Politics

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.

Amid great uncertainty, shortages and rising prices, just what is the economic outlook for post-Brexit, post-Covid Britain?

Il Duce's granddaughter was the star of Rome's recent elections, and his spiritual ancestors are thriving in Italy too.

Insulate Britain infuriated the nation with their direct action. But were their tactics effective? PETER TATCHELL, the pioneer of modern protests, explains what works and what doesn't.

The causes of a grim week for Boris Johnson lie in an impatience with the rules that constrain his power, says Theresa May’s former deputy.

A woman trapped in Iran after being convicted of new, trumped-up charges. A husband starving himself in despair. A child facing another Christmas without her mother. And a government that won’t pay up to make it stop.

After working on Armin Laschet’s bid to become chancellor, our columnist returns to explore the relationship between her country and Poland

They may not matter to Boris Johnson and the same old faces from the Brexit campaign, but these principles cannot be discarded.

Response to last week’s cover story by Sarah Ditum, “The war against JK Rowling”, has dominated TNE mailbag, attracting both praise and criticism. Here, we publish a representative selection of correspondence from readers.

Comedian MITCH BENN explains it is barely an adequate metaphor to define what this government is doing.

Like the Labour Party in Britain, the Democrats are tearing themselves apart, and turning voters away with their public spats.

From the same people who brought you the 'watertight' plan to rescue Owen Paterson, their latest proposal will reignite the Brexit debate.

Tory knives are sharpening for a leader of the house who has lost all credibility.

In the latest u-turn from the government, Boris Johnson has relented to pressure from the Daily Mail over how MPs are policed.

The government is doing irreparable damage to the country, its global standing, and its democracy.

Afghan female judges and lawyers left behind in Kabul and beyond now have targets on their backs. BARONESS HELENA KENNEDY makes an impassioned plea for intervention.

Without properly thought-through measures from the government this piece of legislation risks making the internet worse.