Politics

The Daily Mail commentator thinks bringing the late Queen into politics is distasteful. It’s hard to imagine a more hypocritical view

It’s easier for Xi to make friends abroad when he has the Russian dictator by his side

At a hearing in DC, the leader of Reform said that he does not ban journalists from his party’s conference - just hours after his party banned The New World

Reform claims to be the party of free speech, but this last-minute decision to stop me attending its conference tells a very different story

For decades, US survivalists have warned about a future with troops on the street and plain-clothes goons disappearing the White House’s enemies. Now it’s all happening under Trump, they are silent

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Easily dismissed as a diminutive thug, the unfortunate reality is that he understands perfectly the role he has to play in propagating hateful racist nationalism in a country increasingly receptive to his message

Fentanyl, the synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin, is posing a health crisis in the US. But the Trump administration are happy to pretend it isn't happening

Taiwan's convenience culture isn't going anywhere. When it's become a way of life, how could it?

Forget Prime or HBO, Germans are fixated by the case unfolding live in a high-security Hamburg courtroom usually reserved for terrorism cases

Right now, Xi Jinping is letting Trump do all the soft power heavy lifting for him

In today's world, media doesn't need AI - it needs real journalists

The right have been radicalised, while abuse forces moderates off the platforms. This can’t go on

Britain is drowning in hate. We can’t let Farage remake us into a truly nasty nation

The chancellor lacks the calibre and clout to spell out Britain’s challenge - and the inevitable pain involved in fixing it

Questionable foreign deals, crypto gambles and putting the squeeze on media opponents have seen Donald Trump make $3.4 billion from the presidency. And he’s not finished yet

Costly childcare and housing, short paternity leave, poor support for the self-employed - no wonder more people are choosing not to have babies

The country’s rentrée – the return from summer holidays – is in progress… and so are political blackmail, mass protests, corruption and the probable collapse of the government

Labour have failed to connect Farage with economic disaster in the minds of ordinary people. That must change

The man who would be PM has already spent a decade getting much of what he wanted - and none of it has worked

Vladimir Putin claimed the city was Russian in 2023, but staking the claim doesn’t make it so

The financial crisis left Britain weaker, poorer and more vulnerable to liars - and we’ve never recovered

A cross of St George or a union jack flown today means the same as it did in 1977: ‘You’re not welcome here’

A new book sheds light on the growing gap between the US and the west. It’s time to prepare for the break-up

Stories about a Chinese ‘artificial womb’ seem more science fiction than fact – but reveal uncomfortable truths about the ethics of reproduction

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Debt, remote classes and the rise of AI are making the student experience less fulfilling than ever. But there is still hope

Now formally a woman, Liebich has received an 18-month prison sentence for incitement of hatred and cheering on Russia’s war in Ukraine

The Italian government has given the green light to the Strait of Messina Bridge, a €13.5bn project to build the longest suspension bridge in the world – but not everyone is on board

Unfortunately, this time comes with unique reminders of the inequality and suffering that is the core experience of South Africans

With 50 to 60 million dogs on the streets, India’s cities have struggled for decades to balance compassion for animals with the duty to protect human life

In an age of far right disinformation, scientist Emma Monk wages war against the prophets of rage