Richard Angell Articles

Time to convince fellow members of Labour’s founding purpose The Labour party was founded as the Labour Representation Committee in 1900 by Keir Hardie and others to secure parliamentary representation of labour, because he and the founding trade unions had concluded...

James Graham's play, This House, exploring the working-class heroes in the whips' office –  who fought the Tories and hard left to keep a Labour government in office – feels more poignant now than when it first opened in 2012. Reopening at the Garrick Theatre,...

Tomorrow is the autumn statement. It is the first economic intervention by the new chancellor since Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. But this is not the statement of a new government. This is the sixth year of this Tory government. What is unclear is if...

'This is your captain speaking. The new president of in the United States is ... Donald Trump'. News that the Barack Obama's successor is the rightwing orange demigod is met with groans on my flight as I head as far away from last night's new as is humanly possible....