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James Ball

The burden of assisted dying

Putting a cherished but broken NHS at the centre of a complex moral argument is fraught with danger

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Pension credit claims double after winter fuel raid

Rachel Reeves will have less to spend - but will argue the rise in applications vindicates her strategy

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Losing Sue Gray won’t end the Starmer drama

Her departure offers the chance for a reset - but fixing Labour’s stumbling start needs much more than a reshuffle

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Cleverly deals a blow to Jenrick and Badenoch

An unexpectedly strong Tory conference speech leaves the right wing candidates unsure of reaching the final vote

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The case for audacity

Labour must deliver policies that make people glad they voted for a new government

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There is no Starmer superinjuction

Baseless rumours about the PM, Lord Alli and a court order are a right wing fantasy fuelled by grifter ‘journalists’ and social media

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There’s a whiff of Truss about Badenoch

Tory MPs are worried by the former trade secretary’s gaffe over maternity benefits

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Of course Starmer was right to meet Trump

The PM would prefer a Harris victory, but snubbing the Republican would have been dereliction of duty

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Sunak: the sequel?

The new prime minister’s government has started with worrying echoes of how his predecessor’s ended

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Starmer’s not for turning

The prime minister rejected a reset and instead fell back on old themes in his Labour conference speech

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Labour’s corporate conference

Sponsors’ stalls at the party’s Liverpool get-together shows how much the political axis has shifted

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The dangers of longevity

People in the UK are living longer lives – our economic system is not set up to deal with the consequences

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Starmer’s missed opportunity

Labour could have made a much better argument over the scrapping of the winter fuel allowance. But it didn’t. Big mistake

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Starmer is ignoring an open goal

Everyone wants to regulate lobbying – even the lobbyists. Why won’t Labour do it?

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The weird and artificial Tory leadership race

The slow march towards crushing defeat goes on

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Elon Musk: a man without a plan

A credulous, paranoid chancer, Musk has risen to fame through luck and other people’s hard work

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The winter fool allowance

Starmer’s decision to cut heating benefits for pensioners is woeful politics, and Labour MPs are in despair

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It’s time to build jails

Labour has inherited a jails crisis. Its short-term decision to release prisoners will be unpopular. The long-term answer might be even more so

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Killed by greed and deregulation

The Grenfell inquiry report is damning and heartbreaking

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The promise Starmer should have broken

Keir Starmer pledged no tax rises for working people, yet that’s impossible. Unless, of course, he drops his red lines on the single market and customs union

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Labour’s new smoking ban is cliched nannyism

There is no good reason for banning cigarettes outside pubs while allowing them on the pavement next door

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Bitter harvest: how Brexit harms our farms

Post-Brexit subsidies were supposed to save the countryside. Instead they’ve given landowners incentives to oust their tenant farmers

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France’s stalemate is the result of a broken constitution

The current chaos serves as a reminder that, on some fundamental levels, the constitutional settlement of the French fifth republic doesn’t really work

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The danger in Labour’s briefing battle

The public is sick of political in-fighting, so Keir Starmer must clamp down on No.10 leaks

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Whatever happened to good news?

It’s time Labour did something big and transformative to save us from a news cycle of misery

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The cult that ate itself

This was supposed to be the year populism triumphed. But a push towards its most extreme followers could be fatal

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The crank who can force Trump’s hand

Robert Kennedy Jr is deeply weird - but could still end up with a key role in a Republican White House

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The Musk/Trump mess

Technical issues delayed the start of the blowhards’ audio chat. The delay was the best bit

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The truth about Matt Goodwin’s big win

Getting honorary status at the university he has just left is nothing special

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Kamala Harris leads in the polls

But are her strong numbers evidence of a temporary “bounce” or a long-term “wave”?

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Matt Goodwin’s fall into the abyss

How a once respected academic embarked on a “sad, depressing journey of radicalisation”

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Disinformation station

GB News, the populists’ TV channel, has long tiptoed on the edge. Will making excuses for thugs finally send it over?

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