Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | Politics

RSS

Latest

Welfare 1hr 38min ago

Beveridge's ideas on a woman's place

21 Apr 2014: Letters: We have yet to recognise the consequences of abandoning the male breadwinner/dependent housewife model in which care was largely hidden within the family
Benjamin Disraeli 1hr 38min ago

Disraeli was Jewish

21 Apr 2014: Letters: Who has decided Miliband is an atheist Jew, while Disraeli was not a Christian Jew?
Drugs policy 1hr 46min ago

US Justice Department to widen clemency criteria for drug offenders

21 Apr 2014: Eric Holder said he expects thousands of drug offenders serving time to be eligible for reduced sentences under new guidelines
Comment is free 2hr 6min ago

Garden cities: lie of the land

21 Apr 2014: Editorial: Garden cities were a powerful idea never quite taken to scale. Could their time be now?
Scottish independence 2hr 23min ago

Scottish independence: Gordon Brown warns of pensions 'timebomb'

21 Apr 2014: Ex-prime minister enters increasingly tight battle over independence as yes campaign gains momentum
Comment is free 2hr 28min ago

European elections: some things are bigger than Ukip

21 Apr 2014: Editorial: Europe is not going away so our European election campaigns should contain a debate about policy
Alastair Campbell 3hr 15min ago

Alastair Campbell questions sincerity of David Cameron's 'religious ramblings'

21 Apr 2014: Former spin doctor claims PM has been proclaiming his faith because he needed 'new talking point after Maria Miller fiasco'
Comment is free 3hr 53min ago

Sorry students, I lied to you. University is about desperation, not aspiration

21 Apr 2014: Laurie Penny: The graduate premium is going down year on year as tuition fees go up: but for today's students that's just the tip of the iceberg
George Osborne 4hr 8min ago

George Osborne's gamble: is it paying off?

21 Apr 2014:
Larry Elliott and Michael White: A year ago, the chancellor was still living down his 'omnishambles' budget and critics doubted his economic plan could ever work. But now he is seeing his own stock rise
Rail transport 4hr 15min ago

London rail workers to stage series of strikes in coming weeks

21 Apr 2014: RMT union members to take industrial action against London Underground, Transport for London and Heathrow Express
Housing 4hr 23min ago

Tory council rebels over government's affordable homes concession

21 Apr 2014: Ministers warned they are storing up future trouble by reacting to 'squeals' from the construction industry
Prostitution 4hr 29min ago

Outlaw buying sex, says former Tory minister Caroline Spelman

21 Apr 2014: Spelman calls for UK to follow 'Nordic model' on sex trade, but critics say a clampdown would not stop prostitution
Early years education 4hr 44min ago

Teachers may boycott tests for four-year-olds

21 Apr 2014: National Union of Teachers conference backs moves to oppose baseline assessment saying it will put pressure on pupils
Martin McGuinness 4hr 57min ago

Martin McGuinness criticised by republican dissidents for toast to Queen

21 Apr 2014: Former Real IRA prisoner denounces Irish deputy first minister's attendance at Windsor Castle banquet
UK Independence party (Ukip) 5hr 17min ago

Neil Hamilton and Ukip: it just wasn't meant to be

21 Apr 2014: Kira Cochrane: It seems that Neil and Christine Hamilton, and their chequered history, are too embarrassing – even for Nigel Farage's party

All today's politics stories

Politics blog

'I love parliament but I don't want to die in the chamber': farewell from Austin Mitchell MP

The 79-year-old has been Labour MP for Grimsby for 37 years, but he's reluctantly decided to make way for a younger model. In this farewell note, Mitchell explains why he is standing down - and it's not because of Ed Milliband
Politics Live - readers' edition: Thursday 17 April

Share breaking news, leave links to interesting articles online and chat about the week’s political events in our open thread
More from the politics blog

Comment

Garden cities: lie of the land

Editorial: Garden cities were a powerful idea never quite taken to scale. Could their time be now?
European elections: some things are bigger than Ukip

Editorial: Europe is not going away so our European election campaigns should contain a debate about policy
More from Comment is free

Cartoon

Martin Rowson on the death of Gabriel García Márquez – cartoon

Cartoon
Colombian author became standard-bearer for Latin American letters after success of One Hundred Years of Solitude
Ben Jennings on David Cameron, Nigel Farage and Christianity – cartoon

Cartoon
PM criticises some non-believers for failing to grasp the role that religion can have in 'helping people to have a moral code'
More Guardian cartoons

Mrs Cameron's Diary

Now Govey is hating on Dave, who's going to win the school quiz for us now?

We imagine how the prime minister's wife might have reacted to Michael Gove's attacks on the 'preposterous' number of Old Etonians in the cabinet
We must impress Balamory, so Wee Davey has us all going Scotch

How Samantha Cameron might have reacted to her husband's efforts to appeal to voters north of the Border
More from Mrs Cameron's Diary

Pledge tracker

The Guardian coalition pledge tracker

In its first weeks in government, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition made 433 pledges. Use our tool to see what they are and keep tabs on whether they are being met

Find your MP

Find your constituency

About this search | Browse the map

Last 24 hours

Politics Weekly podcast

Politics Weekly podcast: How to make the case for the EU

Hugo Dixon, Larry Elliott and Polly Toynbee join Tom Clark to discuss whether a popular case in favour of the EU can still be made in Britain. Plus the great Royal Mail rip-off and why privatisation of state assets is back on the menu

Highlights

Latest stats from Datablog

The crisis in local welfare assistance explained

A hardship fund designed to protect the poorest was devolved to councils last April. Since then, spending and the number of people being helped have gone down. What has happened?
Guardian/ICM polls: every one since 1984

Full results on voting intentions going back to the beginning of our polling - plus the trends in the big questions over time

On this site

Find the latest jobs in your sector:

Browse all jobs

More ways to stay informed: Digital archive, Digital editions, RSS feeds, Mobile, Emails, Home delivery

Hot topics

Edition:

About us

Subscribe

Latest

Top stories

Politics blog

Comment

Mrs Cameron's Diary

Pledge tracker

Find your MP

On Politics

Politics Weekly podcast

Highlights

Latest stats from Datablog

On this site

Columnists

More columnists

Quick links

Find out more

Policy

Parties and government

Sponsored feature

More ways to stay informed: Digital archive, Digital editions, RSS feeds, Mobile, Emails, Home delivery