The Birdcage pub in Stoke Newington, north London, seems an unlikely birthplace for a rebellion. On a midweek afternoon, the bar is almost empty. Spring sunshine streams through the windows; Spandau Ballet provide a gentle soundtrack; black-hatted…
We may have suspected it already, but now the science backs it up: unmarried and childless women are the happiest sub-group in the population. And they are more likely to live longer than their married and child-rearing peers, according to a…
The government is facing the prospect of being sued by campaigners for EU citizens in the UK and British nationals abroad who were denied a vote in the European parliament elections. John Halford, a public law specialist at Bindmans, said this…
The European Union's anti-fraud watchdog is considering whether Nigel Farage should be investigated for any illegal activity over lavish payment from Arron Banks, the Guardian has learned. The agency, which goes by its French acronym, Olaf…
Owen Jones asks people attending a Brexit party rally in London's Olympia why they are turning up, what they think of Nigel Farage and what their rise tells us about modern politics…
‘The Dog returns to his Vomit,” wrote Rudyard Kipling in 1919 as he denounced the delusions of liberals and socialists. “And the Sow returns to her Mire, and the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the…
You see him first as he was soon after his father's death: a seven-year-old boy staring, stunned, into the camera. He sits on a cloth-covered bench, next to a shield and a strip of animal hide. Around his shoulders, a long shamma drapes and gathers…
Change UK could form a pact with the Liberal Democrats to not stand candidates in the same constituencies at the next general election, the party's spokesman has said. The former Labour MP Chuka Umunna said he thought a pact between the two parties…
