Politics

The jury is out on Britain’s scheme to help students study overseas

Keir Starmer must banish the obsolete and the utopian, says the former foreign secretary in a speech to mark the 25th anniversary of New Labour’s triumph

As the government totters, its rabid lapdog is going all-out on attacking Labour

Ukraine's fight is about more than international law and national self-determination, it's about what sort of world we want to live in

War in Ukraine is worsening farming’s Brexit-driven problems.. and now a food supply crisis could follow

Despite his fence-sitting over Ukraine, Hungarian leader and Putin ally Viktor Orbán has been left with few friends

The Conservatives’ ongoing economic incoherence is a poisonous legacy of their Iron Lady obsession

May 9 holds a special place in the lives of ordinary Russians. But their president has turned it into a show of force

We need a prime minister who isn't driven by a competitive spirit and has a desire to work out what is best for the country. We are unlikely to find those characteristics in a sportsperson

There are real fights on free expression being carried out across the world every day. We must not let the more visible, sillier ones crown them out

Olaf Scholz's change of heart came overnight. So fast that the chairman of his own SPD parliamentary group missed it

The reaction to the Depp/Heard trial demonstrates society's primal behaviour

The rich may be well-protected. But for the rest of us, this is going to be a very rough ride

A company is offering the ultimate symbol of wealth - a 52-metre luxury yacht tethered to a 200-metre helium airship

The president’s achievements have been underplayed - and they contain lessons for Labour and the Lib Dems

Here's five ways the Tories could stitch up the next election

My criticisms of the culture secretary have nothing to do with her being a woman, and everything to do with her being hopeless and dangerously out of her depth

The latest payments take his earnings from the Bar to around £6.3m for the period he has been an MP

Experts gathered at last weekend's Byline festival and expressed their frustrations

Downing Street parties have proven the final straw for lifelong Tory voter Tony Blackburn

Labour's deputy leader hasn't wound up the company set up to support her campaign for the role

Rothermere, who pays minimal tax on account of his non-dom status, appears to be fretting about Starmer's pledge to abolish the loophole

Downing Street’s political strategist for the 2019 general election appears to make money out of anything he touches

Illumina and Complete Genomics offered similar deals for a generic sequencing project, but the former was awarded the contract. In 2017, Cameron joined as a consultant with an undisclosed salary

Ukraine should be the final push we need to close the legal loopholes that encourage oligarchs and kleptocrats to hide their assets in the UK

After weeks of criticism over her department’s multiple failures, Priti Patel is brandishing her trademark smirk again after the passage of a series of laws that threaten basic freedoms at home and abroad

Rows with Brussels over the Northern Ireland protocol are holding up UK associate membership of the Horizon Europe funding programme - and now scientists fear Britain could lose some of its brightest minds as well as its place as a global leader

Pack your flags and mark May 8 with a spectacular afternoon of music celebrating our continent

Talk of a Tory wipeout in May 5’s elections is merely a game of low expectations – but they could still prove fatal to Boris Johnson

Marine Le Putin lost, Emmanuel Macron won - France will remain Germany's closest ally in Europe

The Russian people need a new national story of democracy - one which they write themselves