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Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy at BBC Broadcasting House in London, after her appearance on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, January 18, 2026
Politics / 12 February 2026
12 February 2026
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to a community centre in Hertfordshire, February 10, 2026
Editorial: / 12 February 2026
12 February 2026
Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Ministers' Questions session in parliament in London, February 11, 2026
Labour Party / 11 February 2026
11 February 2026
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing a spending bill that ends a partial shutdown of the federal government in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, in Washington
US / 12 February 2026
12 February 2026

The US president’s career is defined by a consistent use of racist tropes and provocation. Why are world leaders so silent over his repeated vitriolic prejudice, asks ROGER McKENZIE

THE GREAT PRETENDER: Labour leadership contender Keir Starmer speaks on post-Brexit challenges at Westminster Cathedral Hall in London in Janruary 2020
Labour Party / 11 February 2026
11 February 2026

Paul Holden’s book, The Fraud, exposes a hidden war inside Labour, where claims of anti-semitism, amplified by media power and factional networks, were used to break Corbynism and recast the party. JOHN ELLISON revisits the scandals, investigations and suppressed evidence from that era

First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan speaks as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to a engineering workshop at Coleg Menai in Anglesey, November 13, 2025
Labour Party / 10 February 2026
10 February 2026
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer leaving 10 Downing Street, London, February 9, 2026
Labour Party / 10 February 2026
10 February 2026
Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson, September 7, 2001
Labour Party / 11 February 2026
11 February 2026

The Mandelson scandal reveals a political settlement in which democratic choice is curtailed and the power of markets eclipses the will of voters – only the left can challenge this, writes JON TRICKETT MP