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Fred Harter
Labour’s plan for a radical overhaul of policing in England and Wales
Tue 27 Jan 2026
Kim Willsher
France’s far-right earthquake
Tue 27 Jan 2026
Katie McQue
Video and witness evidence contradict the White House’s account of the latest Minneapolis shooting
Mon 26 Jan 2026
Catherine Neilan
Labour blocks Burnham from standing in byelection
Sun 25 Jan 2026
Catherine Neilan
Starmer walks diplomatic tightrope in response to Trump Greenland threats
Mon 19 Jan 2026
Fred Harter
Robert Jenrick’s defection is a coup for Reform – but there are risks too
Mon 19 Jan 2026
Kim Willsher
Jordan Bardella, France‘s far right messiah, is putting Le Pen in the shade
Sun 18 Jan 2026
John Bew
Inside the White House situation room
Thu 15 Jan 2026
Giles Whittell
Starmer and Europe need each other more than ever
Mon 12 Jan 2026
Ruth Michaelson
Street protests against Iranian regime reach holy city of Mashhad
Mon 12 Jan 2026
Philip Collins
Pensioners have been cushioned for too long. It’s time for Labour to get off the sofa on welfare
Sun 11 Jan 2026
Xavier Greenwood
White supremacist dating site profiles linked to Tory and Reform councillors
Sun 11 Jan 2026
Why are Brits losing their citizenship?
9 mins • S1, E1273
Kenan Malik
Stripping citizenship with such ease tears at the moral fabric of society
Sun 4 Jan 2026
Rachel Sylvester
Deepfakes are undermining faith in politics
Fri 2 Jan 2026
Steve Bloomfield
Will the world end in 2026? Probably not
Fri 2 Jan 2026
Robert Ford
Democracy’s ‘dark matter’ will decide the future of politics
Wed 31 Dec 2025
Sarah Crompton
Deborah Bull, ex-dancer aiming for the House of Lords
Wed 31 Dec 2025
Sir David Davis
Lord Tebbit, remembered by Sir David Davis
Tue 30 Dec 2025
2026 Predictions
32 mins • S1, E300
Isabel Coles
Zelensky stays hopeful on plan for peace ahead of Trump talks
Sun 28 Dec 2025
Kenan Malik
We’re ‘bowling alone’ politically when we should be rallying for change
Sun 28 Dec 2025
The Observer view
Britain cannot afford Reform
Sun 28 Dec 2025
Philip Collins
Starmer is a PM without a cause – he needs an epiphany
Sat 27 Dec 2025
Zack Polanski
Calais exposes our moral failure on migration. We can and must do better
Fri 26 Dec 2025
Ceri Thomas
A ‘straightforward’ life-or-death decision on hunger strikers
Wed 24 Dec 2025
Andrew Rawnsley
ʼTis the season to be jolly – but not for this Nobby-no-mates government
Sun 21 Dec 2025
Stephen Armstrong
Lisa Nandy: We’re at a crossroads about the sort of country we want to live in
Sat 20 Dec 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Hillsborough law could leave families waiting even longer in search for justice
Sat 20 Dec 2025
The Employment Rights Bill changes sick pay
6 mins • S1, E1258
Stephen Armstrong
Lisa Nandy signals end of the road for BBC board political appointees
Wed 17 Dec 2025
Catherine Neilan
‘I never encountered that kind of cruel, personal antisemitism before or since’
Sun 14 Dec 2025
Graham Noble
On Dulwich school trips, Nigel Farage and the other smokers took the ‘Belsen Bus’
Sat 13 Dec 2025
John Simpson
‘Death risk’ fear for Palestine Action hunger strike activists
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Andrew Rawnsley
Will the leftish parties unite to stop Nigel Farage from becoming PM?
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Keir Starmer: ‘The Greens are anti-Nato and think it’s all right to sell drugs. That’s nuts’
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Rory Smith
All eyes will be on Infantino and Trump at the World Cup draw
Fri 5 Dec 2025
Fred Harter
Scrapping some British juries is a major change. It may not work
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Xavier Greenwood
The chair of the UK’s fiscal watchdog has resigned. Rachel Reeves could be next
Tue 2 Dec 2025
