The media focus on whether individual figures have experienced racism is a way of obscuring the uncomfortable truth about how inequality works

Careful phrasing can lead people to support particular policies, invest in particular companies or even back foreign wars. What is the PM trying to achieve with his latest slogan? 

Social mobility touches on deeply personal issues of self-understanding, authenticity and identity that policy alone can't address. I would know—I've lived it

The arrangement is designed to keep the Irish land border open—but details of how it will work remain up in the air

Labour has five years to reflect on why it lost but it won’t stand a chance in 2024 unless it picks a credible leader now

Politicians, especially progressives, must recognise a nation’s right to choose

Speak up for keeping our institutional and cultural links with Europe alive

The beauty brand's London pop-up shop sells not just its wildly popular products but a sense of belonging—while maintaining an air of exclusivity


UK language skills have succumbed to a complex pattern of long-term decline. Only a national strategy can fix things

But they will need sharp political antennae