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ndrea Egan has been elected the new general secretary of Unison beating the incumbent Christina McAnea in a major blow to ...

Every consensus looks permanent until it suddenly isn’t. As Margaret Thatcher ascended, Labour consoled itself that she ...

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The anti-Semitic terror attack on Bondi Beach has dispelled the myth that the country is a sanctuary from the world ...

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A new row is brewing in the Labour party, this time over funding for councils. MPs are concerned that a new funding formula ...

Aside from being an indictment of the quality of ideas around, this says a lot about Britain’s failure to reckon with its ...

The relationship between Britishness and Jewishness is a tightrope walk, but Christmas Day is where the rapprochement ...

The case of the Coughing Major seems to me to be the seed that planted the great artificial tree of True Grift, a genre that ...

ack in 2015, Andy Burnham told me of the Labour leadership: “I’m not planning to run again – this will be the second time. I ...

Reiner’s films were never flashy in their intelligence, and they didn’t insist on being admired. They were attentive to how ...