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Never in postwar British history has there been such a weak, divided, and poorly run Conservative government. Prime Minister Theresa May inherited the disaster of her predecessor David Cameron's 2016 [...]

If Brexit actually happens, those most harmed will be the people who voted for it. How did Britain get into such a mess, and how might she yet muddle out [...]

China bullies Australia with 'bans and restrictions on its exports', and this justifies the Australian PM's breaking the global rule that the Southern Hemisphere should not be nuclearised, argues Helen [...]

Harry Lambert resurrects the myth that all would have been different had Labour imposed the EU's seven-year transition period in 2004 for people from new member states working in the [...]

In 'A Machiavel in Downing Street' (27 September), Harry Lambert claims that Dominic Cummings's work for the anti-EU outfit Business for Sterling 'helped dissuade Tony Blair from holding a referendum [...]

When I worked for the BBC World Service as a journalist in the 1970s, we were never allowed to write an item for a bulletin without at least three sources. [...]

As one of the politicians involved in settlement of the phone-hacking cases on 19 January, I believe it should mark the beginning of a serious inquiry into the power and [...]

Helen Thompson glides over the reasons why Tony Blair offered a referendum in 2004 on the EU constitutional treaty (These Times, 20 September). Blair resisted referendum fever when many ministers, [...]

Helen Thompson's article (These Times, 26 July) gets the record a bit wrong and draws, I would suggest, the wrong conclusion. By the time Margaret Thatcher sealed her fate with [...]

I enjoyed Marigold Johnson's reflections on her husband, Paul Johnson, the editor of the New Statesman when I first began reading it (Diary, 7 November). This is a small addition [...]

While the latest reshuffle was under way, a rumour went around that Downing Street would appoint a secretary of state--a full cabinet minister--for Europe. It is a pity it didn't [...]

Danny Dorling's fascinating account of how a Britain that achieved near-Nordic levels of income equality in the first 30 years after 1945 and then became one of the least equal [...]

Byline: Denis Macshane Not since the 1930s have international politics been in such flux. Rising states such as China, In-dia, Turkey, and Brazil, as well as a newly assertive Russia, [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane It may not be time to say adieu just yet, but French President Nicolas Sarkozy is finally starting to look like a loser after seeming unbeatable for [...]

Byline: Denis MacShane For the evangelists of globalization, Switzerland has long been the model country. Its -image as a diverse, harmonious nation with light regulations and political neutrality is a [...]

Byline: Denis Macshane; Macshane is a British Labour politician. Like his mentor Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, could soon be known as the comeback kid. Europe's [...]

As the cries of 'Long live the nation state' echo across the Continent, and British anti-Europeans hail the beginning of the end of the EU, or at least its transformation [...]

Denis MacShane finds a hot political issue that has been overlooked by the Third Way gurus All sorts of explanations have been put forward for Labour's local election losses. Peter [...]

Denis MacShane offers a solution for Britain's shortage of capital, and her gross inequalities Why are there so few capitalists in Britain? It is more than two decades since the [...]

In the 1970s, Britain's rate of divorce, teenage pregnancy and other indices of family stability were much the same as those of other European countries. From 1980 onwards they shot [...]

Returning to South Africa after a long absence was to feel that everything had changed but everything was still the same. The granite solidity of the Wits University building in [...]

Three decades ago, a French politician flew to Washington to take part in a left-wing conference. The editor of the New York Times turned down the suggestion that an interview [...]

Peter Wilby is wrong to urge a vote to leave Europe just because David Cameron wants an EU reconfigured to his neoliberal dreams (First Thoughts, 22 May). The task of [...]

In a fit of despair at its slumping popularity, the main centre-left party in government decided to replace its burly party leader, whose poll ratings hovered around 25 per cent. [...]

Retired Kremlinologists, a smattering of diplomats and foreign policy think-tankers settled down comfortably at the fashionable Politics and Prose bookshop in Washington last month to listen to Edward Lucas of [...]

Your excellent trade union supplement (10 September) argues that 'Germany did not need to abandon its famed social market model in order to make its current economic recovery'. Not quite [...]

Seventy years ago, in the middle of a late summer night, Spain's greatest 20th-century poet, Federico Garcia Lorca, was bundled into a hollow in a wooded ravine north of Granada [...]

My criminal record is pretty thin. Speeding and parking fines, student demonstrations and picket-line forays for the National Union of Journalists never seemed to persuade magistrates that I was worth [...]

A Death in Brazil Peter Robb Bloomsbury, 329pp, £16.99 Flying into Sao Paulo is like seeing Manhattan stretched out in all directions. The panoramic coastline, the waterfalls and the Amazon […]