Politics

After weeks of criticism over her department’s multiple failures, Priti Patel is brandishing her trademark smirk again after the passage of a series of laws that threaten basic freedoms at home and abroad

Rows with Brussels over the Northern Ireland protocol are holding up UK associate membership of the Horizon Europe funding programme - and now scientists fear Britain could lose some of its brightest minds as well as its place as a global leader

Pack your flags and mark May 8 with a spectacular afternoon of music celebrating our continent

Talk of a Tory wipeout in May 5’s elections is merely a game of low expectations – but they could still prove fatal to Boris Johnson

Marine Le Putin lost, Emmanuel Macron won - France will remain Germany's closest ally in Europe

The Russian people need a new national story of democracy - one which they write themselves

If and when Labour takes power, they must likewise focus public money on disadvantaged regions

The Allies beat a Russian blockade in 1948. Now it is incumbent on Germany to help lead a new wave of aid

The city may have made it to the silver screen, but there are no silver linings yet for Northern Ireland as election and Protocol tensions raise temperatures again

But, we also need art that exposes us to different ways of thinking about them

Social media has created a world with constant disagreements over objective factual truths. Political leaders abuse this and our prime minister is no exception

The city had always been kind to stray cats. The mayor said they had never gone hungry, but asks if they really need to house them now as well?

The white majority needs to ask itself what it can do to effect the necessary change to a policy which has done more than anything else to alienate black and brown Britons from civil society

The left may have discovered a way to rid themselves of the QAnon supporter and Trump enabler

Brought to its knees by Covid, the UK’s travel and tourism industry is now beginning to feel the full force of Brexit as border restrictions and the end of the VAT reclaim scheme look set to deter thousands of Europeans and others

It makes more sense for the home secretary to send incoming asylum seekers to be “processed in” Mars than Rwanda

Emmanuel Macron may have beaten Marine Le Pen in the presidential election, but France has not yet banished fascism

Heidi Hautala, now vice-president of the European parliament, questioned Moscow’s democratic credentials in 2006, causing a storm at home. Now, as Finland prepares to apply for Nato membership, she assesses the security situation in Europe

Why can't politicians be more like Jürgen?

The shadow foreign secretary hasn't entirely abandoned his dream of becoming mayor of London

The disgraced former minister is topping up his income with a lucrative retainer in the world of public relations

A Conservative MP has hailed the "local opportunities" crushing Brexit bureaucracy has brought to her constituency

The Polish military has no shortage of tanks and the last thing they want is Britain's old Challenger 2s, one source tells MANDRAKE

Nadhim Zahawi is practically a pauper compared to Rishi Sunak, who sits on a £750m family fortune

The idea for the story came from Paul Dacre, MANDRAKE believes

On the same day that France rejected Marine Le Pen’s, Slovenians dealt another blow to populism, casting out Trump-admiring PM Janez Janša in favour of former energy executive Robert Golob

The spectre of Marine Le Pen has been banished - at least for now - but there is plenty for the re-elected president to focus on

Jacob Rees-Mogg says we should ignore an EU push for speed limiters in cars - but it has the potential to save more lives than seat belts

Dale Vince is selling his green energy firm Ecotricity to enter the world of politics. He tells MATT WITHERS why (if not necessarily how)

An estimated 40% of the five million people who have fled Ukraine are children — many of whom arrive in neighbouring countries unaccompanied and afraid

The 72-year-old took what she thought was an unwanted jacket from the Paris museum. Her newly acquired coat was actually a work aimed to recreate the garment worn by Picasso