Politics

The latest gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

The glowing headlines of less than a week ago seem considerably further away for the prime minister

The country’s capital, Lisbon, is buckling under the weight of visitors, including a new generation of ‘desirable’ migrants

Why the crazy 15-minute city conspiracy theory is no laughing matter

The government would do well to avoid exacerbating the current crises and heed this advice

We all know what he’s up to

Why tranquil indifference is not the answer to the world's problems

How the frequency and reliability of mail delivery varies across the continent

The country is divided over the ‘iron chancellor’, feminist foreign policy and Putin’s ‘manifesto for peace’

A notorious mafia killer is now behind bars – but why did it take so long to catch him?

Mark Zuckerberg has already spent $20bn on his new virtual reality project, and it’s boring, empty and clunky

The UK government’s figures are pure fiction, designed to frighten us off seeking independence

The UK was at the forefront of developing nuclear energy. How then did it fall so far behind France? And is it ripe for a comeback?

Some say that had the 39th president died in 1982, for example, he would have been forgotten, written off as a failure. Now he has a legacy

Your favourites unite for Brexit Avengers: Infinite Culture Wars! Coming soon, whether you like it or not...

Now the rest of Britain will ask, ‘if it’s so great, why aren't we in it too?’

The ex-‘Brexit hard man’ hopes his mental struggles are now over, yet millions continue to suffer because of policies he espoused

Marie Antoinette was probably deeply upset by her fate. The environment secretary, however, appears unbothered by the current state of affairs

Keir Starmer’s target is laudable, but it requires a political sea change

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The EU is watching what comes next with hope… and some scepticism

In east Belgium, a committed group of democrats are experimenting with sortition – government chosen by lottery

Challenger Peter Obi promises a fresh start for the crisis-hit country

It could be the key to a greener future - but substantial concerns remain

On the frontier between Italy and France, the desperate brave the passage of death

The race to remove European laws from the British statute book is happening for the worst of reasons

Xi and Putin thought they could shatter the post-1945 world. They were wrong

The former prime minister shows he is only interested in himself, not Northern Ireland

The exiled reporter who turned soldier to fight against Putin’s invaders

Pulling Britain out of the ECHR to appease his party’s hardliners would be a disaster

As the death toll continues to mount, could a pliant media help Erdoğan escape a tsunami of public outrage?