Politics

Bulgarians are tired of being treated as second-class citizens by the EU

Reading is not the preferred choice of recreation for France’s youth

I am looking forward to the Tories’ demise at the next general election, but it is our entire political system that must radically change, and for good

Today, the man who fled the Spanish civil war for Cleckheaton would’ve been deemed part of an ‘invasion’

Have Boris Johnson’s hopes and promises come true in the four years since we left the EU?

In every election since 2010, fear has beaten hope but change is on the horizon

Olaf Scholz is helping the AfD blend in when they need to be singled out

The House of Lords, where real monarchy lies, must be abolished

Despite facing 91 felony charges, Trump is going to be the Republican presidential nominee. He is a dictator-in-waiting

The Tories treat being poor as a fact of life for many. Labour can’t do the same

The Florida governor’s big ideas included a map of human faeces as he burned his way through $150m

The former prime minister’s return to frontline politics hasn’t gone quite as he expected

Rishi Sunak has little incentive to fix the NHS’s problems

Power is not given – it must be taken

We investigated 274 suspects - and secured only one conviction

This government has run down the armed forces like no other

The government is failing at everything apart from record levels of gaslighting

Why else back a prime minister who trails in the last eight polls by an average of 19 points?

Until our broken electoral system is fixed, we need to play Westminster at its own game

Bringing an end to the Tories' real-life psychodrama could finally give satirists something to work with

A former top civil servant in the government’s digital unit: “It’s not a question of whether there will be another Horizon. It’s when”

The election campaign has begun in earnest and it is not going to be pretty

The Brexit benefits the government promised continue to be elusive

Where is the “integrity and accountability” the prime minister promised?

If the UK wants to remain a top-tier military power, we need to pay the price

Low-quality AIs are already serving up fake information to searchers. If this grey goo multiplies, we’re in trouble

Populists are set to triumph in June’s EU elections, fuelled by fears over immigration, inflation and insecurity. How bad could it get?

The Tories have denied responsibility for every scandal and disaster that has blighted their calamitous 14 years in power. So whose fault is it, exactly?

A new report shows red wall areas suffering more from Brexit than London does – and it will get worse

We have a media that seems to shield the government from accountability while at the same time attacking those seeking to scrutinise it

The creator of the first totalitarian state died on January 24, 1924. His body was viewed by the faithful in temperatures of -35C