He voted for military action against Saddam, but without his friends' certainty

The Tory duo at the head of government is forever rewriting the script. That’s showbusiness. So expect more reversals before any referendum

Helen Mirren is about to reprise her Oscar-winning role as Elizabeth II in 'The Audience', a play by Peter Morgan, screenwriter of 'The Queen'. It opens in London next month. Her Majesty has seen 12 prime ministers come and go over 60 years, and the play promises to 'break the contract of silence' of her weekly audiences with each of them, from Churchill to the present day. John Rentoul offers a preview

Cameron deserves - and won't get - modest credit for his limited intervention in Libya

Within an hour of his return to Whitehall, you felt his presence. It's about grip

Opinion polls and their predictive power count for naught when stuff happens and the character of politicians is tested in its fire

Successful politicians tend to rise by being close to the party leadership

David Cameron pays tribute to his influential Tory colleague and former editor of 'The Times'

He's a 6ft 2in professor of history and not exactly a keen sportsman. Yet he weighs in at just 10 stone. What then is our political commentator's astonishing secret?

Our gloriously attentive pedant reviews the slips in this week's Independent