News and Opinion

They are adrift in the polls, financially hard-up and morally bankrupt.. and now the Conservatives may not even finish second

What the Tories mean by a ‘supermajority’ is that they are set to lose really, really badly on July 4. Good

The best way to fight the Reform leader’s populism is to produce a united front

If the new prime minister gets it right, something better than Blairism is in prospect

Not one single asylum seeker has been deported there, but the UK’s ‘plan’ is seemingly now also an option for Germany

In past French elections, the left has voted for the centre to keep out Le Pen. Now the right is being asked to do the same – but will they?

John Redwood: the man who got everything wrong

If Starmer wins a majority of 218 or bigger, it will give him one very significant new power

A plea deal has saved the Wikileaks founder from facing more years in prison on charges that were fundamentally unjust

The BBC presenter’s flagship weekend politics show faces a doubtful future

Politics is very different on each side of the Atlantic - but the populist right is determined to bring US-style polarisation to Britain

Nigel Farage is finally an MP – but is the Reform leader now heading into the Westminster spotlight – or into irrelevance?

The Conservatives know their best hope of avoiding a wipeout is to stir up apathy

Their period in power is ending not with a bang, but a flutter

Something is rotten in our rivers and off our coasts, taking the country back to Victorian times

The Conservatives will reshape after election defeat – and Miriam Cates, at the vanguard of Britain’s growing religious right, could emerge as a leading figure

A year after the disastrous anti-Putin putsch that cost its founder his life, the Russian state-funded military group has resumed its mission to cause chaos and destruction – and in its more official guise is no longer trying to deny it

Labour’s Jovan Owusu-Nepaul is impressive – but is he really going to defeat Farage?

The bad news is that it’s beginning to work

The right wing press is predicting a Tory wipe-out – anything less, and they’ll say Starmer has failed

A Times columnist thinks Britain's departure from the EU has been a success. His readers disagree

Shutting out the press is a big mistake – especially if you’re heading for a big majority

The rest of Britain is catching up with London – but don’t celebrate just yet

Your weekly compendium of idiotic goings on from the bowels of Britain’s body politic

They’ve been losing big donors – has the party election machine run out of money?

He’s everywhere – and the Brexit press reckons he’s heading for Downing Street

Why shouldn’t hundreds of gay people gather in the woods at night to witness nude oiled wrestling between dykes?

The mainstream media made some spectacular errors of judgment in the run-up to the EU referendum and were played for fools by the Leave campaign

What are these pamphlets of political promises actually for – and why do parties with no hope of winning bother writing them?

The remarkable legacy of the late singer, who epitomised both French cool and French angst

The majority of British voters now recognise that Brexit was a disaster. So who is representing our views?