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The Conservatives have turned a promising national upgrade into an absurdity, says writer and journalist Jonn Elledge

Reissued as a Penguin Classic, the late Nigerian-born novelist’s debut work evokes life at the mercy of the welfare state in London with a sharp and wry eye

As many as 30 councils are at risk of bankruptcy and the UK’s local government funding system is “completely broken”, according to a new survey of the sector.

Peter Wilby, former editor of the Independent on Sunday, had more than 100 indecent images of children on his computer

A FORMER aide to Health Secretary Steve Barclay has called for the “full privatisation” of the NHS.

Although for decades he was greeted by cries of “on your bike” wherever he went, Norman Tebbit never told anyone to get on a bike, said John Elledge in The New Statesman. He merely recalled, at the Tory conference in 1981, that during the Depression, his father had pedalled around…

“I love competition, and turning rejuvenation into a scientifically valid competition is very exciting,” Zolman once said.

Keir Starmer is performing a careful balancing act between maintaining his party’s economic credibility and defending a policy that is deeply unpopular among the majority of Labour MPs and supporters.

Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Diane Abbott: back in 2015 they were heralded as the left-wing “triumvirate who took control of Labour”.

It is a long acknowledged rule in British politics that a prospective party of government must identify its target demographic with an easily defined stereotype.

Just one day before polls open in England for the 2023 local elections, Labour is continuing to enjoy healthy double-digit leads, pointing to a potentially bruising result for Rishi Sunak in his first big test since becoming prime minister and Conservative leader in October.