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Autumn began with a bang for Sadiq Khan. Londoner of the Year in the Evening Standard annual 1,000 top Londoners awards, GQ magazine’s politician of the year, the successful rollout of ‘hopper’ bus tickets. It all looks and sounds as though the result was preordained....

When she was elected chair of the public accounts committee, Margaret Hodge did not expect her work to be especially exciting. And when I began her book about that work, I was not expecting a thrill a minute either. Thankfully, we were both pleasantly surprised. As...

Up till now it seemed as if Conquest’s third law of politics – that the simplest way to explain the behaviour of any organisation is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies – applied most readily to the Trump campaign. Surely only a Democratic...

Next year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, which had a profound impact upon the history of the modern world, inspiring great revolutions against feudal or colonial dictatorships in Russia, China and Latin America, and...