“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” Antonio Gramsci’s words, written in prison near Bari almost 100 years ago, ring out to us now. The politi

→ The government has unveiled its ‘once-in-a-generation’ plan to reform England’s water system, promising tougher oversight and an end to failing infrastructure. But with record sewage pollution, soar

Last year, for the first time, more than ...

It is nearly ten long years since the British people voted to leave the European Union. The latest opinion polls show that a majority now believe that Brexit has gone badly. Too much time has been was

Controversy of the week

→ Walk through parliament and barely a wall is clear of portraits and paintings harking back to hundreds of years of tradition. Sitting in Ed Davey’s office is a somewhat different experience. On the