A year after the death of The Fall's leader - and following his own Mastermind tribute - fan MIC WRIGHT ponders the politics of a proven contrarian.

Theresa May has tried to convince us all she is just like batsman Geoffrey Boycott, but - as MICHAEL WHITE explains - on Tuesday her side lost three wickets.

STEVE ANGLESEY examines the fishy performance of the UKIP leader, Gerard Battern, and names his Brexiteers of the Week.

The PM is gambling on an appeal to Labour but she could still get her cards from the Tories

Michael White on how Brexit realist Philip Hammond lit Fleet Street's blue touchpaper.

STEVE ANGLESEY rounds up the losers and the losers (because there are no winners) of another crazy seven days on Planet Brexit

Brexit headbanger Nigel Farage dodged some potentially difficult question over the investigation into Russian links to Brexit when he hung up on a journalist who hijacked his radio show.

MICHAEL WHITE discusses U-turns from the PM and Boris Johnson as they try to keep a lid on the Brexit betrayal chaos

Former attorney general Dominic Grieve has called for Boris Johnson to resign from the Cabinet.

The European Research Group has issued a customs union "ultimatum" to the prime minister ahead of a crunch Brexit war cabinet meeting.

The right-wing media's furore over George Soros' donation to the anti-Brexit cause promoted accusations including anti-Semitism. But LIZ GERARD argues the real reason for the outrage was their fears his money could derail Brexit.

MICHAEL WHITE on the negotiation countdown, the Norway model and why we can't just muddle through.

The Cabinet is "united" in backing a transitional Brexit deal which would mean continued access to migrant labour, Michael Gove has said.

Among some of those who can see Brexit is a disaster there is a gloomy fatalism about letting it happen anyway. That is a big mistake.

Our culture correspondent on the filmmaker Francois Ozon, whose latest works veer from comparatively chaste to France's answer to Fifty Shades of Grey.

Students relying on Hilary Mantel for their Tudor knowledge may irritate historians. But such writers allow us to better understand the past

The devastation Brexit is bringing to the NHS will be felt from the moment a patient is admitted to hospital, right through the course of their treatment

... they never do, says The New European's election editor

It seems barely a month goes by without a European city celebrating cinema in a big way. We consider the essential film festivals for 2017

The danger to London caused by leaving the EU is well-documented. But it is the regions that face the brunt of Britain's Brexit woes

The Government is set to lose the legal case on Brexit, according to sources

Brexit power 100: influential figures from the worlds of politics, the media, entertainment, finance and football, and from all sides of the debate

As British Jews whose families once fled the Nazis apply for German passports, Bonnie Greer makes a plea for a world that seeks to expand, not restrict, horizons