Politics

We’ve supposedly built a better system, yet are there still collapses

The country has its first female leader and the highest number of women working in law in Europe. Has Italy changed?

Charles Mason on how a post-Brexit duties demand has battered his family's historic lace firm

The Guardian and the Church of England have confronted their historical links to the slave trade – but what about the monarchy?

The country’s longstanding neutrality faces scrutiny as far-right MPs walk out on Volodymyr Zelensky’s address

Charles III dazzles in his first official trip to Germany, impressing with his language skills and sense of humour

Republicans are hailing the former president a martyr, but Donald Trump must not win again. He is a demagogue and potential dictator

It is arguably Britain’s most influential paper – which makes its long and ongoing history of vilifying refugees and asylum seekers even more troubling

Photographer Colin Jones’s controversial series of images captured the grim reality of 1970s London for young black people.

The positive case for rejoining the EU needs to be broadcast repeatedly alongside the stark and chronic impacts of Brexit on every UK citizen

After a cynical move by the government, 3 million Brits could miss out on voting in May’s elections because they don’t have photo ID

The sheer chutzpah of the 50-day PM traversing the globe to dispense her unique wisdom to those fortunate (and rich) enough to receive it would be almost admirable, were she not serving up such lamentable, disprovable tosh

The Retained EU Law Bill would scrap over 4,000 pieces of legislation

The Tories are playing to an audience of voters who despise refugees

Conservative MPs seem to have finally twigged that their gravy train is about to hit the buffers. So what else could they turn their hands to?

The new IMF forecasts contain little for Brexiteers to be cheerful about

The Conservatives exist only in order to win elections – they will soon twig that one path to doing that involves dumping Brexit

Burnley’s triumphant return to the Premier League has been masterminded by the son of a refugee who became Belgium’s first elected black mayor

The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

One of TNE’s co-owners, he was a tireless campaigner

Raising the spectre of ‘war’ against Covid promoted irrational panic

Grandbrothers’ new release Late Reflections matches the landmark’s emotional heft

Forty-three years after the Bologna station bombing killed 85 people, including a young couple from Bristol, a far-right militant was finally jailed for his part in it

Two-thirds of Argentinians are descended from the old country.. and the two nations share some of the same problems

A campaign group in Spain is seeking better legal protection for women who experience harassment while breastfeeding in public. Will the rest of Europe follow?

Ada Colau is the city’s mayor and she would prefer you to stay away

Despite voting Remain, the Rock is now outside the EU – and it has “no deal”. Might Spain be about to “take back control”?

Over 200 years on, Britain may be about to reverse Lord Elgin’s act of chicanery and vandalism

Moscow likes to pretend that HIV is not a problem. Now it has an epidemic on its hands

Lack of rain and extreme summer heat are causing a dramatic decline in olive oil production in Italy. Consumers and producers alike are worried

Is the drug that fuelled sixties counterculture due for a comeback?