IN a corner of the Twitter universe, last week was the week of Alistair Darling's big mumble, the moment when New Statesman magazine decided that the former Chancellor had not endorsed a description ...

NBC anchor Lester Holt did Hillary Clinton a big favor on Monday night when he brought up the “birther” issue, asking Donald Trump why it had taken so long for the GOP candidate to acknowledge Obama’s ...

"I had a diet Mountain Dew yesterday and one today and I'm sure they're going to call that racist, too," the Republican vice presidential nominee said at a rally on July 22 Alex Wong/Getty Images J.D.

If the polling is accurate, Rep. Jamaal Bowman is the heavy underdog in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for New York’s 16th Congressional District. The topline story of the race is, understandably, ...

Labour has alienated many of the key supporters who brought it to power in 1997, says former Home Secretary Charles Clarke. Writing in the New Statesman, Mr Clarke points to five fault lines which ...

BELFAST (Reuters) - When Northern Ireland leaders this month warned of the imminent collapse of the power-sharing government that helped end decades of sectarian killings, the reaction on the streets ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Nigel Farage’s decision to pull his Brexit Party MP candidates from Tory held seats has proven to be a controversial one both in and outside of his party. Express.co.uk Brussels correspondent Joe ...

I'M sure many readers will have marvelled, as have I, as to why it is that Gordon Brown and his Government's spectacularly pathetic performance in office, on so many fronts, should not have ...

Alienation is a concept born from the works of Hegel and, later, Marx. It is an idea that, though formerly popular with the radical left, has now largely fallen out of use. In this article, I seek to ...

It’s the legendary venue he’s always wanted to play: Donald Trump’s first and likely only night at Madison Square Garden was meant to be his last big pitch to undecided voters. But much of the focus ...

Jo Swinson insisted the Liberal Democrats would immediately revoke Article 50 and stop Brexit should British voters give the party a mandate to do so through a majority win at the upcoming general ...