Politics

Politicians like Starmer and Scholz govern while looking over their shoulders. Rightists like Trump are more adept at concentrating power and using it

In a response to a critical analysis in the New European, Best for Britain argues that its growth numbers on greater UK-EU alignment do make sense, and that they reflect political reality

The populist commentator’s book on UK universities is filled with unoriginal argument, cherry-picked evidence and enormous self-regard. If he truly believes what he’s written, the only suitable response is pity

A diet of topics plucked from the pages of the Daily Mail and Telegraph is leading the Conservative leader down a dead end

The plans she has suggested so far will only yield economic benefits years into the future. But what can she do straight away?

A Leave-voting fisheries owner from the red wall was invited to praise Brexit – but told the channel it had been a disaster for his business

Half a century after oil and gas were discovered under the North Sea, Shetland is still enjoying the benefits that England threw away

Despite Putin’s brutality, Zelensky has held Ukraine together. Is Trump’s America about to throw the pressure back on to Russia?

The party has lost its identity and risks sliding into obscurity under the rudderless leadership of Kemi Badenoch

The president and his acolytes are creating a whole new way of running a country – and this is only the beginning

For philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers, phone crime is ‘more akin to assault’

One Sheffield man brought his world crashing down with an unwise post on X. But should he have ended up in court?

The scale of Ahmed al-Sharaa’s victory is immense. But, the challenge of rebuilding his shattered country is even greater

A recent psychological study revealed how the country picks its politicians. The results were nothing short of depressing

As a universal criterion applied to individuals, the president’s executive order on gender ideology is hopeless

The city is a prime example of why Pedro Sánchez has cracked down on people from outside the EU buying property in Spain

Once divided on independence from Denmark, the Faroe Islands now see a clear path forward – and it’s largely down to Donald Trump

The president seems to think his policies will make America more economically dominant. In reality, he’s running an enormous risk with the US’s reputation – and its currency

Joining in with Europe’s retaliation over steel import taxes would be self-defeating - but there’s a risk involved

The prime minister needs to crack down on crime, set and meet a fair migration target and bring in a UK ID card

A new report from Best for Britain overlooks a crucial problem that will frustrate Britain’s attempts to build closer ties with the EU

The White House’s destruction of USAID is a callous, catastrophic mistake that will damage America as well as the world

The right wing, Tory-supporting media is banging the drum for quick results, but trying to fix an economy as broken as ours will take time and patience

When the country goes to the polls, the divide will only become more entrenched

The idea, proposed by the Tory leader, that people should wait 15 years before being eligible for a passport, is nothing more than crude xenophobia

If coupled with actual delivery of better arrangements with the EU, Reform’s weakness on Brexit is fertile ground

The country goes to the polls on Sunday – and the people of Kosovo know exactly what they want

By offering the same old rhetoric on benefits, migrants and spending, Keir Starmer looks like the continuity Sunak

His ideas to redevelop Gaza are horrifying and absurd. But the strip is a warzone of rubble and bodies – if not this, then what?

For Badenoch and other politicians on the right, feminism is now a completed project