Politics

Sensational reports of a plot to kill the Netherlands PM have raised fears about the seemingly sedate, safe country’s descent to narco-state status. But they are also a reminder of the country’s violent political past.

The violent histories of France’s former African colonies owe much to the continued meddling of Paris and other Western capitals.

The UK used to consider itself above the political chicanery found on the Continent. It can’t afford to now.

The PM has been wildly blaming others for the causes of the country’s crises. But this misdiagnosis only guarantees more pain.

Can Labour 'Make Brexit Work' as Keir Starmer suggested during his key speech at party conference?

We need to stop being told we aren't streetwise. Instead, there needs to be a sustainable method to keep women safe

There are different kinds of anger - some good and some bad. The right kind of anger can be valuable.

Boris Johnson gives reality cold shrift as Britain enters its Brexit Winter of Discontent.

Pictures emerged showing the winner posing with other models in the colours of the opposition.

While Britain is heading towards a Winter of Discontent, the EU is arguing over phone chargers. Comedian MITCH BENN gives his take.

The surviving Conservative Remainers have had little choice but to back some sort of Brexit, but their complete silence on the issue is shaming.

Bonnie Greer likens the governor of Florida to Michael Gove - both highly educated men, and both ushering in the Age of Stupid.

The news anchor becomes the latest voice to try to distance himself from the Brexit disaster.

Far right talk show host Eric Zemmour, a big defender of Maurice Papon, may yet play a decisive role in France's presidential elections, underlining just how much the tensions of the past still play out today.

It has had one of the highest Covid rates in the world – far in excess of other parts of the UK and the neighbouring Republic. So what is going on in Northern Ireland?

Singapore's island state has a well-earned reputation for law and order. But that doesn’t mean you won’t find vice there. 

From the BBC downwards, the UK media is consistently failing in its reporting of this government.

Britain previously relied on foresters from Eastern Europe. Brexit is now putting its stock of Christmas trees at risk.

Will EU truck drivers see through Boris Johnson and Priti Patel's plan to allow them back into the country for just three months?

Get your story straight, chaps. Either the public is infallible .. or they're not.

The country's curious election has changed everything.. we just have to wait to see how it has changed.

Why getting kids from poor backgrounds into journalism is a priority

England’s higher education sector is supposed to be a success story. So why does it feel like it is in such disarray?

The Tory silence on Brexit is understandable.. Labour's much less so.

After a dismal decade for centre left parties on the continent, there are now some positive signs tempered by a widespread failure to connect with voters. 

Regardless of its merits, the cack-handed handling of the defence deal between the US, UK and Australia risks handing the initiative to China and Russia.

The former Daily Mail editor was rejected from the position of heading up OFCOM - could he end up reapplying?

Sunshine, super-riches... and sleaze. Monaco sits like a melanoma on the Med, a city state throwback autocracy where anything goes - except the payment of taxes. Now the glamour that has always masked the iniquity is overshadowed by a Prince whose personal life is again coming under uncomfortable scrutiny.

Prince Albert is not only the prince of Monaco but something akin to its general manager. So when his private life comes under the spotlight, so too does his principality.

In a vote on the governor’s leadership through the pandemic, voters resoundingly rejected replacing him with a Trumpist Republican.

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