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Cobra star Robert Carlyle felt sorry for Theresa May after playing PM role in new Sky thriller

17 January 2020

The star of Sky One's latest political thriller said he felt sympathy for embattled PM Theresa...

Official Secrets: Tony Blair’s ‘naivety still stinks’ for whistleblower film director

18 October 2019

“Katharine Gun was an ordinary person who did something extraordinary,” is how director Gavin...

Does Nigel Farage work hard enough? Steve Bannon says not

10 June 2019

Nigel Farage doesn’t work hard enough and it’s a British thing, according to Steve Bannon in the...

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Why neither playwrights nor politics can resist Boris

30 April 2019

Why playwright Jonathan Maitland couldn’t resist the temptation of Boris and “the dinner party...

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?

Book review: Churchill, Walking With Destiny

14 January 2019

Andrew Roberts' massive biography is now the best single volume on Churchill’s life. ...

Politics on the small screen: Brexit according to James Graham and Benedict Cumberbatch

7 January 2019

How Graham dealt with the 2016 referendum battle - and having a global superstar...

Theresa May breaks America, but not in a good way

17 December 2018

A-list stars join skit sending up the Prime Minister's woes on iconic US comedy show Saturday...

Guests get to their feet as ‘flirtatious’ David Dimbleby bows out of BBCQT

14 December 2018

Watch: The veteran broadcaster was given a rousing send-off on his last show before Fiona...

Keith Simpson's Christmas 2018 reading list

11 December 2018

Which books did the Conservative MP advise his colleagues to read this year?

Tomes by Tessa Jowell and Jesse Norman triumph at Parliamentary Book Awards

5 December 2018

Ruth Davidson and Alan Johnson both just missed out on the night.

Coming soon: Jacob Rees Mogg, the biography - by Lord Ashcroft

30 November 2018

Jacob’s Ladder will be published next summer by Biteback.

Brexiteers performing in Eurovision win 2018 Political Cartoon of the Year

28 November 2018

Boris Johnson and David Davis' band was called 'Fucks Bizz'

Book review: The New Silk Roads

20 November 2018

Continuing his thesis that western dominance is coming to an end, Peter Frankopan has written as...

Book review: Sultan of Swing – The Life of David Butler

12 November 2018

Michael Crick’s biography of the first ‘telly don’ gives some fascinating insights into our...

Benedict Cumberbatch gets into character as Dominic Cummings

6 November 2018

Watch: Cumberbatch in 'middle-ranking civil servant' mode.

Book review: Britain’s Best Political Cartoons

1 November 2018

Once again, Tim Benson has collected some of the best work by our top satirists.

Michael Moore on the rise of Trump and his new film Fahrenheit 11/9

19 October 2018

The award-winning American filmmaker spoke to TP about his latest offering.

Book review: Ruth Davidson and the Resurgence of the Scottish Tories / Yes She Can

10 October 2018

Andrew Liddle has written the first biography of Davidson, while the Scottish Conservaitve...

Politics on the small screen: SW1 meets Fleet Street in Press

7 September 2018

Writer Mike Bartlett gives the inside track on his new BBC drama, which is based in two...

Today editor speaks out on John Humphrys - and getting 'impatient' with politicians

6 September 2018

Sarah Sands was speaking at a Broadcast Press Guild lunch.

BBC boss lifts the lid on new political show’s rare female-only panel

3 September 2018

Politics Live launched this morning with Amber Rudd and Emily Thornberry among the guests.

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