Journalist Abraham T. Zere has been identified as a 'security threat', and watched his colleagues go to prison. Now exiled in the USA, he reveals the dangers facing writers in the "world's most censored country".
Michael Gove's ambitious gene could not be suppressed, but this contest must be
With the humiliation of Boris, the Conservative Party has begun its process of healing – and Michael Gove has already shown the one quality all Prime Ministers need
In a leaderless UK it fell to Mark Carney to reassure us
It's right that Sarah Vine dictates the terms under which the next Prime Minister stands. After all, she was fairly elected to the important constitutional role of Michael Gove's Wife
The aftermath of the referendum has exposed weaknesses in our parliamentary system, our constitution and our democracy
Worryingly, almost half say they feel 'very uncomfortable' going to the police to report theft, violence or sexual violence at the hands of clients
The former Mayor of London is at liberty to wait in the wing, restoring his reputation while leaving the next Conservative PM to deal with the post-Brexit chaos
If you sent Captain Baldrick on a four day crystal meth binge and asked him to come up with a plan for the country's future, this, real life, is a more excitable version than what he would have come up with
By building the 48 Movement across parties to hold the Conservative government to account over the recession, immigration and inequality we can get ourselves out of this mess
Michael Gove's devastating put-down will haunt Boris forever – and it will be replayed should he ever dare to run for the Tory leadership in future
We are conditioned to feel content with a tepid reaction from our political leaders to atrocities in Turkey and the Middle East
'The environment that was created to play and to make a work of art, that no longer exists'
'When that irritation is combined with the warm moist environment of the genitals, it becomes a happy culture medium for bacterial pathogens,' doctors warn
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Gove implies that Johnson is less than wholly committed to actually taking Britain fully out of the EU, including the free movement of EU workers. That puts May in a strong position
We have to step out of our echo chambers and listen, even if we don't like what we hear
There used to be a genuine if imperfect mosaic of tolerance in the Islamic world, according to Islamic scholar Tarif Khalidi
He voted for the bedroom tax and got caught up in an expenses scandal - and now he wants to be our working class hero
Someone will very shortly dig out the archive of Michael doing his 'piece to camera' in front of a troupe of gay men in leather shorts dancing round Soho, delivering the line 'Out, Loud and Proud…' as punchily as he could in his soft Aberdonian accent
The Conservative leadership election is going to turn on the question of whether someone who advocated staying in the EU can be trusted to negotiate the terms of our exit