Politics

She is one of the most maligned and mocked politicians of our age. But the pioneering MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington has a record worthy of greater respect.

Our columnist looks at “only in Berlin” syndrome and at how the country’s capital fails its democracy.

Scottish independence is neither inevitable nor a dead duck, but the urge behind it is immutable and needs to be addressed.

The Balkan nation has emerged as an unlikely global centre of high- tech industry – and of hacking.

Scholz doesn't do charisma. True to form, he delivered his address seriously and without needless bumbling or theatrics.

Christmas is coming and people are wondering if the PM’s goose, instead of getting fat, may be getting cooked. What else could possibly go wrong?

Boris Johnson's blunders since Brexit makes for quite the list, does the public now have buyer's remorse?

Finally – a Visa-free aspect to Brexit. At least that’s what the deluded Dominic Raab is likely to tell you...

This tale of two cities is less about a booming Brexit Britain and more about a government that continues to favour oil and gas firms even as Boris Johnson says the planet is at “one minute to midnight”.

UPDATED 13.30: Apparently they've changed their minds now.

Americans are set to spend $1billion dollars on this year's Thanksgiving, but the celebration is not without its problems and there are those who want it replaced by a day of atonement.

Why Boris Johnson's true hero is more like the cynic philosopher Diogenes of Sinope.

In an extract from his new book, Freedom: How we lose it and how we fight back, Hong Kong dissident NATHAN LAW, once jailed by the regime, warns of Beijing’s tightening grip on culture.

Our columnist steers a steady course to bring us up to speed on a debate raging on Germany's roads

More revelations surrounding the Tory MP Geoffrey Cox reveals how he has made a tidy sum in Mauritius.

The New European's mailbag was filled with letters about the latest accusations of Tory sleaze.

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

The Spanish earth groans with horrors a modern mind struggles to comprehend, yet which were buried there within the lifetimes of our grandparents.

The posturing of Putin and Lukashenko on the Poland-Belarus border risks lives while leaving Europe on the brink of erecting walls.

In a revealing interview, former Conservative chancellor Ken Clarke tells TIM WALKER his fears – and hopes – for the country, and of his sadness at what the Tory Party has become.

Boris Johnson’s record as a man unscrupulous in both public and private life is second to none. Recent polls suggest a swing away from the Tories, so is the public finally demonstrating a degree of buyer’s remorse?

Comedian MITCH BENN provides a list of other jobs MPs could take.

A new poll shows that all the “Brexit good news” is not getting through to voters. Strange that...

The summit failed to offer any immediate hope to those on the front lines of climate change.

It may have been bumped from the front pages, but the prime minister is far from escaping the sleaze quagmire.

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL shares some of the secrets from behind-the-scenes of the latest airing of BBC Question Time.

As the UK threatens to trigger Article 16, raising the prospect of a trade war with the EU, people on the island of Ireland wonder if any of this political theatre is really about what’s best for them.

Foreign office officials have offered no fresh hope that they can get his wife, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, home from Iran alongside other British-Iranian citizens being unjustly detained. 

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

Philosopher NIGEL WARBUTON on the link between those who are cruel to animals and violence against humans.

Figures from Mandrake reveal how Reform UK is still making a profit.