Politics

Europeans watch Friends and eat burgers and think we understand America. Then elections like this make us realise we really don’t

As Ukraine despairs and Europe’s populists cheer Trump’s win, Keir Starmer faces up to the need to rejoin the single market

The new leader of the opposition had her first Commons joust with the PM today and scored a resounding diplomatic victory. Only trouble – it was against Britain

The result of the US election contains one clear message for Britain – and for Starmer

The news from across the Atlantic is brutal. But all is not quite lost

Trump’s return to power has been helped by the complete failure of the American left

The night started with nauseous optimism. Then came vodka and gloom

Trump is now ominously close to victory as the Harris surge proved a fantasy

The EU’s migrant return policy worked for years, and access to a fingerprint database is a very distant second-best

We’re on newsstands and through subscribers’ doors a day later than usual because of the US election

The hard right has achieved political power across Europe. British politics now faces exactly the same risk

Historians will analyse this election, and the phenomenon of Trump, for the rest of time

Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni has held her extreme political instincts in check – so far. If Trump wins, will that change?

Justin Webb allowed Matt Schlapp to toss out a series of obvious untruths involving Elon Musk, Hillary Clinton and the January 6 riots

Concerns over youth mobility and Northern Ireland are growing in Brussels

As a “stolen” election damages their country’s European dream, Georgians fear their divide with the west is becoming irreversible

The new Tory leader has been handed a shaky mandate by a depleted party rooted in deep denial

One Leaver says she’s still glad she voted for it... but there’s a good reason for that

There is no economic justification for all farmers passing their estates on to their children tax-free

A journey through North and South Carolina reveals the widening gap between the current Trumpian GOP and the party it used to be

The Harris v Trump contest remains on a knife-edge. So does the country

The floods north of Valencia have left a scene of almost unimaginable destruction

Stirring things up over this summer’s riots is bad, demanding that former colonies doff the cap is arguably even worse

Cringeworthy quips and one decent punchline marked the former prime minister’s final PMQs

The Budget largely avoided tough choices as the new chancellor put pressure on Wes Streeting by throwing cash at the NHS

Rachel Reeves made a start on fixing the Conservatives’ years of waste - but it is nowhere near enough

If you’re wondering how a person like Trump might win, just look at what some of his supporters believe

Rachel Reeves will neglect the fact that Brexit and being outside of the single market costs the UK “more than £40 billion a year”

The shining city on the hill has become a citadel of darkness. Whoever wins, American optimism is dead

Humanity could not exist without water. So why are we destroying our rivers?

The roots of Britain’s water crisis, like so many now facing the country, lay in Thatcherite deregulation

If the capital runs out of water, what then?