Deborah Orr, the award-winning journalist and author prized by friends and colleagues for her fierce honesty, inspiring work and barefoot dancing, has died of cancer at the age of 57. Her death was confirmed by her family, who asked for privacy.
Almost three-quarters of companies who have been given major government contracts have operations based in tax havens, according to a new report. Value Added, published on Sunday by the thinktank Demos, reveals that 25 of the government's 34…
The Democratic nominee in 2020 will be Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders. Everyone else is irrelevant. Don't get me wrong. The entire field is impressive. Every candidate in last week's debate would make a far better president than the…
Boris Johnson concludes his Churchill biography with splutters against historians who insist the “story of humanity is not the story of great men and shining deeds”. The story of Winston Churchill, he cries, “is a pretty…
The world is sleepwalking towards a fresh economic and financial crisis that will have devastating consequences for the democratic market system, according to the former Bank of England governor Mervyn King. Lord King, who was in charge at…
Home affairs departmental officials were left scrambling on how to answer a question about a “strategic review” outlined in the government's own budget papers, with senior staff admitting to being unaware one had been ordered, or what…
Prominent liberal Catholics have warned the US attorney general's devout Catholic faith poses a threat to the separation of church and state, after William Barr delivered a fiery speech on religious freedom in which he warned that “militant…
Despite another defeat in Saturday's parliamentary sitting, Boris Johnson may yet have the last laugh. While all eyes are on the Brexit-related legislation, and there is much to get through parliament, there is still the Queen's speech, which last…
