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Parliament in the Age of Empire: The Hold of Tradition and the Obligations of Power Time and Politics: Parliament and the Culture of Modernity in Britain and the British World [...]

Boris Johnson believes that post-Brexit Britain is an exceptional, 'world-beating' power. Yet it has proved itself incapable of fulfilling its most basic responsibility: keeping its citizens safe JR Seeley infamously [...]

Britain's departure from the European Union ends an arduous two years and ten months since 29 March 2017, when Theresa May's government invoked Article 50 to give notice that it [...]

Dragged out by the English, Britain is leaving the European Union. Is the multinational state set for a long period of decline, or will it be able to find peace [...]

Boris Johnson won a remarkable victory by routing Labour in its old heartlands. But his dilemma is how to cement his alliance with the working class while the cultural establishment [...]

We are living through a revolution. It isn't quite the revolution many NS readers had been hoping for. But it is, nevertheless, a dizzying episode of upending change. This election [...]

Jo Swinson, the Lib Dem leader, began the campaign on a high. But her personal approval ratings have slumped and her party is struggling It was not supposed to be [...]

Melvyn Bragg End the Eton mess and start again What do I want? Fewer, if any, Etonians. John le Carre, who taught at Eton for three years, recently described them [...]

When the history of the 2019 general election is written, of how Boris Johnson managed to win a mandate for a catastrophic hard Brexit, a whole chapter should be reserved [...]

When Boris Johnson greeted Conservative MPs as the country's new leader on 23 July 2019, he told them his mantra was 'Dude': Deliver Brexit, Unite the country, Defeat Jeremy Corbyn--and [...]

How did the most successful conservative party of the 20th century become the agent for a national humiliation? How could a political party so firmly tied to power, not least [...]

As Brexit has blazed through British public life, torching our constitution, party system, economic ties and diplomatic relationships, its appetite has been fed by a combustible mix of loss, betrayal [...]

In February 2019, Conservative MP David Gauke noticed something strange happening in his constituency of South West Hertfordshire. Not only had there been an unusual influx of new members over [...]

AROUND THE WORLD, Brexit is widely seen as an exercise in populist politics. Many observers believe the 2016 referendum vote was won on the back of a toxic form of [...]

For a time, the political elite was as worried about Robert Kilroy-Silk as the media was captivated by him. The millionaire talk-show host transformed Ukip and railed against the disconnect [...]

Three years after leaving office, and in the midst of a deep political crisis, David Cameron is about to publish a book about his premiership. But can he justify his [...]

The pursuit of Brexit at all costs has led Britain to a moment of profound political and constitutional crisis. In this symposium, our contributors ask what this means for a [...]

The deed is done. The Conservative Party has imposed upon Britain, at a time of profound national crisis, a prime minister who is spectacularly unfit for the job, both morally [...]

From Johnson to Corbyn to Farage, our leading politicians are men without qualities. With them at the helm, Britain is heading for disaster Foreseeing the rise of fascism, in 1930 [...]

I'm not sure what kind of message I would leave in a bottle and float out in the flood of nationalisms deluging Europe and Britain. I guess the urgency of [...]

What is commonly called populism is more accurately described as the self-immolation of centrism, and with Theresa May's resignation and Nigel Farage's triumph in the European Parliament elections this process [...]

For much of the 19th century, from the time of the 1801 Act of Union, exasperated English politicians would periodically refer to Ireland as a 'Serbonian bog' for British governance. [...]

British politics are in a state of upheaval as aftershocks of the U.K.'s explosive decision to leave the European Union continue to register. Negotiations seem to be in impasse and [...]

Until recently, some Canadians referred respectfully to the 'Mother of Parliaments' in the United Kingdom and deferred to British practices of government as often superior to our own. We are [...]

Never in postwar British history has there been such a weak, divided, and poorly run Conservative government. Prime Minister Theresa May inherited the disaster of her predecessor David Cameron's 2016 [...]

The European Union's troubles continue. When Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France in 2017, with strong support from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the opportunity seemed ripe for real reform [...]

(GT) Gina MillerBUSINESSWOMAN AND ACTIVISTGINA MILLER, A BRITISH BUSINESSWOMAN Who CO-founded the wealth management firm SCM Direct, is a former Labour Party member and campaigner for transparency and scrutiny in [...]

The Conservatives have been described as the stupid party and the nasty party, but never, until now, the reckless party. Their notorious stupidity was unthreatening, reassuringly bovine, stolid and inert; [...]

In early September as MPs returned to Westminster I spoke to a former cabinet minister about the mood in the Conservative Party. 'We are in a state of civil war--it [...]

When Jeremy Corbyn was elected as Labour leader in September 2015, most of his fellow MPs regarded his unexpected victory in the same way that you might think of a [...]

ON THE NIGHT OF JUNE 23,2016, the ballots came in divided across the United Kingdom. The results looked more like a Bosnian election than a British one: 69 percent voted [...]

For a century Northern Ireland's republican MPs have refused to take their seats at Westminster. But is it their destiny to thwart a hard Brexit and launch Jeremy Corbyn into [...]

After the shocks of 2016, confidence is returning to Europe. Yet none of the crises that fractured the EU have been resolved The paradox of 2017 was that while the [...]

Combining an appetite for power with ideological vagueness and counterintuitive alliances, the world's most successful election-winning machine has done it again. Just as the Tory squires in the 19th century [...]

This general election has been described as the most pivotal since Margaret Thatcher's victory in 1979 heralded the new right's counterrevolution against the postwar consensus. If the Conservatives win a [...]

'Everyone of us knows we deserve to be punished,' says the frail old man before me in a hotel cafe. 'You and I for instance. What have we done this [...]

Why has our political discourse become so toxic? Andrew Marr explores the history of rhetorical violence in Westminster and Anoosh Chakelian charts the effects of inflammatory language in the country [...]

The Labour leader believes he can confound his disparagers inside and outside the party by inspiring another surge of support for the left at the next election, as he did [...]

Britain is in crisis. To recover we need to rediscover a sense of shame and acknowledge how many unforgivable things are happening in the country What is wrong with us? [...]

From Belgravia to Brixton, London soirees ore being UPENDED BY CONFLICTS over Britain's impending departure from the European Union. Pull up a chair. Imagine dinner at the Johnsons'. Celebrated author [...]

As the popularity of Dunkirk and Darkest Hour show, we remain entranced by the story of Winston Churchill and Britain's heroic resistance to Nazism. What are the lessons for Brexit [...]

On 24 June 2016, shortly after the Leave victory in the European Union referendum was declared, Anne Walker, a former IRA member, phoned the Warrington Peace Centre in Cheshire in [...]

On the afternoon of 23 June 2016, Beth Jenkinson, 19, entered the Wesley Memorial Church in central Oxford and voted for Britain to remain in the European Union. Jenkinson, the [...]

On the evening of 5 December, among the five-star splendour of London's Jumeirah Carlton Tower hotel, 300 of Britain's most senior EU supporters will assemble for the 'Exit from Brexit [...]

As a journalist, he fanned the flames of Euroscepticism. As a politician, he used Brexit to advance his own ambitions. Mendacious and disloyal, Boris Johnson is now damaging Britain's global [...]

Few London buildings better epitomise the impact that the Brexit vote has had on the market than 10 Hammersmith Grove, London. In the aftermath of the referendum, Aberdeen Asset Management's [...]