One February afternoon in 2010, the Guardian published on its website a call from the Liberal Democrats’ home affairs spokesman, Chris Huhne, for a judicial inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal.

There is no way the Conservatives can sugarcoat the results so far from yesterday’s elections. They are awful. In Blackpool South, Labour yet again captured a previously Tory seat with a swing of more ...

There is a sense of incompleteness about what is known about the phone hacking and other unlawful methods of information gathering used by the British press in the early part of this century. There is ...

When the big trial into phone-hacking by one of Britain’s most powerful media empires ended in June 2014, the Guardian disclosed a potentially explosive development. Scotland Yard had given formal ...

It is 10 years since the big phone-hacking trial ended at the Old Bailey. Ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson went to prison; ex-News International chief Rebekah Brooks walked free. It was the ...

Two and a half years have passed since the withdrawal of Nato forces left the Taliban to sweep across Afghanistan, leading to the collapse of the Afghan government, a mad scramble by western allies to ...

Be prepared. Next weekend each party will be trying to persuade us that they have done better than expected in Thursday’s elections and are on their way to victory (Labour), recovery (Conservatives) ...

MPs, peers and journalists recently got very excited over who should be allowed to own a newspaper in the UK. The Telegraph, for the moment, seems safe from falling into the officially designated ...

Britain in the late 1970s was a bleak place. By 1978 unemployment had reached record postwar heights of up to 6 per cent. Between November that year and the following March, the United Kingdom saw its ...

When the big trial into phone-hacking by one of Britain’s most powerful media empires ended in June 2014, the Guardian disclosed a potentially explosive development. Scotland Yard had given formal ...

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And just like that…the stereotype changed. Until very recently, gen Z, including students in western countries, were being lambasted as sheltered “snowflakes” lacking in drive and ambition, too ...