Name: John Rentoul
Bio: John Rentoul is Chief Political Commentator for The Independent, and visiting professor at King's College, London. Author of The Banned List, Questions To Which The Answer Is No, Listellany and a biography of Tony Blair, whom he admired more at the end of his time in office than he did at the beginning. Sign up here to receive his daily "Catch-Up Service" email.

The first Twitter civil war in British politics

Some of us have been through it before: Labour politicians shouting at each other and calling each other names. Now they're doing it on social media

Focus group thinks Corbyn is 'scruffy, old-fashioned, weak'

These election results can't dislodge Corbyn – on their own

Catch-up: a Rhondda-vous with the history of 100 years ago

Boris Johnson’s record as Mayor of London after eight years

Top 10 films whose plot device has been overtaken by progress

David Cameron is not paranoid – Boris Johnson is out to get him

Mea Culpa: How much in dollars and how many data?

Livingstone has gone – but Naz Shah can learn from her mistakes

I have never seen anything like it. Things got rowdy in the Labour Party in the early 1980s. But not quite like this

Not even Corbyn actually believes the Tories want to destroy the NHS

There isn't any evidence behind this idea - so why is it so common?

The Top 10: Most English words

From codswallop to trundle, the most culturally English signifiers in the language of Tyndale, Cranmer and Shakespeare

Obama: I won't tell you how to vote but here's how I want you to vote

But Boris Johnson's clowning is a disservice to democracy: the British people deserve to hear a better case for Britain to leave the EU

Mea Culpa: a flashy backlash against mixed metaphors

PMQs: Corbyn made Cameron look weak on academies

Catch-up: 'Wait until we get our hands on the OBR' – Paul Mason

This is what post-Brexit Britain would look like

After the Chancellor hit them yesterday with a £4,300-per-household bill for leaving the EU, we look at what Leave campaigners said in Westminster today and what they mean

Catch-up: the lop-sided referendum and a genuine restaurant name

A round-up of things in case you missed them

If Cameron loses the referendum, he'll be a write-off

The Prime Minister needs Jeremy Corbyn to persuade Labour supporters to vote to stay in the EU, and the Labour leader made a good attempt on Thursday, but it may not be enough