Confusion over Ed Miliband's new fiscal position was exploited by David Cameron at prime minister's questions today. The Labour leader last week relaunched his leadership with a shift on the...

Returning last night by plane from a trip with a self-imposed news blackout, I was pleased to learn through a small-ish piece in the inside pages of the International Herald Tribune that Gary Dobson...

Why did the Stephen Lawrence story catch the public imagination so dramatically? There are countless miscarriages of justice every year, some of them just as serious, which most people have never...

Christopher Hitchens stood at the intersection of late imperial Britain and hedonistic, baby-boomer Britain Christopher Hitchens was a big and impressive figure. And the sheer scale of the...

There was a moment in the 2005 Conservative party leadership contest when it looked like Liam Fox might pose a serious threat to David Cameron's bid. In order to see off his rival, and thrill the...

. . . Of the three party conferences, the Conservatives’ provided the most fodder for that inevitable litmus test of a political story: splits. This year, they were primarily on the nature and...

There was a telling moment in the press section of the audience for Nick Clegg’s question and answer session with delegates at the Lib Dem conference in Birmingham on Monday afternoon. Clegg had...

Who was the one MP to attack the record of the police unequivocally during last week's debates? "From the bungled arrest of the ricin plotters to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, the...

I've lost count of the number of column inches outlining a new low in relations between David Cameron and his long-time rival Boris Johnson. Every few months, Johnson says or writes something at odds...

I tried to buy the Daily Mail this morning, because a friend had written something about the classes he runs in Peckham to encourage black kids to aim higher at school. I could not find one in the...