Comment & Analysis

Pain, poverty and the cold, hard sound of Tory applause

The applause for chancellor George Osborne’s Conservative conference speech was as hard-edged as George Osborne’s smile. Even after all these years, he still hasn’t learned how to look convincingly happy. And the Conservatives like him all the more for it.

Comment: Miliband has run out of excuses for opposing an EU referendum

With powers being sent to Scotland, Ed Miliband can’t keep refusing Brits a say on the EU in the form of a referendum