Mhairi Black is the SNP MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South
July 2024
Loud and queer: Gareth Thomas, Rosie Jones and more on the culture that helped them find their true selves
Edinburgh festival 2024: find the funny with these 20 comedy shows
June 2024
‘It was an awakening’: Diane Abbott, Nicola Sturgeon, Rory Stewart and more on the books that shaped their politics
From Animal Farm to The Female Eunuch ... Caroline Lucas, Alan Johnson and others reveal the books that get their vote
Brief letters
Vladimir Putin and Russia’s screwed generation
Brief letters: Generation P | Photobombing in the Musée d’Orsay | Clamping down on HMRC | Fit and leftwing | 650 Mhairi Blacks
Goodbye to all that
‘What am I going to do with my life?’ Mhairi Black on quitting the ‘depressing’ Commons at 29 – with no regrets
When she was sworn in, aged 20, she was the youngest MP to be appointed since 1832. Now the SNP’s deputy leader at Westminster, she looks back on 10 years of hard work and ‘hellish’ travel
April 2024
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Sunak claims defence spending plan won’t affect government’s ability to cut taxes – as it happened
Prime minister gives joint press conference with Olaf Scholz and denies misleading people over spending plans
March 2024
‘This place is utterly dysfunctional’: MPs on why they’re leaving parliament
Almost 100 MPs will stand down at the next election – and for many it won’t come a moment too soon. Here, Harriet Harman, Charles Walker, Caroline Lucas and others talk about what life inside Westminster is really like
July 2023
Mhairi Black to step down at next general election, blaming ‘toxic’ Commons
SNP MP calls Westminster ‘one of the most unhealthy workplaces that you could ever be in’
March 2023
The politics sketch
Tories keep Psycho Dom at arm’s length as Angela Rayner goes for jugular
John Crace
Deputy PM’s throbbing vein was only sign of life as Rayner taunted him with bullying jibes in what is likely to be his last PMQs
February 2022
Notebook
The wisdom of youth: twentysomething MP gives an object lesson in leadership
Rowan Moore
In a debate on transgender rights, Mhairi Black showed how to avoid Twitter storms and address the real issues
February 2019
The secret to Jess Phillips’s great political speech? Wit and authenticity
Anne Perkins
The Labour MP’s speech on high and low earners woke up the Commons – and social media has given it a powerful afterlife, says the writer and broadcaster Anne Perkins
March 2018
Why are we still so scared of crusading women who speak the truth?
Kevin McKenna
Mary Barbour led an uprising against spiv landlords in 1915. Today, her like are crushed by trolls
Goodbye to all that‘What am I going to do with my life?’ Mhairi Black on quitting the ‘depressing’ Commons at 29 – with no regretsWhen she was sworn in, aged 20, she was the youngest MP to be appointed since 1832. Now the SNP’s deputy leader at Westminster, she looks back on 10 years of hard work and ‘hellish’ travel
