Sophie Gesture
There is a particular kind of political discomfort that arrives not with a scandal or a resignation,...
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There is a version of British political life in which party leaders earn their keep from speeches,...
There are ways to close a door and ways to weld it shut. Kemi Badenoch, on the...
A criminal conviction is rarely just about the individuals in the dock. Sometimes it marks a moment...
A government minister has stood at the despatch box of public discourse and levelled one of the...
When a government issues a verdict, you expect it to say something. What emerged on 20 August...
A headline published by The Independent on 19 August 2026 asks a question that cuts right to...
The word ‘myths’ does a lot of work in politics. It is not the language of polite...
Internal party suspensions rarely arrive without a backstory. When a political movement built on the promise of...
There is a particular kind of political genius that has nothing to do with policy detail, parliamentary...