United Kingdom

A major influencer in China visited and sparked a recurrent wave of visitors eager to try the same dishes they did

It is not an easy thing to say, but buying things online – specifically cheap, poorly made things – should not be as easy as it currently is

The next leader will be unlikely to take the Tories into the next election

At the Grand-Synthe camp on the French coast, people are risking everything to reach England. And it’s not for the benefits system

His life’s work has been a catastrophe – and now Hannan’s latest Brexit argument will be music to Putin’s ears

In 2023, we visited the Barniers at home. I would never have predicted that a year later he’d become Macron’s prime minister

The delusional europhobes want to set up a museum of Brexit. Here are a few ideas to get them going

Starmer’s decision to cut heating benefits for pensioners is woeful politics, and Labour MPs are in despair

Tom Stoppard’s play now seems irredeemably dated

Labour has inherited a jails crisis. Its short-term decision to release prisoners will be unpopular. The long-term answer might be even more so

The favourite to become the next Tory leader, once a vociferous Leaver, now seems loathe to mention it

Jonathan Reynolds’ reaction to business and trade questions mark an important turning point

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Tom Tugendhat, Jonathan Gullis, Mel Stride and more

There were difficult questions today for the prime minister, even if Keir Starmer kept forgetting who that was

The Grenfell inquiry report is damning and heartbreaking

… And that’s why he almost certainly has no chance as the Conservatives start voting

Keir Starmer pledged no tax rises for working people, yet that’s impossible. Unless, of course, he drops his red lines on the single market and customs union

How a biographer’s aside, the Mail’s performative outrage and the BBC’s cowardice led to a media storm over a portrait of Mrs Thatcher

Replacing unfair, outdated levies with taxes based on land value would benefit 77% of us and help the country level up

Predictably, the right wing paper has gone back on its promise to stop obsessing about immigration

Fusion won’t arrive soon enough to solve global warming but it could become a commercial reality in the second half of the century

Our armed forces are not fit for purpose. Here’s how to fix them

If Rachel Reeves wants to be a truly reforming chancellor, she should embrace a more radical approach to accounting

Many of us are hoping the prime minister's policy doesn't stray from pragmatic to heavy-handed

I may not be a fan of Oasis, but people’s excitement about their reunion is infectious

After 25 years, our diarist lays to rest the nation’s most feared and revered diary column

Labour should work with the Lib Dems and Greens to help stop polarisation and public apathy

Is the prime minister serious about his EU red lines - or just playing a long game?

Political parties belong to activists as much as they do to leaders