Robin Harris thinks facing a radical left-wing opponent means that the Tory modernisers’ days are over — Cameron has no need to play Blairite games
Frank Field argues that Labour has failed to listen to the concerns of its core voters: immigration, welfare, and national security
Maureen Lipman wonders why the man of the moment is so untroubled by anti-Semitism
The preachy new breed of carnivore
Today’s Guardian reports that an English district judge issued an arrest warrant on Sunday for Israel’s former foreign minister Tzipi Livni over war crimes allegedly committed in Gaza this year, only to withdraw it when it was discovered that she had cancelled a planned trip to London.
The report by Charles Haddon-Cave QC into the single biggest loss of life of Service personnel in one battlefield incident since the Falklands War is as devastating as it is possible for a report to be.
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal
