But the organisers of the protest began their occupation of the university’s main quadrangle on 17 April for a reason. That ...

I meet the Pet Shop Boys in a small room at their record company office in Kensington. The room is set up for a TV interview, ...

Today, the party’s positions have been diametrically reversed. The Tories have lost Hartlepool council to Labour (which won ...

Labour’s victories in Yorkshire and the East Midlands are far more telling than Ben Houchen and Andy Street’s survival.

Houchen, who was ennobled by Boris Johnson and has been closely associated with his levelling up agenda, is a prominent voice within the party. Despite controversies surrounding a development site in ...

Support 110 years of independent journalism. Follow Ben Walker’s unique ward-by-ward map on State of the Nation. By New Statesman The local election results are sending an unambiguous message: Labour ...

This Eighties-set film, in which Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian play star-crossed bodybuilders, is at its most original ...

Support 110 years of independent journalism. Even the Prime Minister’s biggest opponents recognise that a change of leader ...

For Starmer, higher wages are the economic expression of the “dignity of work”. In private, he speaks of people wanting more ...

The first comprehensive exhibition of the group’s works in Britain since 1960 shows how Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter, ...

George Robertson was at Nato’s Brussels headquarters when the second plane hit. By 9.30pm on 11 September 2001 he would ...

Why are so many young people feeling so isolated? Is it because of smartphones, as the American social psychologist Jonathan ...