Dennis Potter’s Nigel Barton Plays, 50 years old this month, are the original satires on the vileness of modern politics.
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The Labour leader has made a virtue of voting against his party line for many years. Now his party appears to be striking back.
Politicians hate secrecy when in opposition but grow to love it when in power.
No-one imagined that it would take Muhammadu Buhari more than 100 days to form a cabinet. But, then again, Nigeria is no ordinary country and it has its own inherent logic.
The former British PM did not go far enough with his apology.
Elected in the party’s biggest ever wipeout, Labour’s 1983 intake of MPs could be about to notch up its third party leader.
It’s become fashionable to blame those born in the post-war baby boom for all today’s economic woes. But this is unfair – and wrong.
We thought the phone hacking scandal would chasten News Corp. We were wrong.
If the commercial media has its way the BBC will end up cash-strapped and shackled by regulation.
Whatever position you take on the Iraq Inquiry – whether you see it as an establishment stitch-up, or whether you think it might actually tell the truth about Britain’s decision to go to war in Iraq in…
Although Hamas also wants a return to normalcy in the Gaza Strip, it is potentially a double-edged sword for the movement.
The Iraq inquiry, launched in 2009, still hasn’t published its report.
Former PM warns of annihilation without offering a way out.
Two years ago, on August 14, more than 800 protesters against a coup were massacred in Cairo. A court recently upheld the death sentence for Egypt’s ousted elected leader.
The emergence of ageing left-winger Jeremy Corbyn as the unlikely frontrunner in the Labour Party leadership contest signals that many British voters reject what politics has become.
If you ignore the spoiling campaign being run by the press, the left-winger’s campaign platform begins to appear eminently sensible.
Regardless of what Corbyn would mean for England, at least he’d win back Scotland for Labour, right? Not according to this new analysis.
All four leadership hopefuls have a political position — but only one is actually saying what it is.
Upstarts on the left and right are proving that people of all political leanings want change.
It can’t compete with the US, but the UK became part of mega-memorial culture after the London bombings.
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