What does X factor, the SNP and this summer's riots have in common? It's that they force the English to look at themselves and to point to a new English identity that is not in any part British.

Despite what Ed Miliband thinks, August's riots were not the poor equivalent of what Cameron and Boris Johnson got up to at the Bullingdon Club. Cameron has struggled to live up to the Old Tory image.

It seems BBC Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis has decided to rise above Dr David Starkey’s attempts to goad her into a reaction after “that” in...

Ofcom will take no action against BBC2's Newsnight following an item on the summer riots in which the historian David Starkey claimed "the problem is ...

Beyond the obvious, there was something deeply troubling about David Starkey's appearance on Newsnight on Friday.

David Starkey's controversial Newsnight appearance where he said white people had "become black" and that Enoch Powell was "right" has attracted more ...

"Historian David Starkey has told BBC's Newsnight ''the whites have become black'' in a discussion on the England riots with author and broadcaster Dr...