Politics

Tim Walker wanted to win over the political professionals with his debut play, and now he has

Were Putin to remain intransigent and the current negotiations turn out to be just an elaborate ruse, then the UN should reserve the right to shift to more of a peace enforcing role

Just why is the newspaper so keen to ensure that the former speaker is never elevated to the House of Lords?

The celebration dreamed up by Theresa May has cost a scandalous £120m of public money

The former prime minister is finding speaking engagements thin on the ground

The prime minister would do well to remember how Gove sold him down the river in 2016

Comedian MITCH BENN shares some other events that are, when you think about it, also just like Brexit...

U-turns and new schemes are welcome, but Britain still isn’t welcoming to those fleeing conflict

The vicious conflict in Ukraine could lead to even more deaths from hunger far beyond the country’s borders as grain exports from the region grind to a halt and global food prices soar

If Hobbes is right, perhaps the only way to maintain peace is to have a powerful world organisation that can enforce international laws and punish states that break them

And, the West cannot risk letting the Russian dictator playing it

Public schools produced the prime minister and 64% of his shoddy cabinet. Finland, where all education is free, shames our system. It’s time for a change

Xi Jinping once called Vladimir Putin his best friend. But is their relationship cooling as he realises how much his country stands to lose over Ukraine?

The Home Office is in urgent need of fixing, and Priti Patel is not the woman for the task

Too many Russians have fallen for Putin’s propaganda over Ukraine. It won’t stop his regime falling apart – but that could take years

It is now blindingly obvious that the EU must step up and take responsibility for its own collective security, argues one reader

Rishi Sunak must accept that more borrowing and more spending are essential in his spring statement

The only brutal thing about Aldi and Lidl's expansion is the cut-price competition

The Godfather was hailed as a masterpiece from when it first aired 1972. And, it still is today

From politicians unwelcome reception at the Salon de l’Agriculture trade fair to a woman in Berlin claiming she is in a relationship with a model plane - weird news you may have missed form Europe

Michael Heseltine may be 89 this month but his garden shows him planting for the future – much as he is still doing through his politics.

There is joy and relief that the British citizens are finally on their way back from years of detention in Iran. But after Britain reportedly finally paid the debt it has owed Iran for decades, what was it all for?

The paper's grandee Paul Dacre is notorious for his so-called “vagina monologues” directed at individuals who displease him

Comedian MITCH BENN ponders why he seems to be the only commentator who hasn't been bought off by the Kremlin

The observation that military force has become less important in how nations wield power was more credible pre-invasion

Former Today editor Sarah Sands still wants to go into business with the Tory party's co-chair

The Daily Telegraph ignores a book which challenges everything it has peddled about Brexit

The Daily Telegraph has quietly removed all trace of its Russian propaganda supplement from its website

After getting the green light to merge the Times and Sunday Times, Murdoch has virtually sacked all of their directors, including his daughter

Boris Johnson declared the UK is leading the way in its willingness to help refugees. Imagining then what Downing Street views as unwilling is incomprehensible

All the while, the UK is still wallowing in its misguided lesson that countries are stronger when they stand alone