Playwright David Edgar reflects on the enduring relevance of his 1976 masterwork, which was revived on stage in a special performance this month produced by Byline Times

For 18 months, Byline Times has attempted to get to the bottom of a photograph showing the party’s leader with far-right activists. Now, this newspaper’s findings cast fresh doubts on Farage’s claim that he refuses to associate with extreme elements of the populist right. Josiah Mortimer reports

Instead of threatening Iran with a return to the Stone Age, the United States could look to ancient stories of imperial folly to learn a thing or two, writes Jake Arnott

The former Prime Minister did not destroy democracy outright – he re-engineered it into a system in which elections continue but meaningful political competition does not. His successor faces a complex dilemma of how to reform such a regime, writes James Bloodworth

The Labour Mayor of London spoke to Adam Bienkov about how 10 years of rising algorithmic online hate has put his own safety at risk and ‘put a target’ on the capital’s back

Reform UK’s head of policy endorsed the extremist ‘Great Replacement’ theory in a newly published conversation with the late MAGA activist Charlie Kirk. Nafeez Ahmed reports

The historic losses suffered by Keir Starmer’s party in this month’s local elections have finally exposed the flawed approach of abandoning its progressive base to appeal to Reform UK voters, writes Adam Bienkov