Media

Politics is very different on each side of the Atlantic - but the populist right is determined to bring US-style polarisation to Britain

The bad news is that it’s beginning to work

The right wing press is predicting a Tory wipe-out – anything less, and they’ll say Starmer has failed

A Times columnist thinks Britain's departure from the EU has been a success. His readers disagree

Shutting out the press is a big mistake – especially if you’re heading for a big majority

Your weekly compendium of idiotic goings on from the bowels of Britain’s body politic

He’s everywhere – and the Brexit press reckons he’s heading for Downing Street

The mainstream media made some spectacular errors of judgment in the run-up to the EU referendum and were played for fools by the Leave campaign

The GB News co-owner’s hopes of acquiring the newspaper appear a lot more doubtful

Producers have frequently relied on a small number of right wing guests to provoke entertaining debates

As the polls continue to point to a heavy Conservative defeat, the Daily Mail’s analysis of Labour is getting hysterical

The Lib Dem leader has been running a crack campaign – with the Euros approaching, might he recreate a football fan’s famous stunt?

The papers aren’t bystanders any more – they’re political participants

Isaac Levido, who previously toiled as the strategist to Boris Johnson, is the real author of Rishi Sunak’s misfortune

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Richard Tice, Asa Bennett, the Daily Telegraph and more

After 14 years of the Tories, the spending gap per student between the state and private schooling system has more than doubled

They love him — but what happens if he destroys the Tory party?

Farage wouldn’t have been happy surrendering his seat on the Question Time leaders’ special to Richard Tice

Instead of the Tory demise, they’re talking Geri Halliwell and Lord Lucan

The Diane Abbott controversy, attacking Angela Rayner and… a podcast about Lord Lucan?

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Richard Holden, Emily Sheffield, Jacob Young and more

Is someone in the prime minister’s team deliberately trying to derail his campaign from within?

What the right wing papers think about Raynergate, the triple lock plus and private schools

Mandrake has been informed she has already attracted serious financial backing

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Kemi Badenoch, Chris Heaton-Harris, Rishi Sunak and more

It would take a lot more than a change in government to turn around the lives of some of the pupils at The Heath – but it would be a start

You might not know it, but you ruined the country. Obviously nothing to do with the Conservative government

Paola Totaro’s ‘immigrant’s love letter to Britain’ reminded our readers of all the good things about the country, and moved some to tears

There’s no wonder only Lord Ashcroft’s Biteback publishing outfit was prepared to pick up the rights to Ten Years to Save the West

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Dehenna Davison, Nadhim Zahawi, Liz Truss and more

The country's political and social hostilities have reached a dangerous moment

The question of whether Israel's Eden Golan should have been allowed to perform plagued this year's competition