Profile: Seumas Milne, Corbyn’s press man, who has never quite grown up
As a Labour source said in a fury, “It’s a superiority thing…he’s strangely incurious about people either unlike himself, or with different views.”
Profile: Penny Mordaunt, a risqué but not revolting potential Tory leadership contender
The Defence Minister, and MP for Portsmouth North, is backing Brexit, and knows how to make a splash.
Profile: Vidkun Quisling – whose name is flung at Eurosceptics who support Cameron. And who was once awarded a CBE.
At school, he was considered a genius. As a staff officer, brilliant. As an aid worker, altruistic. But then he fell in with Hitler.
Profile: Louise Casey, the Tsar for all seasons – now preparing at Cameron’s behest to take on conservative Islam
To her detractors, she is a loud-mouthed yob. But this brilliant official has become a vital figure in the campaign against Islamist extremism.
Profile: Sadiq Khan, the Miliband protégé running for Mayor of London
Khan has a remarkable ability to understand what people want to hear, and an almost unbounded willingness to say it.
Profile: Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury – part, however inadvertently, of the renaissance of the ruling class
In political terms, the Archbishop is weak. But he also has the faith, and the skill, to make the most of that weakness.
Profile: Ed Llewellyn, the pocket Talleyrand of Downing Street
The energies of this unknown but highly influential figure, Cameron’s right-hand man for the last decade, are bent on the EU renegotiation.
Profile: Rory Stewart, more Churchill than Wooster
The floods minister had an adventurous early life, and is seen as a future Foreign Secretary, but how long can he bear Establishment life?
Profile: Brussels, where the European Commission is a shadow of its former self
As Cameron’s renegotiotion looms, the Eurocrats no longer know where they are going, and grapple instead with the refugee crisis.
Profile: France – and its future relationship with the EU
In the wake of the Paris bombings, the second of our profiles on European countries and institutions – and their role in Cameron’s EU renegotiation.
Profile: Germany – and its future relationship with the EU
The first in a series of three articles on European countries and institutions – and their impact on Cameron’s renegotiation.
Profile: the Resolution Foundation, suddenly in high demand as a critic of tax credit cuts
Led by former Treasury officials, this think tank has placed itself at the heart of the argument about how to help the low-paid.
Profile: Manchester – venue of next week’s Conservative conference, and city of the Northern Powerhouse, which could transform it
George Osborne’s project, though mocked by some, is already changing the politics of the North, by recruiting influential Labour politicians.
The Eagle twins show why Labour has become so limited
Maria and Angela Eagle have many admirable qualities, but their political generation is so unknown to the wider public that it left the vacuum now filled by Jeremy Corbyn.
Profile: Tom Watson, the man who might yet save the Labour Party
The West Bromwich MP, who condemned Blair for leading Labour into the desert of pragmatism, may deliver the party from Corbyn.