uk election: all articles

Boris Johnson's election demonstrates a wider public distaste for the very idea of politics

The ice of Britain’s political system is melting. A potent coalition for electoral and constitutional reform is assembling. Tom Nairn registers an inexorable shift.

What lies beneath the campaign for reform of Britain’s first-past-the-post electoral system? Dominic Hilton investigates.

A mad electoral system rewards Tony Blair, but British citizens are making it work for themselves, finds Dominic Hilton.

On the eve of Britain’s general election, Tom Burgis reports from the midlands town of Mansfield where an independent councillor is campaigning to storm a Labour citadel.

British Muslims are rethinking their political allegiances in the context of social exclusion, post-9/11 political pressure and the challenge of remaking their communities. Tony Blair’s New Labour could feel their backlash, says French-Algerian journalist Naima Bouteldja.

In a tumultuous corner of a tired, formulaic British election, Dominic Hilton is exhilarated, alarmed and amused by the electrifying passion of that rare thing: real politics.

One party in the current British election has made climate change its priority – the Greens. Yet many dismiss a vote for them as a wasted vote. James Humphreys, a Green candidate in London, argues that, on the contrary, it sends a powerful and effective message.

The row over Iraq intelligence focused attention on the Joint Intelligence Committee, the top coordinating body of Britain’s secret state. But how does the JIC operate? As Iraq forces itself onto the British election agenda, Dan Plesch finds a disturbing answer.

An army of independent, single-issue candidates is challenging the party machines in Britain’s general election campaign. Tom Burgis on a new age of guerrilla politics.

The legal advice that sanctioned war in Iraq falls over Britain’s general election campaign. Geoffrey Bindman examines an issue that won’t go away.

Tom Nairn offers his advice to voters in Britain’s general election.

As Tony Blair launches Britain’s general election campaign, a postal-voting scandal is further undermining voters’ trust in their political leaders.

Britain’s election: a crisis in the opposition Conservative party exposes the country’s malaise of political distrust, says Dominic Hilton.

As Britain’s general election approaches, an anti-terrorism law reveals to Dominic Hilton why British politics is beyond a joke.

Britain's election: what’s causing voter apathy? Dominic Hilton visits Birmingham, England’s second city, where a vote-rigging scandal and Conservative leader Michael Howard offer some answers.

Tony Blair, the most self-consciously modern of political leaders, rules over a political system far less at ease with the world. Dominic Hilton examines a very British paradox.