Politics

Only Keir Starmer or Rishi Sunak can be PM after the next election. If you want to see the back of the Conservatives you need to vote Labour

Severe weather events show that our house is on fire. Yet we continue to dither over a plan to save the planet

The owner of Twitter has taken one of the world’s most instantly recognisable brand names and replaced it with something utterly meaningless

If Labour stay on their current course, the debate stays focused on the government’s deficiencies, and the polls continue to move towards Rejoin

Music isn’t something the French have ever truly excelled at. But, I’m slowly being won over

No one in Kyiv wants to fight this war. But the monster next door has to be fought

Whether he is the “Goat” or not, he has a unique brand of authenticity, happy to deviate from the expected behaviour of a global tennis star

Italians are breaking with the past and switching on air conditioning. That alone is a sign that environmental change is underway

I yearn for the days when the news took a proper summer break and non-news would entertain us

The city is celebrating its past and future on Saint Christopher’s day

The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

Another £40billion per year is needed to keep up with what others spend

Tiptoeing around the issue won't do the Rejoin movement any favours

Sunak's fantasy economics ignore the fact that we need a more skilled workforce and capping arts degree numbers won't solve this

The government are only paying lip service to environmentalism - now a vote could be fatal

The Spanish prime minister’s troubles are far from over, however, as a complicated process of backroom deals and coalition building begins

With the Conservatives weaker than ever, giving 16-year-olds the vote could finish them off. Labour should listen

The impact of climate change is felt unevenly across the globe. Any proposal tackling the issue must consider this

The Conservatives held onto Boris Johnson’s former seat by just 495 votes. That doesn’t mean the constituency can be a yardstick for the next general election result

Some sectors are allowed to bring people in from overseas. But if it’s good for one, why not let them all do it?

Many questions are being asked ahead of Spain's election on Sunday. One of which is: where do former terrorists belong?

And a majority of Britons now identify as ‘European’, says poll for British Foreign Policy Group

When the powerful cluster to protect one of their own, faith in justice suffers. And all we know for sure is that justice has yet to be done

The death of the Czech-French novelist made me wonder if I exiled myself, just to get out of Ronald Reagan’s America

Across Europe, only Turkey has a higher respiratory death rate than the UK, but the government doesn’t appear to care

The author lives on in a Barcelona conference which asks what he would make of the upcoming Spanish election and Franco’s legacy

The QAnon cult is spreading – with deadly consequences. How can we stop it and its successors?

The joys of the great British post-Brexit getaway will start again this weekend. Are you ready for a long wait?

It is not just the electorate that has had enough of Rishi Sunak – the vultures are circling around the prime minister from the right flank of his own party

Alex Phillips believes London isn’t British anymore. Her justification should concern us all

Socrates was poisoned with Hemlock. But did Plato fictionalise the account of his death?