Politics

Trump has made a career out of redesigning reality to suit him

Brexit is more than enough for any political generation. But, the worst is yet to come

More than a quarter support a fresh vote as soon as the end of this year

A botched character assassination could be a source of embarrassment to the Conservatives and their friends in the media

Some say the US is in a superpower death spiral like the one that hit post-empire Britain. The signs of decline are there – but so are some green shoots

A stopgap solution without a peace treaty will only create conditions for future conflict

Waiting lists, immigration, the economy… with this lot, it is always someone else's fault

But, there are ways to recoup the huge cost to taxpayers

The Tories are losing their loyalists and they’re running straight into Labour’s arms

The ‘brightest and best’ have failed to arrive. What could have put them off?

The government wants to give the impression that it has thought up a policy – but it hasn’t. Not really

Industry hit with a blow as government halts trial of a system designed to limit paperwork

Tory MP Tobias Ellwood says both his party and Labour are being dishonest over the disaster of Brexit

Rishi Sunak sees threatening to leave the European Convention on Human Rights as an opportunity to replay the old tunes. It is a mistake

The Bibby Stockholm is branded an empty gesture to fix a crisis of the government’s own making

Think tank says Britain faces recession next year and five more years of stagflation

Handshakes alone won't cut it in a world where major security threats, from war to cybersecurity, are global

If Brexit was going well, we would never hear the end of it. Instead, there's an omertà on the subject

With their Rwanda project in doubt, the Tories went for Plan B. Now they need a Plan C

The Conservative deputy chair has denied ever criticising MPs' second jobs, despite the evidence being there for all to see

The UK's determination to lock people up has already created an overflowing prison system. The prime minister's plans will only make matters worse

An anonymous GP shares how best to deal with the end of life and why this evades Westminster's understanding

Some 66% of party members think there isn’t a climate emergency at all

On oil and gas, product standards and trade talks, Britain is wrecking its diplomatic reputation

While the prime minister lauds Britain's farmers, the industry struggles to cope with a Brexit triple whammy of his government's own making

The news comes the same week as the government’s U-turn over its stance on CE marks

Rishi Sunak says he wants to protect the price of your pint - but membership in the EU didn’t stop him

The museum that masks Erdoğan’s contempt for Turkey’s artists

The Tories look exhausted. But Labour seems out of ideas, too. Are we headed for the most depressing election campaign ever?

Instead, we have dumbed-down political and commercial interests masquerading as purveyors of news, lurching from one spasm to another

We stand badly in need of the spirit of Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos but modern populism recoils from intense strategic inquiries and policy formulation