Hackney North MP Diane Abbott spoke up in favour of the effectiveness of UK aid on Monday. She told the House of Commons: “I saw evidence of the drought that is sweeping across eastern and southern Africa. Anyone who says ...

The smallest things can have the biggest influence on a political career. If then Labour Leader Michael Foot had put a different coat on that day he went to the Cenotaph, perhaps he would have become Prime Minister. His crime, ...

The media is still finding it hard to understand how Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn operates. They have been goading him all over the winter break to undertake a Cabinet reshuffle – by which they mean man up, shout at some ...

Silence is complicity: so today it is time for you to take a few minutes to help save lives and make the world a safer place. In the coming week, the Government seems certain to ask the House of Commons ...

David Cameron summed up his approach to “extremism” in one paragraph of the lengthy statement he made this week: “For all our successes as multi-racial, multi-faith democracy, we have to confront a tragic truth that there are people born and ...

“The Beard That’s Feared” wows the crowd at Orphans in Need charity event Emdad Rahman An audience with Moeen Ali at The Institute of Directors, Pall Mall, London attracted a large number of big hearted guests who together contributed to ...

The Hang-Up Gallery concentrates on contemporary art and street art, showing work from both established and new artists. There is always a range of art to view (and buy) and special exhibitions. This week’s hot tips from the gallery include ...

As leaders from NATO’s member countries headed for Cardiff, where they were to hold a NATO summit meeting, thousands of protestors prepared to show their opposition to the military operations of the alliance. Hundreds marched through Newport on the Saturday ...

This is not the best of The Times: this is the worst of The Times. It is relentless. Top story on the website of The Times in the early hours of 20th August was the barbaric and brutal murder of ...

What utter, ridiculous, self-indulgent twaddle. Baroness Warsi has woken up, smelled the coffee and taken the photo opportunity. What a complete Tory. Nestled under the newspaper headlines announcing that Baroness Warsi was resigning was another story revealing that over its ...