Politics

A new crop of hardline Christian fundamentalists think they should decide what’s taught in British classrooms. They’re just as sinister as their US counterparts

That was Suella Braverman’s verdict on immigration - and it is now the verdict on a politician setting her sights on No.10

Their idiotic interventions about Saturday’s protest have made a delicate situation much worse

We’ve been pretending for too long that nothing happened. But it did. And we need to talk about it

This was the time to tackle failing apprenticeships and the lack of an industrial strategy - it didn’t happen

The public wants, and expects, government to solve its own problems but this government is not equipped to do so

The assassination of JFK forever changed America’s national psyche

Italy has a history of premiers not completing their tenure. Will Meloni be any different?

Aleksandar Vučić’s sandwich PR stunt showed Serbians he’s all bark and no bite

Boris Johnson’s lack of focus and lack of humanity cost lives during Covid. Yet instead of facing charges, he is raking in the cash

Could the prime minister really lose his seat at the next election? A visit to his North Yorkshire constituency reveals the locals are true blue... for now

Now you can try your first Belgian beer closer to home

Remembrance feels more important than ever this year

Conspiracy theory surrounds the 1978 kidnap and killing of the former Italian prime minister in the centre of Rome

The damage Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings did to the country is off the scale

The new brand of Conservatism they sponsor is more disturbing than any cynical opportunism – and Sunak really believes this stuff

Nearly 60% demand more details of how think tanks are funded - and findings show right wingers are less transparent than those on the left

Cruella Braverman’s proposed new laws will make it illegal to even have mean thoughts about the Conservatives

The King’s Speech shows a government out of ideas and running out of time

Sunak has stooped to cheap sensationalism and the country deserves a leader who aims higher

The supply of drugs, including of antibiotics, is being squeezed

The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

The French philosopher and writer, born on November 7, 1913, was a publisher’s dream

Life for most people under 40 has been made needlessly complicated by this government. Making parenthood unaffordable is just one example

The crisis has put the Labour leader between a rock and a hard place

Whether in its mild or extreme forms, tribalism is as destructive as it is alluring

Thanks to higher costs, increased red tape and supply chain damage, we must get used to living in a country with empty shelves

If the Conservatives lose the next general election on the scale of their 1997 defeat, it will be a very long time before they can hope to win again

What can Europe’s classical history tell us about Putin and Xi?

Post-Brexit Britain slides ever-further down the EU’s list of priorities

There is a glaring problem with the way we choose prime ministers