Guy Verhofstadt’s idea that Britons continue to enjoy some rights in Europe was music to millions of ears. The government must respond to this goodwill in kind
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The reporting of the latest Wikileaks material shows the media have now grasped the surveillance threat. But tougher official oversight is what’s really needed
I might not ever have thought about pie barms again but for the flap on Twitter this week. And now I can’t get the wonderful old Wigan Kebab out of my head
Opinion has turned against austerity with a sense we’ve been taken for fools. Labour has internal problems, but May’s policies will make the country worse
In seeking to fulfill his campaign promise to ‘ban Muslims’, he is putting his political interests ahead of concern for the safety of his fellow Americans
A decade haunted by mass poverty, violent extremism and world war gives us one crucial advantage: the chance to learn the era’s lessons and avoid its mistakes
As the media get in a lather about the byelection contest between Labour and Ukip, John Harris visits Stoke-on-Trent, the supposed ‘Brexit capital of Britain’
Brexit is about to get real. Yet we are nowhere near ready for it