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When the deadline for candidate selection has finally passed, the mud-slinging will really begin

Renewing the Entente Cordiale in Macron’s remaining time in office will help bring Britain closer to Europe

For generations, the country has been run by the graduates of a single university. How can we protect public life from its over-confident, under-principled hordes?

How could a Labour government confront the disastrous decisions of the past?

Instead of the Tory demise, they’re talking Geri Halliwell and Lord Lucan

The Diane Abbott controversy, attacking Angela Rayner and… a podcast about Lord Lucan?

It might be new in the US, but European courts have been convicting their leaders for years

A new report spells out the depths to which they have sunk the UK

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Richard Holden, Emily Sheffield, Jacob Young and more

The Tories want to cut university places to give more funds to a failing scheme

The Labour leader needs MPs from all sides of his party, even the ones he’d rather do without

In 2010, the Conservative Party promised so much. How did they sink into poisonous culture war posturing?

For the philosopher Don Cupitt, God is the ideal we plan our lives around

Nothing sums up the chaotic idiocy of the Tory campaign more than their latest plan to reintroduce national service

The language is embedded in my family history; I just don’t have time for it yet

A post office queue leads to a disarming encounter

Emmanuel Macron is on a mission to restore ‘Republican order’ in New Caledonia

His team, Manchester United, won the FA Cup, but still face a tricky rebuild. Also difficult? His views on Brexit

Cantiano’s idyllic setting seems at odds with the cruelty that goes on there

If the political food lens is switched on, the Labour leader is something of a masterchef

After 30 years of coverups, what really happened when a Chinook helicopter crashed in 1994, killing key personnel involved in Britain’s battle with the IRA?

Rassemblement National’s European election candidate Jordan Bardella was humiliated in a TV debate. So why do opinion polls say he won?

Even in a country where smoking remains socially acceptable, restrictions still look likely to be widely acknowledged

As their election nears, Belgians political tensions are growing deeper

Great political mantras started with “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”. Can we expect anything as inspiring in this election?

The beleaguered British public deserve better than this morally impoverished Tory government

The conflict in Gaza is raising tensions across the world, but Gibraltar’s historic Muslim and Jewish communities maintain harmony

Skilled European workers are deserting the UK and Starmer could find a route to bring them back

The elusive F1 legend’s 10-year silence has fuelled a media frenzy in Germany

His ‘offer’ should be understood for what it is: an invitation to the west to sign its own death warrant

Is someone in the prime minister’s team deliberately trying to derail his campaign from within?

What the right wing papers think about Raynergate, the triple lock plus and private schools