I spent four weeks in the American West for a presidential bid which brought people together across backgrounds and borders to fight for healthcare. Then came the most serious global health crisis in generations. What happened in Vegas In balmy February afternoon sunshine, three British campaign volunteers canvas shoppers outside…

It’s a trap… Londoners have seen plenty of Boris Johnson’s nasty authoritarian streak; we remember him blowing over £1million on water cannons he couldn’t use as a symbol of power over his capital. This is a first strike in what will be a pattern of behaviour that we need to…

Spoilers ahead “This isn’t going to go the way you think”, says Luke Skywalker to Rey early on in The Last Jedi. It may as well be Rian Johnson talking to viewers about a script which twists on hairpin bends sharper than its starfighters do. …

It’s difficult to describe hunger caused by an admin error. Little says more about the casual brutality of Britain’s ripped safety net than people being left with empty cupboards because someone fed the wrong data in. …

Chris Williamson is the newly-elected MP for Derby North — England’s most marginal seat- and Labour’s shadow fire minister. In the early hours of May 8 2015 Chris Williamson found out he had lost his Derby North seat by just 41 votes. This time around his insistence on talking up…

The culture of negligence and disregard that existed before the fire has persisted in the weeks following. Here’s how. Before “We need good costs for Cllr Feilding-Mellen and the planner tomorrow at 8.45am!” In July 2014, this chillingly innocuous-looking email was sent from a project manager to a cost consultant…

Parliament is currently wreathed in a web of scaffolding, money being pumped into its old joists and buttresses to prevent it from crumbling or burning. Its government occupants face the same fate — hurling buckets of cash into the breach to buy the temporary loyalty of Ulster mercenaries, shoring up…

No amount of rolling coverage and headline pictures can prepare you for seeing the scorched frame of Grenfell Tower in real life. …

Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to pay for universal free school meals out of private school VAT funds. It’s about time I have enduring memories of being mocked in the primary school lunch queue as I queued up for limp, watery potato wedges and pizza that I still believe was carved…