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Keir Starmer is wasting time on bizarre claims about AI and productivity instead of convincing voters that he has a real plan.

Spain’s PM is ready to slap a 100% tax on property bought by buyers from non-EU countries

The self-styled 'Brexit hardman' has been reduced to flogging videos of himself on a celebrity website

Are the former prime minister's fingerprints on several of Elon’s most famous interventions?

The journalist and Reform campaigner badly misrepresented a Welsh charitable appeal

The broadcaster rails against the four-day week, yet took Fridays off during a recent radio stint

The Ukraine invasion and Musk’s Twitter buyout of Twitter show how weak accountability is in authoritarian regimes and among ultra-rich tech titans

Keir Starmer needs to change his language if he's serious about securing a better Brexit deal, a senior backbencher has warned

The Republican presidents appear to have much in common. But their policies are poles apart and Donald must turn his back on Ronald to make his MAGA agenda work

Flocks of green parrots, or monk parakeets, have invaded Barcelona

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has reignited fears in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia

The new senior civil servant at the Foreign Office is a force for good

Whatever the chancellor has to do to maintain fiscal credibility has to be done, but there is no reason it has to be spending cuts

Just look at what it did to Elon Musk – he bought Twitter, and it was all downhill from there

Though many women are stuck at home, they are now the best educated section of the electorate. If the Kosovan government stays in power, it will be down to them

Musk has used his social media platform as a lever to break into German and UK politics. But Zuckerberg’s changes at Facebook are even more insidious

Alice Weidel spouts fake facts and demonises Muslims - and she is getting closer to becoming Germany’s chancellor

This is not a game or a spectacle – it’s about the fate of a nation whose path towards independence is still unfolding

The Tory leader did nothing about rape gangs she was the minister responsible, and is only interested now that she thinks there might be votes in it

The official reasons Charlotte Owen and Ross Kempsell were handed peerages has been published - and things are still no clearer

The billionaire cares nothing for our sovereignty or democracy and must be cut loose

If you really want to know who cares about the victims of the grooming gangs, look at the people who actually try to help, rather than score points on social media

Mark Francois has sounded the Brexit betrayal claxon over a big change at the Foreign Office

The short-lived former prime minister is a doughty campaigner for free speech - unless you point out she crashed the economy

He wants it for the same reason Putin wants Ukraine

The child grooming scandal, said the Tory leader, was one of the worst in British history. So why had she never mentioned it before?

The appointment of the rent-a-gob columnist to its presenting roster is a sign of the station's shifting politics

The clamour for social justice got waylaid by too much virtue-signalling and too little action. Trump says it’s dead. But it is needed more than ever

Neither culture is flawless but, together, we could become more than the sum of our parts

MAGA’s resurgence means that works by George Orwell, Khaled Hosseini, Anne Frank and even Agatha Christie are under threat

Rather than take part in a fad, consider spending the month eating produce from regenerative farms