Politics

Chess has long been a hotbed of gamesmanship. But a new cheating dispute threatens to take the game to new lows

An arch-Brexiter apologises to Ireland and the EU. What is going on?

The tottering Truss regime is facing a new rebellion over planned cuts to public spending - but they are inevitable to pay for its lower tax plans

It's all-change at the Times as Tony Gallagher receives a promotion

Despite having similar backgrounds of Oxbridge and early Conservative activism, the pair have never gotten along

Tory MPs are finally beginning to question whether they are in a toxic relationship with Paul Dacre's newspaper

The meetings held by the outgoing PM's communications chief in the dying days of his government sound suspiciously like he was hunting out employment opportunities

Liz Truss has made the worst start of any prime minister, revealing herself as a tinpot, tin-eared Margaret Thatcher impersonator

A recent visit to Algeria was part of efforts to write a new chapter in diplomacy - but the ghosts of France's exploitative colonial past linger on

PM wants to bring in more low-wage foreign workers, but faces Cabinet opposition and questions over whether her plan will boost the economy

Brexit is a disaster. But, it may be a very long time before the EU is willing to take another chance on the UK, writes one reader

The comic actor said he’d never join a club that would admit him. Will Liz Truss apply the same rule to Macron’s new European forum?

All eyes are on Robert Habeck. Unfortunately, his energy crisis polices are only snatching the surface of Germany's problems

The city of light has – finally – stopped taking its historic trees for granted and is devising ways of preserving them

We may be living a dog's life. But, when left uncared for street dogs are far from docile. The government needs to watch out

A European round up of how the chancellor's economic policies were viewed across the continent

Why the most celebrated painter of all time is a criminal’s dream come true

The mini-budget is one of the worst pieces of economic policy-making in history. Meet its fans

What better way to fund the ailing NHS than open it up to commercial sponsorship? Comedian MITCH BENN suggests some policies we should be glad the chancellor left out of his mini budget

We need to tell Putin that if he uses nukes, the West will destroy Russia's military in Ukraine

Kwasi Kwarteng's budget is so economically unsound that it makes you wonder if Liz Truss is secretly working for the Bring Back Boris campaign

Kwasi Kwarteng's mini budget has environmentalists seeing red as the Truss government alienates yet another sector

Michael Winterbottom's telling of Boris Johnson's pandemic begs the question: when is the general public ready to consume recent real-life events on screen?

Keir Starmer and allies fear Tory ‘scorched earth’ diplomacy will leave them with a mountain to climb if they take power

The new Italian PM’s policies are a mess of contradictions and she will struggle against the country’s liberal instincts and independent institutions

Italy’s new prime minister may turn to the centre right for support in a war against ‘woke culture’

The schoolboy errors in Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget have put the UK economy at risk and dealt the PM a self-inflicted blow from which she may not recover

If she is soon to be rewarded with a seat in the House of Lords, now may not be the time for people to go trawling through what she's been saying over the years

Only a few months ago, The Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday were protesting against the “fat cat” bosses of water and energy companies. Now they've changed their tune

The former chancellor hasn't given up his dream of becoming PM as the country heads into economic turbulence