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The perils of playing politics on the big screen

19 February 2019

Vice and The Font Runner are both films with an important message about politics.

Alan Partridge’s political journey – from simplistic right winger to someone ‘more like David Cameron’

14 February 2019

'He understands you can be economically conservative but you have got to be socially liberal.'...

Top of the pols: the bestselling books about politics 2018

1 February 2019

Do we prefer insider accounts and journalism to more academic texts?

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Donmar unveils casting for Kids Company musical

8 May 2017

The new show features Camila Batmanghelidjh and Alan Yentob being grilled by various MPs.

Book review: Everywoman

29 April 2017

Jess Phillips’s disarmingly honest book manages to successfully weave the personal into the...

Book review: The Women Who Shaped Politics

24 April 2017

Sophy Ridge celebrates leading women in politics while documenting the sexism that they faced....

How cartoonists have coped with Theresa May and Margaret Thatcher

10 April 2017

The new exhibition at The Political Cartoon Gallery is being run in association with Total...

Meet the man who mashes up Nicola Sturgeon with David Bowie

4 April 2017

'There's too much politics!' says the man who's become a cult hero with his daily dose of...

Paul Mason's play about protest meets with a mixed reaction

31 March 2017

Corbyn supporting journalist's show ran for three nights at London's Young Vic theatre

Book review: Theresa May, The Enigmatic Prime Minister

10 March 2017

Rosa Prince’s instantaneous biography attempts to understand what makes Theresa May tick - and...

To be or not to be satirised: how politicians get the Shakespeare treatment

6 March 2017

Michael Gove is one of many politicians to have been compared to a Shakespeare character - as...

Interview: Comedian Tiff Stevenson on how to own Piers Morgan

27 February 2017

Stevenson talks about her political journey, taking on your enemies  - and parallels...

Jess Phillips book inspires donations to Women's Aid refuges

15 February 2017

The Labour MP's account of 'what it means to be a woman today' is out next week.

Book review: Margaret Thatcher, A Life and Legacy

8 February 2017

David Cannadine has produced an excellent, concise and incisive biography.

Book review: The Cabinet Office, 1916–2016

25 January 2017

Anotny Seldon argues that prime ministers have been most effective when they have worked with...

Almeida lines up 'anarchic’ comedy on Rupert Murdoch for 2017 spring season

20 January 2017

Playwright James Graham will explore how Britain's most influential newspaper gave voice to...

Theatre review: Mary Stuart

20 December 2016

Robert Icke’s three-hour production highlights how something as ostensibly benign as the toss of...

Comedy review: Matt Forde’s Christmas political party

16 December 2016

Forde presses all of the right buttons to get laughs from two rival New Labour heavyweights....

Keith Simpson's Christmas 2016 reading list

8 December 2016

John Bew's stimulating reassessment of Clement Attlee is one of 2016's best political reads....

Alan Johnson beats Ken Clarke to win memoir of the year

7 December 2016

Margaret Hodge was also triumphant in the first ever Parliamentary Book Awards.

Top playwright to pen Brexit TV drama

1 December 2016

James Graham's latest political project will look back on the run-up to the historic vote on...

Book review: All Out War & Unleashing Demons

24 November 2016

Tim Shipman has produced the best overall account of the EU referendum battle, while Craig...

Book review: The Bad Boys of Brexit & The Brexit Club

24 November 2016

Arron Banks and Owen Bennett both looked how Brexiteers conducted themselves in the EU...

Ken Clarke up against Labour duo for memoir of the year

24 November 2016

New awards have been launched by the Booksellers Association and the Publishers Association...

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