Politics

Her Partygate update has ended the prime minister’s bounceback and put his future back in serious doubt

Boris Johnson is promising a Brexit reboot. But anyone hoping for sensible solutions to our dealings with the EU will be disappointed.

Donald Trump may be leading the 2024 polls, but Ron DeSantis is eyeing the White House. Trump's apprentice may soon be telling him: "you're fired!"

Forget the Tory Party, the monarchy is a self-serving institution that does nothing for the average citizen of the UK, argues one reader.

The children in these photographs, Frieda, Silvain and Claude, were among those murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Regime change at No.10 could revive one vision of the British economy. But it remains totally unrealistic.

The tech-savvy state’s digital vision makes it the world’s fastest-growing ‘nation brand’. So what’s it doing right?

Using Thomas Paine's anti-monarchy arguments today suddenly makes close scrutiny of the royal family not look quite so promising, writes NIGEL WARBURTON.

According to newspaper Il Giornale, the case symbolises a giant clogging of the country's judicial system.

How one magazine links Dominic Cummings and the other key players in the Partygate psychodrama.

Even before Nadine Dorries’ intervention, the BBC was planning a shake-up to its funding. By JOHN KAMPFNER

Our columnist explains why, despite Ukraine's pleas for help, Olaf Scholz is desperately trying to ignore rising tensions at the border.

Where did the current cultural upheaval begin exactly? And will the social schism it has created end in unity – or a more deeply divided nation?

Comedian MITCH BENN sums up another sane week in British politics, from Michael Fabricant to Nadine Dorries' silence.

It is an impossible satire that Boris Johnson could be put on trial. But, if we had an independent authority, beholden to parliament not Downing Street, we wouldn't need one, writes PAUL MASON.

Records show the leader of the house's grandeur isn't all it seems. MANDRAKE is eager to see his old friend on an episode of Who Do You Think You Are?

Overseas observers are talking about Britain like it's suffered a natural disaster, says ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

A weakened PM must now follow their agenda on the BBC, immigration and Covid

As Tory infighting and political psychodramas dominate British media, the true cost of this government’s descent into booze-fuelled farce is being paid by British citizens, at home and abroad.

With Boris Johnson persona non grata in Europe, defence secretary Ben Wallace is minding the international store

While all eyes are focussed on Partygate, or even Adele postponing her entire Las Vegas residency, British businesses face exponential border queues. But, media outlets aren’t interested.

Boris Johnson's director of communications is quite the natural when it comes to obtaining personal mobile numbers. MANDRAKE wonders if this sometimes has sinister consequences.

The legalisation of cannabis in all its forms is almost here – all done bar the shouting, says WILL SELF

While Britain has focussed on Boris Johnson's partying and Prince Andrew, desperate people have risked their lives in cold and dangerous waters, writes NIGEL WARBURTON.

It was promised that Brexit would "give the Westminster elite a good kicking". One reader wonders why instead we have seen the breaking of lockdown rules, nepotistic Covid deals and corrupt funding for fancy furnishings.

Almost unnoticed as Partygate occupies minds and headlines, new Brexit rules are already doing serious damage to British business.

They shared a famous TV Brexit moment. When Mark Francois wrote a book, there was only one person who could review it...

The Spanish festival has returned only to be met with condemnation from animal rights groups.

Would hopefuls like Liz Truss and Valérie Pécresse deliver a calmer, fresher politics in the spirit of Ardern and Merkel, or just a retread of muscular Iron Ladyism?

Politicians are determined to clean up the city’s fabled sex and drug trade. But some locals aren’t so sure.

The photos recently released in celebration of the Duchess of Cambridge's 40th birthday came just at the right time, writes BONNIE GREER. But, they also have a deeper meaning.