Politics

We are all paying the economic cost of his appalling misrule

BBC Question Time is marking seven years of Brexit with an audience made up entirely of 2016 Leave voters. Wish me luck...

The banks pay huge amounts of tax. If they lose business, then Britain’s economy will suffer

Write the former president off at your peril – he epitomises the American dream and knows what makes us tick

With hundreds on urgent waiting lists, Britain’s health care system is failing elderly people

Ivor Prickett’s photographs capture not just the horror of conflict but also the tender moments, the tedium and the weary suffering

In Serbia, pessimism and journalism go hand in hand

The UK used to be the obvious point of entry for art and antiquities coming into Europe. But then we ostracised ourselves

Rishi Sunak allowed a man found guilty of misleading parliament to hand out honours to useless carcicatures, bullies and lockdown lawbreakers

The phrase “once in a lifetime” is thrown around a lot. But this artistic experience lives up to the hype

The impact would be behavioural and social as well as financial. But we won’t know until we try it

The disgraced former PM has crawled away to lick his wounds, but he’ll already be plotting ways to inveigle his way back into the public eye...

Too many books about the countryside are over-written and nostalgic. But Rebecca Smith’s brilliant new memoir gets it just right

West won’t succeed. But his failure could push the US towards fascism

Boris Johnson was a winner but he won on falsehoods, and the truth caught up with him at last. Nothing is left but cold, hard anger

The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

Sunak was too weak and slow to do anything about Johnson’s dirty honours. The upcoming byelections will make things worse

Silvio Berlusconi was a tax evader, a sleazebag, an enabler of tyrants and mafiosi – and he was adored by half a country

Ukrainian Railways has refused to be shunted aside by Russian aggression, continuing to evacuate people and get them home again, both safely and on time

The overwhelming majority of Brits think a close relationship with the EU is important. Why does the government seem to disagree?

Was it part of a deal with Sunak?

Some Europhobes seem to think Europe’s economic problems vindicate Brexit. They’re wrong – again

Independence for the Bank is not great, but it is better than the alternative

The question is no longer whether Putin can win, but how many more people will die before he loses

His reluctance to turn over evidence to the Covid inquiry, and much else, shows a PM concerned with saving his legacy, not the UK

Cleo Watson’s debut novel, Whips, is the latest in a long line of raunchy romps set in the world’s least erotic place – Westminster

Trump faces a crowded field of Republican rivals. He'll obliterate them all

Labour has put economic growth at the heart of their electoral campaign, but they will not succeed until they resolve the damage Brexit continues to inflict

If the government's cunning plan fails, here are some more ways to deceive the Covid inquiry

Tory faction-fighting is distracting us from limiting the impact of the next pandemic

Labour understands what economic measures need to be taken. But, knowing how to achieve them is a whole different ball game