Opinion

The countdown has begun to a UK general election. One of Britain’s leading political number-crunchers tells you how to read the data

This year, parties on the left must stop competing against each other

Who has the time for New Year’s resolutions?

It will be a year of political upheaval and war. If leaders can’t navigate a changing world order, the results could be disastrous

Donald Trump’s path back to the White House is not as clear as the polls suggest.. but it is there all the same

The route to a ceasefire in Gaza lies not through rhetorical demands, but through diplomatic pressure

Rwanda and Brexit leave Britain facing a humiliation not seen since 1956 – with empty shelves and economic angst at home

It’s time for British politics to leave its Groundhog Day nightmare

The Israeli prime minister’s failed, immoral policies are a deadly own goal – and they are pure neopopulism

Truss being allowed an honours list was a joke. But handing peerages to Tory donors is no laughing matter

If the Phlegraean Fields caldera were to erupt after 500 years of dormancy, Italy would be on its knees

Initially, I thought about attempting to predict the new year’s events. Then I realised that in the case of THIS new year, it simply isn’t possible

After four failed prime ministers in four years, the Conservatives are belatedly realising that all they have to show the electorate is failure

Anything short of a hefty Commons majority will be viewed as a failure for the Labour leader

Britain needs a government that doesn’t shy away from culture and art

Experts warn that it’s not a matter of if an emergency situation will be declared, but when

Sabaton’s animated first world war film, The War To End All Wars, makes for poetic viewing

Serbia’s frontier with Hungary has been turned into a war zone

Delors’ political vision was spot on for the time, just as it is now

The German politician and statesman, who died on Boxing Day, stood out as the embodiment of democracy

Ultimately, the prime minister knows which side his bread is buttered

The predicament of cancerous smokers is a bit like that of Brexit voters: we all did something fucking stupid, knowingly, and now we’re paying the price

Sunak ‘guaranteed’ the next general election would take place next year but it would be a brave man who would bet the farm on a promise made by the PM

Germany has dominated too much and Greece should never have been allowed to join

Most of the emergency government aid went to covering care homes’ loss of revenue. Care workers, meanwhile, kept the sector afloat through overtime

A failed prime minister is blocking progress as the country crumbles around him

More red tape will make life more difficult for producers - and more expensive for us

Theresa May and David Cameron already have plans to stop him

Local authorities can expect increasingly large cuts in the years to come as the Conservatives seek to fund their tax agenda

The pseudo free-speech lobby was never about freedom. It’s about allowing a small class of powerful individuals and ideas to dominate public discourse

But is the new prime minister brave or foolish - or both?