The polls are closed, and the exit polls are in, and apparently Labour has had a terrible day. The story taking shape is that Brexit, over everything else,...

Philip Roddis Following my Jesus or Barabbas post yesterday and – replicated on OffGuardian – Dirty War on the NHS post the day before, I’ve seen fit to respond...

W Stephen Gilbert In what they keep calling “the most unpredictable election of recent times”, the pundits report a continuing Tory lead in the opinion polls, indicating that Boris...

Kit Knightly The rapidly approaching General Election means accusations of antisemitism are back on the menu, and the mainstream media are eagerly ladling out healthy portions to any and...

Philip Roddis Today BBC World at One featured responses to the Chief Rabbi’s extraordinary attack. Zero evidence offered. Silence on the relative extent of antisemitic views within the two...

W Stephen Gilbert People generally vote out of self-interest. Of course they do. The snag is that relatively few have any sense of where their self-interest lies. Throughout the...

Frank Lee Such was the response to any of those who questioned what was happening to the animal revolution which had expropriated the farmer (Jones) and set up the...

Why are Labour MPs upset at the idea of being in power? Why didn't notionally "liberal" or "progressive" columnists cheer on the idea of removing Britains "hard right" government?...

Peter Gregson On Sunday 22nd Sept, I, a Labour Party member since 1986, had my banner taken down from outside Conference. Why? The police agreed it was not anti-Semitic....

This year’s Labour Conference will determine the result of the upcoming general election and, ultimately, the fate of Jeremy Corbyn as party leader. As a rule, I don’t go...

David Lindsay You do not have to like Jack Letts to be extremely concerned when politicians start revoking people’s citizenship. If you would merely qualify for another nationality, whether...

In the long history of party politics, co-ordinated and systematic attacks on one political party are always initiated and perpetuated by a rival party or parties. Not least...

We the undersigned, all Jews, are writing in support of Chris Williamson and to register our dismay at the recent letter organised by Tom Watson, and signed by parliamentary...

David Lindsay The next General Election will certainly result in another hung Parliament. That is now inevitable when a General Election is held across the three polities of England...

Philip Roddis It pains and embarrasses me that I used to admire Dame Margaret Hodge. Her steely grillings of millionaires, in her capacity as chair of the select committee...

And so ends the Labour career of Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's PR man, one of the key architects of the "dodgy dossier", a man complicit in every death that...

There's an argument doing the rounds that, although Brexit Party got the most seats and the most votes, actually the European Elections shows Remain is more popular. It is...

The European elections are here, and Theresa May’s political future hangs in the balance. As it seems to have done for years. Her party, fresh off being wiped out...

W Stephen Gilbert The salient point about Cassandra the mythological princess, and Dr Stockmann in Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, and Chief Brody in Peter Benchley’s Jaws is...

The local elections have been a complete disaster for the Tories. They have lost over 1100 seats (as of 7pm today). They have lost nearly forty councils. They have...