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Britain's traditional adherence to strong governments with solid, first-past-the-post majorities is actually at variance with the facts. Take away minority governments at Westminster, usually Liberal with Labour support (or...
Mark Tran profiles the six people conducting the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war Sir John Chilcot A former Whitehall mandarin, Chilcot is a Cambridge graduate who retired from the civil service at the end of 1997 after seven...
David Cameron has made it clear he is not taking an election victory for granted and slapped down a senior colleague for suggesting a Labour win would be better for Britain than the uncertainty of a hung parliament.
And a good thing too Lucky old Observer ... It struck gold on Sunday . But unlucky the rest of us. Opinion polling is a costly exercise for media organisations, one that often produces predictable results like "voters dislike...
OTTAWA — Canada's top Mountie says he expects the coming report on the deadly 1985 Air India bombing to be highly critical of the RCMP. But William Elliott says that's "fair and reasonable" given the problems plaguing the...
Back in the 90s John Major sought to restore his battered political stock by vetoing the appointment of the Belgian Jean-Luc Dehaene to head up the European commission. Little Englanders cheered, assuming that because Dehaene...
A faint smile flickered across the lips of the Son of Heaven as Barack Obama left the Great Hall of the People in Beijing with a flea in his ear. The creditor-in-chief to America had given his suppliant a humiliating lecture...
When Hillary Clinton called David Miliband ‘vibrant' and 'vital’, eyebrows were raised - but why? Men hire, date and marry younger women all the time, says Kathy Lette US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (right) and...
Margaret Thatcher was Britain's first female prime minister and served three consecutive terms in office. She is one of the dominant political figures of 20th century Britain, and Thatcherism continues to have a huge influence....
Gordon Brown and David Cameron have been forced to make grovelling apologies after they were accused of exploiting a Remembrance Day service attended by the Queen, turning it into a media 'turkey shoot' to win votes. Mr Brown...
