If I were in government I’d propose a very different response to the challenges we face – starting with protecting people from the cost of living, says former Labour home secretary David Blunkett
A countdown of the greatest literature ever published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?
Creator of Politidex hopes free online app will help humanise politics and act as a way of ‘flipping the narrative’
American zeal for ‘the Hamptons of England’ has rubbed off on sales with luxury British fashion house back to a full-year profit
Every fancied creating your own enormous effigy? One Cornish art collective has reinvigorated the practice – and now they want to draw on the public’s skills, too
Merged insistutions, whose name has not yet been formally decided, will be second largest mainstream university in UK
Burnham’s backers understood to be lobbying Labour’s NEC who warn against Wes Streeting ‘coronation’
Environmentalists hail decline but warn weakened laws could reverse gains
An erudite account of the foundation of the state and its subsequent moral and political decline
Steven Soderbergh and Ed Solomons provide a vision of haughty Englishness up there with Gosford Park and Phantom Thread