Trust in politics has hit rock bottom – we hear it on the doorstep all the time. Too many people feel unheard in decisions ...

A patchwork democracy Britain is one of the world’s oldest democracies, home of the Magna Carta, a centuries-old Parliament and an independent judiciary. That system is underpinned by an “unwr ...

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer agent who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to ...

When Britain votes on whether to withdraw from ... about a European future of diminishing social dynamism and political democracy. Britain will consciously choose between alternative national ...

the debate over the extent to which Britain is a liberal democracy has reignited, with libertarian political commentators such as Peter Hitchens criticizing the supposedly 'authoritarian' nature ...

And across the Atlantic, too. Starmer must stand up on behalf of Britain in the face of Trump’s assault on truth, democracy and liberty, and against his attempts to dismantle the post-Second ...

The democracy activist has now spent four years in solitary confinement in Hong Kong for daring to criticise the Communist ...

albeit without extrapolating those critiques to any broad condemnation of Britain’s democracy. What Sumption will have no truck with is any thought of allowing ends to justify means. He argues f ...

Britain’s pitch notably avoids mention of thorny issues like tariffs and regulation for now. But tariffs could come to a head ...

Universal suffrage, representative government and liberal democracy as we know them today are relatively recent developments in the grand sweep of human civilization. Britain only granted universal ...

Paradoxically, Great Britain never introduced democracy to Hong Kong; the governor was appointed by London and there were no elections. But the British did set up a highly responsive, efficient ...