Philip Johnston

Next week marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the General Strike, a seminal moment in British political history.

Listening to the political debate ahead of the local elections in England next week, you could be forgiven for imagining that they were all about what damage Reform will do to the Tories and how the Greens will destroy Labour

Who said this? “We have reached the limits of the public's willingness simply to fund an unreformed welfare system through ever higher taxes and

Like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail , Sir Keir Starmer lies bloodied and dismembered on the ground but determined to battle on.

Will he, won't he? The nation holds its breath to discover what Wes Streeting now plans to do after getting the brush-off from the Prime Minister following a 16-minute confrontation in No. 10 ahead of the King's Speech.

Clarkson’s Farm is back. The fifth series is being broadcast on Amazon from June 3 with, no doubt, the usual litany of mishaps.

Sir Keir Starmer is preparing his legacy: not an economy that works or a military that can fight or a welfare system that can be sustained.

The lawn looks like the Gobi Desert, our pond has become a puddle and the paddling pool for the grandchildren lies empty and forlorn. Like millions of others we have a hosepipe ban, which seems hardly...

Few political issues provoke such controversy as the state pension: how much it should be, who should get it and for how long. On Monday, the British Chambers of Commerce became the latest organisatio...

Few political issues provoke such controversy as the state pension: how much it should be, who should get it and for how long. On Monday, the British Chambers of Commerce became the latest organisation to propose scrapping the triple lock on affordability grounds. The additional cost of the measure is set to rise to more than £15bn by 2029, far exceeding the estimate made when it was introduced by the coalition in 2012.