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The fragile relationship between the Press and politicians is at the heart of a procession of scandalous stories

As the government totters, its rabid lapdog is going all-out on attacking Labour

War in Ukraine is worsening farming’s Brexit-driven problems.. and now a food supply crisis could follow

The Conservatives’ ongoing economic incoherence is a poisonous legacy of their Iron Lady obsession

We need a prime minister who isn't driven by a competitive spirit and has a desire to work out what is best for the country. We are unlikely to find those characteristics in a sportsperson

There are real fights on free expression being carried out across the world every day. We must not let the more visible, sillier ones crown them out

The rich may be well-protected. But for the rest of us, this is going to be a very rough ride

The president’s achievements have been underplayed - and they contain lessons for Labour and the Lib Dems

Here's five ways the Tories could stitch up the next election

My criticisms of the culture secretary have nothing to do with her being a woman, and everything to do with her being hopeless and dangerously out of her depth

The problem with Emlyn Williams’ story – the talented, impoverished young lad in a mining town being recognised by a plucky teacher – is that it’s been done before and better

The Killing Eve star's stage debut is an important play, brilliantly acted, written and directed and with something worthwhile to say for itself

The latest payments take his earnings from the Bar to around £6.3m for the period he has been an MP

Experts gathered at last weekend's Byline festival and expressed their frustrations

Downing Street parties have proven the final straw for lifelong Tory voter Tony Blackburn

Labour's deputy leader hasn't wound up the company set up to support her campaign for the role

Rothermere, who pays minimal tax on account of his non-dom status, appears to be fretting about Starmer's pledge to abolish the loophole

Downing Street’s political strategist for the 2019 general election appears to make money out of anything he touches

Illumina and Complete Genomics offered similar deals for a generic sequencing project, but the former was awarded the contract. In 2017, Cameron joined as a consultant with an undisclosed salary

Ukraine should be the final push we need to close the legal loopholes that encourage oligarchs and kleptocrats to hide their assets in the UK

After weeks of criticism over her department’s multiple failures, Priti Patel is brandishing her trademark smirk again after the passage of a series of laws that threaten basic freedoms at home and abroad

Rows with Brussels over the Northern Ireland protocol are holding up UK associate membership of the Horizon Europe funding programme - and now scientists fear Britain could lose some of its brightest minds as well as its place as a global leader

Pack your flags and mark May 8 with a spectacular afternoon of music celebrating our continent

Talk of a Tory wipeout in May 5’s elections is merely a game of low expectations – but they could still prove fatal to Boris Johnson

Asparagus is a majestic vegetable and it remains one of the few whose coming into season is duly celebrated each year

In Erik ten Hag Manchester United have appointed a manager steeped in the finest Dutch traditions

If and when Labour takes power, they must likewise focus public money on disadvantaged regions

Social media has created a world with constant disagreements over objective factual truths. Political leaders abuse this and our prime minister is no exception

The white majority needs to ask itself what it can do to effect the necessary change to a policy which has done more than anything else to alienate black and brown Britons from civil society

Brought to its knees by Covid, the UK’s travel and tourism industry is now beginning to feel the full force of Brexit as border restrictions and the end of the VAT reclaim scheme look set to deter thousands of Europeans and others

It makes more sense for the home secretary to send incoming asylum seekers to be “processed in” Mars than Rwanda

A play about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole is hectoring and polemical rather than a serious examination of a character and her motivations