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...

What a month. In the newsagents you will find Prospect classified as a current affairs monthly. This month we are more current than usual—indeed, three of our main features (on the euro crisis,...

BBC1’s Question Time has hit a rock. The traditional format (one spokesperson from each of the three big parties, plus a couple of others) doesn’t work with coalition politics. Take last...

Hamas is causing unforeseen problems Too many Israelis don’t want a settlement with the Palestinians. Ten years ago, when prime minister Ehud Barak negotiated face to face with Yasser Arafat...

David Cameron has recently been much compared to Benjamin Disraeli, the Tory prime minister who warned that extension of the vote would be tantamount to letting the mob into power. Disraeli...

Last Friday Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, addressed the Finance and Economic Development ministries calling for a “complete revision of our current obligations and a cut in...

"Coalitions never work. Disagreement. Stalemate. Disaster." Smugly, Labour sympathisers think it will be over before we know it. Best to go it alone, some Tories said, and dare the Liberals to...