Politics

The government has no plan to save a vanishing sector

In this extract from his new book, our editor-at-large reflects on why The People’s Vote failed... and what makes a successful campaign

It's time for Putin to cut his losses. Except he doesn't see it this way

All roads in Hungary still lead to its populist PM – but after missteps over Ukraine and EU funding, for how much longer?

Britain needs a bolder Keir Starmer who will challenge the home secretary over her shameful anti-immigrant rhetoric

As Russian rockets rained down on Ukraine, the contest’s political genie was finally let out of the bottle

Germany has returned 1,117 looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, but who really owns them?

The California city is now for too many like a plague-ridden medieval Florence, once glorious, now inglorious

Everything in the country seems broken. What would be the cost of putting it right, and how would we do it?

A new voting system does not mean progressives in perpetual power – if anything it would bolster the far right

Russia seems too tired and depleted to be able to resist tyrannical leaders

Teaching philosophy in the classroom can help better prepare younger generations for later life

Should the dastardly progressives impose PR on the nation, the days of the Tory minority exercising unlimited power could be over... the horror

Despite a flailing economy and soaring unemployment, president Erdoğan may retain his grip on the country's reins

Her piece is a nod to the cultural and intellectual links between Britain and Italy

Italy’s younger generations are swapping rush-hour in the city for country roads. Who can blame them?

By 2028, one in five of us will pay the higher rate - nearly four times more than in the early 1990s

They don't like to be called out for their Brexit lies - which is why it needs to happen more often

The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

The Conservative MP claims Brexit helped thwart Putin's Ukraine invasion. He is wrong

In Kyiv, defiance is tempered with the depressing reality that the west might not be prepared to let Ukraine win

The coming week will offer two possible paths ahead for the Conservative Party. Both are bad, but one is downright sinister

It’s being blamed for Sunak’s common-sense decision to retain most EU laws

Failing in Ukraine and undermined by his allies: make no mistake, this is the beginning of the end for Vladimir Putin

The window of opportunity for victory against Russia is open. If Zelensky does not succeed, pressure for a deal will grow

The UK’s problems are deep, but its pockets are not. What can Labour promise on the cheap to excite voters?

If president Biden’s gamble fails to pay off, the entire collective west will likely fragment

Activism is a normal part of the French experience. In Britain? Not so much

The financier and former Tory donor says leaving the EU was a plan by the rich to make themselves richer and the poor poorer

The country thought it was finally putting the financial crisis behind it. But a fatal train crash has thrown the general election into doubt

JJ4, a 17-year-old brown bear, killed a human – and now her fate is being decided by a television phone-in