Brexit is a 'heartbreaking wake-up call' – and other meaningless political clichés used this week
David Dimbleby announced portentously 12 hours after the ballot that 'a new day has dawned'. Well of course it bloody well had
David Dimbleby announced portentously 12 hours after the ballot that 'a new day has dawned'. Well of course it bloody well had
Isis forces lapping at Turkey's southern frontier now take their fight to the heart of Turkey itself
Social media is invaluable, but it is better to work with the mainstream media than to blame them when things go wrong
The 29 countries that make up the AEC have devised the Montreux Manifesto that will help put an end to the international ivory trade
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David Cameron was always harmed by his privileged start in life, dragging it behind like a ball and chain. Crabb is the Conservative leadership candidate who could fight Labour on its own territory - he grew up on a council estate and he used to work in Tesco
Seeing a hashtag for heterosexual pride was the tonic I needed after a spell in a feminist group, where the opinions of straight women were routinely ridiculed
Osborne keeps being wheeled out to repeat that they "fixed the roof while the sun was shining" - but the truth is that austerity politics crippled our country and caused the referendum result
We spoke to left and right wing parties, both nativist and internationalist. One thing they all have in common is this: they want change in Europe
Would such a breakaway Labour party break the mould this time? It might. The stranglehold of the two main parties is broken; look at the impact of Ukip and the SNP. The referendum showed how traditional party loyalties have melted
The notion that a return to Blairism would rescue Labour is completely out of touch. If the left does not offer a convincing economic alternative to austerity then the far right will capitalise
I'm pro-Brexit, and I naturally assumed that the insular, xenophobic Eurosceptic you always hear about was a strawman created by smug Europhiles. Boy, was I wrong!
Vodafone is considering moving its HQ outside of the UK as 55 per cent of its earnings are from the EU, while the UK ponies up just 11 per cent
Cameron, like Blair and Thatcher before him, could 'wipe the floor with these people' – and yet his services have already been dispensed with
Directors are rapidly accelerating a fascinating movement in theatre, says David Lister
Theresa May's career history is being rewritten. As a leadership contender she's being cast as moderate, but as her record shows, she's anything but
A thick curtain of sparking rain hides the stage, like a red velvet drape around a magician's vanishing act. Between scenes, Es Devlin's gorgeous design drenches the stage in drizzle that's been made extravagantly beautiful. But it's a beauty that's at odds with the subdued poetry of Brian Friel's 1979 play – a gesture that's typical of the faintly sterile reverence of director Lyndsey Turner's production.
To survive, the EU needs trans-European political parties. For the lack of such European advocates, many of us are losing our political voice
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The timing of the release keeps the issue alive at a crucial point in Hillary Clinton's campaign, says Rupert Cornwell