FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 12 - Caught on Camera

Labour sees biggest first-year poll drop for governing party since 1990s

The last government to experience a double-digit fall in the 12 months after an election was John Major’s Conservatives.

Evening Standard · Jul 3, 2025

Voices: Has Kemi Badenoch finally shown the killer instinct to save her as Tory leader?

COMMENT: Her filleting of Starmer and Reeves in the Commons is arguably her biggest success since becoming opposition leader. It could silence complaints by her Conservative critics that she lacks the ruthless skills needed to become prime minister, writes Simon Walters.

The Independent UK · Jul 2, 2025

Steve Coogan says he now ‘admires’ Margaret Thatcher because of Keir Starmer’s politics

‘I never thought I’d say that,’ Alan Partridge star admitted

The Independent UK · Jul 2, 2025

‘Unless you see it, you can’t believe how bad it is’: the peer demanding a minister for porn

We’ve got into a mess with extreme content because nobody wants to talk about pornography, says Gabby Bertin

The Guardian - UK · Jun 28, 2025

Voices: Keir Starmer accidentally admits his first year has been a failure

COMMENT: The prime minister said his party’s biggest mistake is that ‘we haven’t always told our story as well as we should’ – an attempt to minimise a problem that is fundamental, argues John Rentoul

The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2025

‘They feel betrayed’: how Reform UK is targeting votes in Britain’s manufacturing heartlands

In the first in a series, the Guardian maps out the rise in support for Farage and how parties are targeting the UK’s deindustrialised areas

The Guardian - UK · Jun 21, 2025

The racial violence in Ballymena repeats a pattern that’s blighted Britain for years. We must wake up to that

History tells us attacks on migrants are a predictable result of political failings, distorted media coverage and far-right opportunism, says Lanre Bakare, an arts and culture correspondent for the Guardian

The Guardian - UK · Jun 19, 2025

Theatrical hitmaker Justin Martin on Prima Facie’s follow-up: ‘It wrestles with how to bring up boys’

The director of Jodie Comer’s tour de force is now staging Inter Alia, another legal drama by Suzie Miller. He talks about steering Stranger Things: The First Shadow, resisting the classics and his double act with Stephen Daldry

The Guardian - UK · Jun 17, 2025

Shifty review – Adam Curtis’s new show is an utter rarity: stylish, intelligent TV with something to say

The celebrated documentarian’s five-part series charts the decline of Britain’s democracy with a witty, kaleidoscopic selection of archive footage. It begins, of course, with Margaret Thatcher

The Guardian - UK · Jun 14, 2025

Thatcher, Farage and toe-sucking: Adam Curtis on how Britain came to the brink of civil war

Chaos, distrust and so many sex scandals … Ahead of his epic new series Shifty, the great documentarian charts the UK’s slide towards Whitehall’s worst nightmare

The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2025