Politics

Prime minister Farage? The danger has receded… for the moment. 

CEO Alex Karp said the quiet part out loud in an interview. Yet his company is still embedded in our NHS and defence

A new deal with the EU has roused the ERG from its slumber to defend the nation against a vicious attack on our Pot Noodles and Bacon Fries

New revelations about the disgraced peer’s chutzpah - and his payoff demands - again call into question the prime minister’s judgement

A decade after Leavers celebrated a key referendum result, the city’s Nissan car plant is in danger again

If we look six months into the future, the consequences of this conflict for Iran, the region and for the world all look bad – there is no good outcome from this war

A royal commission on the effects of leaving the EU would reboot Starmer’s reset and steal a march on the Greens

If your priorities in life are heat and paying no tax, and if you choose to ignore harsh, dubious rules, especially for women, then don’t be surprised if most of us back in the old country regard you as a soulless, smug twat

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MAGA has made the land of the free more of a global danger than a repressive surveillance state that spies, steals and kills

The Tory party gathered for its spring conference this weekend – the party is now so extreme that it is on the verge of becoming sinister

Their mud-slinging over Iran shows that Farage, Badenoch and the Mail prefer to side with US extremists than back their own country

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

The president’s attack on Iran is about building an American dynasty – and stuffing his family’s coffers yet further

The right wing hack and partner of Reform’s Richard Tice welcomes us into her magnificent wartorn penthouse (note to lawyers: this is satire)

The takeover came with talk of protecting editorial independence – but Axel Springer’s CEO doesn’t do hands-off

Sir Keir has the chance to win hearts and minds on the back of public rebukes from two men loathed by the public. Will he take it?

We must be able to challenge the lack of research and funding into women’s reproductive healthcare without the risk of access being curtailed altogether

It is hard to imagine a more unsuitable, callous and dunder-headed person to lead the US into war. He is a misogynist, frat-boy, booze-swilling fantasist. One day his favourite slogan, FAFO, might well come back to bite him

Politically they couldn’t be more different. But between them, these two politicians, one GOP, one Green, tell a story about how to confront populism

The US secretary of war insulted the American dead, attacked the press and released one of the most stupid pieces of propaganda ever made. 

After decades of persecution and murder in the streets, chaos and danger are being embraced

Trump may not have a plan, but the Iranians do. And Americans aren’t going to like it

Starmer, it seems, just doesn’t want to deal with the question of our relationship with the EU – or at least, not in public. That now has to change

Prediction markets are a way of betting on the future. But have members of the Trump administration been using them to profit from secret military knowledge?

It's legalistic, complicated and barely comprehensible but the PM's position on this war has ended up in tune with public sentiment

Even his MAGA base thinks it’s madness. But amongst the outrage, there are still some Americans who cling to magical thinking, and to the idea that it’ll all work out fine

They are the only political force that can keep the extreme right wingers out of power in France. And so, of course, they have just fallen out

Somewhere along the line, the American right became detached from the importance of “truth”, and we all know whose fault that is. But how did it happen?

Morgan Jones’s new book unpicks the chaos of the campaign for a second referendum

A recent report by a consultancy imagined a global economic crisis caused by artificial intelligence. The trouble is, they might just be on to something

The Minnesota bloodbath was all his idea. For now, he’s safely in the White House – but one day he could make a very useful scapegoat