Politics

No 10 has mistaken excellence for elitism. The results could be disastrous

Reconciliation between Turkey and Greece could be simple, despite historic enmities. But who has the political will?

Is a huge financial scandal about to engulf the Vatican?

Brexit has been a car crash. When will we have a leader brave enough to tell the truth about this?

Britain needs strong economic growth. One of the world’s leading economists explains why that’s not going to happen

Europe’s largest landfill site is just outside Belgrade – and it’s a factory of poison gases

Britain will stop on Sunday to honour its war dead. But in a new era, what should we remember, and how should we do it?

Five years after we upset the people of Skegness by describing their town as Brexitland-on-Sea, we handed MARTIN FLETCHER a tin helmet and sent him back to see if their sunlit uplands ever materialised

The populist right is on the rise and it's deeply nostalgic

A guide to how pensions are funded across the continent

Some notable experts, however, question the overall need for reform. It’s a mass experiment

It's hard to find meaning in today's world. Nonetheless, we should embrace it, in all its absurdity

The Qatar World Cup is an uneasy reminder of how the world works. But shouldn’t sport be better?

'Wimbledonisation' helped the City of London become Europe’s financial capital. But leaving the EU has been much less of an advantage

Who will Suella Braverman go after next in her attempt to out-bigot the bigots?

Today's militaries need a completely different skill set in order to secure a future

Nowadays, I tend to steer clear of SW1A 0AA. Perhaps, it's the bad memories, or maybe it's the horrific state of British politics today

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Burns is seen as making the true blue Tory heartland seat look “eminently winnable” for Labour

The former defence and education secretary feels he's never been awarded the rank he deserves

Welcome to Europe’s future, in which Britain holds a referendum in 2041 to rejoin the European Union

We are running out of time to manage the coming upheaval before it becomes deadly. We need to change our thinking

Germany and France have spent decades falling out and making up. But new isolationism in Berlin and decline in Paris make their latest feud serious

The Arctic is no longer frozen, remote or harmonious. This should concern us all

Rejoining the single market would begin to offer some stability to our troubling times

It seems, however, that Musk is set to take a laissez-faire approach to free speech with minimal moderation on the platform

Which countries across the continent have high profile politicians from minorities?

New Labour’s architect says only rebuilding bridges with the EU will solve what Sunak calls Britain’s ‘profound economic challenge’

Germany needs a more diverse group of politicians leading the country. Perhaps, we can learn from you

After all these years (and all those documentaries), no one understands brutalism... especially Nadine Dorries

The self-styled ‘Chief Twit’ is often called one of the world’s most successful men. You wouldn’t know it from his latest purchase