We hired Cameron to make decisions on our behalf but by passing the buck back to us he has created a dangerous political vacuum

Can MPs really compel recalcitrant witnesses to appear before them and accept a grilling?

This badly-drafted and timed bill won’t address sky-high rents or house prices – expect peers to win concessions

The problem is Chinese imports, and the actions of British politicians dating back to Ed Miliband’s Climate Change Act

List of MPs loyal to and hostile to Jeremy Corbyn is not only funny, it is also inevitably wrong, because politicians need critical friends as well as courtiers, and because their opinions evolve

David Cameron lost his bid to extend Sunday trading after SNP and Tory rebels teamed up against him. I, for one, was delighted

If Johnson thinks that siding with the leave campaign will force the EU to give him the deal he wants, he’s in cloud cuckoo land

Comparison between Israel and apartheid South Africa is distasteful, but Cameron shouldn’t follow in Thatcher’s footsteps

Historically minded voters have been quick to spot the similarities between the party’s current leader and much-loved pacifist George Lansbury

Are the Thatcherite phenomenon of authoritarian populism and the ancient art of the political dynasty back in fashion with the Turkish election result?

With tax-dodging coffee chains and tip-pinching restaurants, I know why I’d prefer Unite’s Len McCluskey as a neighbour to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos

Greece’s very existence owes more to tyranny than philosophy – no wonder its people reject its creditors’ severity – but Germany has its own baggage too

Those who wanted us to sign up in 1999 won’t admit their error, with implications for our referendum – pushing bewildered voters towards extreme options

Just as US has 50 ‘laboratories of democracy’, Police Scotland’s investigation into historial abuse allegations is chance to see how different systems act

While Scotland’s last Lib Dem MP has shown poor judgment over the Sturgeon memo leak, his fate should not be decided by an SNP-inspired lynch mob