Affected women born in the 1950s should receive compensation of between £1,000 and £2,950, a report says.

Do you remember the Windsor Framework? It was an agreement between the UK and the EU that Rishi Sunak sealed in March that was supposedly going to end ‘any sense’ of a border in the Irish Sea. ...

The BBC went through immense soul-searching 12 years ago when it invited Nick Griffin, then leader of the British National Party and an MEP, to appear on Question Time. I think its decision was...

Exclusive: Bridget Phillipson says early-years education key to improving life chances

London’s housing shortage is the root cause of almost every political and economic challenge the city, and therefore the country faces.

I doubt the authors of the 1994 Value Added Tax Act would have imagined that this legislation could end up at the centre of a political storm two decades later, yet here we are.  Both the 2017 and...

The pension age is 66 is set to rise to 68, but a decision on the exact timetable has been deferred until after the election.

Campaigners from Just Stop Oil pressure group reimagine The Hay Wain by John Constable

The golden age of the green baize. From smoky halls to superstardom – the unlikely figures who turned 1980s snooker into a money-spinning sporting soap opera.

I’ve always thought of the culture war as the right’s Vietnam. With the Tories in power, conservatives were supposed to have decidedly superior firepower; yet since the ‘great awokening’ began in...

Allegra Stratton, Boris Johnson’s climate spokesperson, is encouraging us to go ‘One Step Greener’.  The new campaign highlights micro-changes we can all make to cut our environmental impact. She...

The men have had a lot to say about Martin Amis. His obituaries have tended to fall into two categories: tender reminiscences from other male novelists who knew and admired him, and tributes from...

Janet Street-Porter thinks Rishi Sunak 'hates pensioners'? The entire Tory agenda is built around appeasing this entitled generation

In his seminal book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942), the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter explained one of the key characteristics of capitalist economies in the following terms: ‘It...

It’s finally official: HS2 is ‘unachievable’, according to the UK’s Infrastructure and Projects Authority. That doesn’t mean the project isn’t still happening, or that it won’t cost us billions, it...

Over the last few years the phrase ‘envy of the world’ has gone from an annoying cliche about the NHS to an epithet most often employed ironically by its detractors. Today’s report from the thinktank...

How do you solve a problem like the Red Wall? It’s a question that preoccupies both major political parties in equal measure. The Tories wonder how to keep it and Labour how to get it back. To us...