths of Maria Callas is framed around a catalogue of operatic demises

The PM’s tone-deaf remarks in his weird AI chat again shows he is useless at politics