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A new documentary delves into the life of the woman who outstoned the Stones

This is the best of Britain elevated by French technique

The Tory Party has been taken over by cynics and fantasists, says former Telegraph editor Max Hastings – which is why he has decided to vote Labour

This week, Keir Starmer needed to show, in policy terms, how life in Britain would change if he became prime minister

Manufacturers are crying out for a long-term strategy. The government won’t supply one. Can the Labour Party step in?

Here are my cultural highlights for the 2023 rentrée

It’s human nature to crave immortality, despite the pain and boredom that would accompany it

Britain’s political class is locked in a cycle of consensus on law and order that costs a lot and delivers little

I would take a wrecking ball to Buckingham Palace, one of the ugliest buildings in London

If the party’s mind-boggling conference is anything to go by, the Conservatives’ flight from reality is complete

Despite an invader on stage and an elephant in the room, Labour’s leader looks in control of his party and his destiny

The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

A broken Tory party would turn to a Farage comeback

The shadow chancellor is winning rave reviews, but needs to tackle productivity

Letting Labour hold their conference last is another Conservative blunder

Safety-first will not save Britain’s economy and Labour’s leader knows it

The Labour leader’s praise for Clement Attlee in a new book is significant

This strange, stale conference speech by a man of no vision won’t revive the Tories

The abiding memory of the Tories’ Manchester conference will be of a party embracing post-truth

Four days of shame in Manchester from the party of short-termism and moral bankruptcy

European fairy tales arrived on our shores 200 years ago – but the major part played by two London lawyers is all but forgotten

Every year, a French beauty spot devotes a weekend to UK movies. An eccentric outlier or a harbinger of a new post-Brexit entente cordiale?

In Liverpool, Labour needs to gather the kind of momentum that will bury the Tories for a generation

Polling suggests that a victory for the party at the next general election could be anything from a coalition to a landslide

Here’s a superb chicken dish – a hearty hotpot for autumn

An 89-year-old German is bringing 24-hour gambling to Britain’s town centres. Can he be stopped?

Parliament is falling apart and will cost billions to patch up. We should just flatten it and start again

Unless the Tory one-nation advocates can work out how to bring a wrecking ball to the party and reshape the whole thing, it’s screwed

Psychologically, absences felt in particular places matter to us. The gap left on Hadrian’s Wall will be felt by anyone who had visited the remarkable tree in situ

No, renegotiating with the EU won’t bring a swift end to red tape – and Labour should not pretend it will