Politics

Charlie Kirk's politics were not my own. But the least he and America deserve, on this blood-stained morning, is a moment of civility

He went on stage at Reform’s conference and spouted delusional nonsense. But for the hard-right party, being anti-vaxx is considered a badge of honour

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No 10 talks about asylum seekers, hotels and flags, but the bread-and-butter issues are called that for a reason

Too many progressives have forgotten the importance of free speech. It’s time to speak up

Today, the west sees Putin as a bloodthirsty dictator hellbent on destroying peace democracy in Europe. 25 years ago, the picture was very different

Philosophers have long debated the concept of immortality but now Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are concerned too

According to Fifa, £7.22bn in men’s football alone has been spent in transfer fees, a jump of more than 50% compared with the same period in 2024

The PM needs to remove the blockages that are preventing policy from becoming reality. If he doesn’t, the result could be Reform, and disaster

Panama, undeserving of its media silence, is still humming with creatures great and small

South Africa is very comfortable with chaos, especially on the roads

The president is hoping to win voters over for the country's mid-term elections with the same spending cuts that plunged public sector workers into poverty

There’s only one person to blame for this cycle of collapsing governments

Where is the line and how do you know when someone has crossed it?

Farage is getting ready for power, but his party is becoming much more politically extreme than he is. If he gets the chance, will he give them what they want?

Young people have tried voting – a lot of them have concluded that it didn’t work

Artificial intelligence is intersecting with the graduate job market to reduce the opportunities on offer

Farage’s political gameplan has one key weakness that Starmer needs to exploit ruthlessly

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