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Every new British premiership is baptised in tears of joy and exultation. Glad confident morning! But all end in tears of sadness, anger and recrimination. The only issue is how [...]

Ever since Ramsay MacDonald headed the first exactly 100 years ago, Labour governments have begun with a bang and ended with a whimper. No bang was more instantaneous than Gordon [...]

J'Accuse! The guilty men and women of the Brexit debacle Roll up, roll up for the Brexit blame game, it's waiting to take you away. Not since Robert Walpole became [...]

Prime ministers all face a critical moment: before it, they can do little wrong; after it, almost nothing right. For John Major it was Black Wednesday in September 1992; for [...]

Five Year Mission: the Labour Party Under Ed Miliband Tim Bale Oxford University Press, 306pp. 10.99 £ No quality matters more in an author, at least in the eyes of […]

I spent all weekend clearing out the house in Buckingham with my three children. Joanna, my dearly loved wife, who died of cancer in 2016, never threw anything away. Knee-deep [...]

A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond Daniel Susskind Allen Lane, 336pp. 20 [pounds sterling] The challenge posed to humanity by artificial intelligence (AI) will be [...]

Your report of a discussion on mental health (BACP round table, 20 July) said 'schooling stuck out as a sore point'. You bet. The report did not mention the name [...]

The article discusses the political background leading to the referendum for a British exit from the European Union (EU), known as Brexit. Topics include public opinion about British Prime Minister Theresa May, British national identity in relation to social conflict regarding Brexit, and the lack of potential political leaders to serve as prime minister in the future.