Gavin Esler

The Prime Minister has won the confidence vote, but a leader who has lost public trust will leave sooner than later

Plenty of politicians mean well, but their ability to do good has been greatly undermined by factionalism

Graduates of the pandemic years have championed resilience in fine ways

A political deadlock and the rollback of the NI Protocol threaten to undo decades of peace

Art is the illumination of the human desire to connect and create, irrespective of the period or genre

The 100-year-old British broadcasting institution is under threat due to a licence fee saga

Cabinet members are just not listening to the civil servants anymore

Berlin is not always humourless and Britons can be 'economical with the truth'

'The Wasteland' was published in April 1922. A 100 years on, it is still relevant

Changing the definition of a problem, in this case a heatwave, does not solve them

Last week Sunak made what was billed as a major statement on the British economy

In war, the act of giving allows donors to overcome the sense of helplessness we all feel

A number of pressing issues at home are beginning to pinch the British public

Movies serve two critical functions when there's instability

Both Russia and Europe seem to be righting the wrongs of the 1990s, albeit from different perspectives