In defence of democracy

LIKE A LOT OF DEMOCRATS THESE days, Chris Murphy has been doing some soul searching. For years, the Connecticut Senator, who took office shortly after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in New

Diane Abbott looks good in leopard print. Her jacket is patterned, and when I peer under the table, I am greeted by a pair of matching, leopard print trainers. We meet at the Cambridge Union, where sh

President Donald Trump emerges through a pair of handsome wooden doors on the third floor of the White House. On his way down the wide, carpeted staircase, he passes portraits of his predecessors. Nix

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He is now 83. Asthma winds him a little as he makes his way to sit down and recover his breath. But once Neil Kinnock starts talking, his voice resonates as if he were still Labour leader, addressing

At the bottom of Cardiff ’s Queen Street, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan stands rendered in bronze, his far-seeing gaze unbroken by shoppers and seagulls. The statue is a tribute to the Labour politician who man