The Glasgow Pact agreed at COP26 requires that every major country produces new 2030 commitments by COP27 next year. It won't be easy for any country to find wa...
After two weeks of intense negotiations, including a leaders’ summit attended by 120 presidents and prime ministers, the main outcome of the UN climate conferen...
Perhaps the most shocking revelation to emerge from the publication of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and GCHQ documents disclosed by the American whistl...
Ed Miliband’s speech to the 2012 Labour Party Conference was doubly significant. His bravura performance – speaking for more than an hour without notes – had a ...
One of the central facts of recent British politics has been the decline of the political party. Fewer people are voting for them; memberships have collapsed; a...
The depth of the spending cuts now being implemented by Whitehall departments and local authorities across the UK is unprecedented in postwar Britain. With heal...
The most telling comment on last week’s Budget came from the Government’s very own Office for Budget Responsibility. It acknowledged that the Chancellor’s measu...
Michael Gove’s retreat on his plan to reform GCSE examinations has provided an object lesson in the perils of political hubris. If the Secretary of State hadn’t...
The extraordinary glimpse into the inner workings of No 10 given in a rare interview by David Cameron’s Deputy Chief of Staff, Oliver Dowden – in which he admit...
Barack Obama's remarkable victory proves one thing at least: just how distorting is the first past the post electoral system. Obama's convincing triumph in the ...
David Cameron’s announcement that the Government would legislate to force energy companies to put customers on their lowest tariffs sounded good for a couple of...
The party conference season has ended with no-one any the wiser as to how the British economy will get out of its current dire condition. At the beginning of th...
