Burnham must run fearlessly into the future – and this is how
The PM-in-waiting has 18 months, tops, to reset Britain and save it from Farage
Politics
British voters ready to integrate with the EU, says new survey
New polling suggests that old Brexit red lines are falling away, with a majority now open to freedom of movement
In the shadow of the World Cup, people in Mexico and the US are disappearing
Organised criminals have been abducting and disappearing people in Mexico for years. But the same is now happening in the US, and there the perpetrator is even more powerful
The clique that destroyed Keir Starmer
He could have been a great PM but subcontracting his political thinking to Mandelson and co has led to his demise
Burnham won, but he’s got all the same flaws as Starmer
Burnham is precisely the opposite of what Labour and Britain need from a new PM
Burnham’s launchpad, Farage’s failure: All the winners and losers of Makerfield
A good night for Vorderman, Miliband and Lowe, a bad one for Kenyon, Polanski and Streeting
Ten years of Brexit: The lessons of a low, dishonest decade
Build coalitions, revive internationalism and join – not rejoin – the EU. But be prepared to question your own assumptions, too
The Brexit experiment failed – now the EU needs Britain back
The EU that Britain left no longer exists. Now, much of Europe wants Britain to help bolster the bloc against the US and China. It’s time for the UK to abandon its failed experiment and to re-engage
Germany’s new national obsession: Checking if grandad was a Nazi
A list of Hitler’s party members is now searchable – but files that might embarrass the post-war elite remain stubbornly out of reach
My journey to see what makes the Finns so happy
The Nordic nation has been named the ‘happiest country in the world’ for the last eight years. Why?
The broken bridge that sums up Germany’s attitude to its crumbling infrastructure
Decades of neglect have left road, railway and energy repair facing an investment gap of £400 billion
Putin’s dirty war comes to Romania
A Russian drone crashed into a residential area in a Romanian border town. What came next was even more worrying
The science is clear – the world is heading for water catastrophe
Scientists predict that, during the next century, entire regions of the earth will run out of water. And the day that a tap is turned on and nothing comes out, it will all be too late
Could climate change bring malaria back to Britain?
The warming climate is pushing disease-carrying insects as far north as the Arctic – with unsettling implications for Europe
Caroline Lucas: No10 ignored MI5 and MI6 warnings on climate change
The former Green Party leader says that the government wants to ignore the climate crisis and if Nigel Farage gets into power, Britain’s climate policy will become even worse
How do you farm if you don’t have any land?
In Singapore, the land on which houses are built is so expensive it’s worth many times more than the houses themselves. That makes farming next to impossible. So where do you get your food?
What happens to the Gulf when no one wants its oil?
The region is getting hotter and drier to the point of being uninhabitable. And in the coming decades, as the world moves to renewables and the oil price starts to collapse, what then?
Badenoch’s break: swimming, donkeys and plenty of climate denial
The Conservative leader and her family have once again been the guest of the chair of a climate science denial group
Elon Musk joins the Mount Rushmore of Wall Street’s malignant geniuses
Like Carnegie, Rockefeller and Ford, his brilliance is paired with a callous disregard for human values
Never mind the social media ban. What about cutting the endless homework?
My kids do 150 minutes of study every night. If we want to give them their childhoods back, start there
EXCLUSIVE: UK government invests in Trump nuclear fusion company
US President’s media business co-owns technology firm now backed by Britain
This is how Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar house of cards could collapse
His fortune and empire are more fragile than his IPO’s backers believe
The evangelicals who want to control kids’ mobile phones
New safety technology is coming to the UK’s mobile phones. But it hasn’t been tested, and has to be uploaded onto millions of devices. There’s the issue of the people who own that tech – who, really, are they?
Did AI just win its first literary award?
An argument has broken out over a short story prize. But the argument over whether the author was human has revealed an unsettling truth about computer-generated text
The greatest country star you’ve never heard of
‘I photographed the Tommy Robinson march – here’s what I saw’
Mike Pickering, the Haçienda’s secret weapon
Britain isn’t the country you think it is
Caroline Lucas: No10 ignored MI5 and MI6 warnings on climate change
Joanna Cherry, the woman who escaped the political nightmare
Robert Newman: ‘I was heckled inside my own house’
