Politics

The Swiss are famously moderate – but when an image from a Basel carnival went viral, it led to a period of national self-examination

The withdrawal of USAID has ended the system of Aids treatment and research in the most affected country on earth

The Brexit reset deal will fix some of the mess made by Boris Johnson and Lord Frost. No wonder the latter is already moaning about it

Who knew about his plans to reverse his tariff policy, and who benefitted?

The idea that digital regulation is an attack on free speech is a myth, largely perpetuated by allies of big tech

Young men used to worship Trump’s buddy - now they are rinsing him while he struggles on a video game livestream

Trump’s dangerous adviser believes in an economic theory that was disproved 200 years ago

Fears from Brexiteers and in government are the last stumbling blocks for a reset deal that keeps the continent safe and boosts trade

If Trump and his vice-president have a genius for anything, it’s global media dominance

Thanks to the SPD, expectations of the soon-to-be chancellor are now so low he can hardly fail to impress once in office

The petulant far right billionaire rips up jobs, risks lives, makes Nazi salutes and taunts anyone who disagrees – then complains

Across the river from Russia, the Estonian city of Narva is part of the European Union. But Vladimir Putin is watching and waiting

The UK needs to stop trying to do a deal with Trump, move away from the US, and rejoin the European Union

The photographer’s images command attention – whether capturing the fiery passion of an activist rallying a crowd or the powerful, expressive gaze of a lone protester

How did Trump secure a second term? Why has he started a tariff war? The 2017 winner of the Pulitzer prize for drama offers an explanation

Serbia has seen five months of student protest and now the country is at breaking point

Nothing could prepare me for the experience of going to a gym sauna in the US

The opposition in Turkey has been reluctant to use protests as a tool against Erdoğan. But the arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul, has changed everything

If the vice-president wishes to return to the country, he may want to be better prepared

MAGA’s trade war has abruptly silenced Farage and other useful idiots who once echoed his agenda

Global finance's hopes that the White House would drop tariffs led to them jumping on a piece of fake news

Keir Starmer’s chumminess towards Trump has protected the UK from the worst of his tariff madness. But it also risks a rift with the EU

One of the Beatles’ great gifts was to reconcile masculinity with emotional intelligence

Spain has made a spectacular economic recovery since the last economic crash– but Spaniards are still struggling and fear Trump’s tariffs might trigger another disaster

An Israeli and a Palestinian are turning their grief into a call for an end to violence. Is it pointless?

No complex calculations have gone into these import taxes - just reckless back-of-an-envelope stuff

The US president has relentlessly attacked the institutions of American life. But there is one thing that he cannot defeat, because if it falls, it will take him – and the US – down with it

The only answer for Britain is to build closer ties with our single biggest trading partner – and that is not the US

The GDP hit from being out of the EU is far worse than the one we’re facing from the White House

The last time the US imposed blanket tariffs it led to global economic and political disaster. This time could be just as bad. How can the rest of the world defend itself?