As the long summer of Labour’s leadership campaign begins, all candidates must answer one question: how do you beat a Miliband? David started well, especially given his donation of at least a dozen...

Today, George Osborne set out the most austere budget the country has seen in 30 years. Here’s hoping it was a sham—that the government is misleading the country and the world about the scale of...

What gives Harriet Harman the right to make her increasingly bizarre pronouncements about the Labour leadership contest? First, she seems deeply unhappy about the lack of social diversity among...

Russia’s resolve to support sanctions against Iran will be sorely tested this week as the Islamic republic ratchets up the pressure over a nuclear fuel swap deal. The two countries clashed last...

In a move that will do little for US-Brazilian relations but much for our understanding of the workings of the Obama administration, President Lula has released the full text of a letter from Obama...

Isreali soldiers on board the Gaza flotilla As news came in of the mounting death toll from the Israeli storming of a humanitarian flotilla heading for Gaza, the actor and comedian David Schneider...

Perhaps Lembit Opik turning from politics to comedy was not such a surprise. After all, this is the man who played cheeky boy to a Cheeky Girl and had a penchant for backing doomed leadership...

Much has been made of David and Ed Miliband’s fraternal fight for the leadership of the Labour party already, perhaps too much. As Sophie Elmhirst of the New Statesman wrote despairingly on her...

Today's issue of the Guardian is typically biased in its coverage of the Gaza flotilla story. There is little balance. The one op-ed piece is an attack on Israel. All five letters on the letters page...

For all his talk, is Barack Obama merely perpetuating George W Bush's foreign policy? Has a softened approach to Iran yielded any benefits whatsoever for America? Was scrapping the European missile...