Paul Holden, The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, and the Crisis of British Democracy. New York: OR Books, 2025. 534pp. $26 More than a half century ago, Ralph Miliband’s Parliamentary Socialism ...
The seismic power that drives an earthquake takes a while to build; and the longer it builds, the bigger the ultimate jolt. Such is the logic behind the political earthquake that has just struck the ...
“The crisis of British democracy is finally here,” thunders Commentary’s Seth Mandel. Last Wednesday, “the opposition Scottish National Party put up a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in ...
LONDON — Russia’s intelligence services targeted high-profile British politicians, civil servants and journalists with cyberespionage and “malicious cyberactivity” as part of sustained attempts to ...
A figure in a silver cape and a huge cylindrical helmet stands in front of a field of nettles in North Yorkshire. In the near distance is a market town, nestled beneath a Norman castle keep. Speaking ...
A celebration in Paris following the release of early election results in the second round of France's legislative election on Sunday. (Olympia De Maismont/AFP/Getty Images) There was absolutely ...
The British government has banned left-wing political commentators Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur from entering the U.K. They were scheduled to speak at the SXSW London festival and the Oxford Union ...
TWO OF THE most entertaining British political diarists of recent times, Gyles Brandreth and Alan Clark, both Conservative MPs, once sat down in the House of Commons tearoom to draw up a list of ...