Politics

As the West enters a period where any weakness will be weaponised, Britain needs innovation now more than ever

An intensive care consultant retraces the NHS’s painful journey through Covid – and explains why he is more worried than the Johnson government about what may lie ahead

An angry annual conference of the farmers’ union has revealed the depth to which a sector that voted for Brexit and the Tories feels sold out

To join Gavin Williamson, who else is deserving of a knighthood? Here are some more ennoblements we should expect to see coming down the red carpet soon...

During the Brexit debate, the very idea was enough to make Leavers foam at the mouth. Now, the case for a joint European military looks very different

DR ROBERT KRAMER, professor of psychoanalysis at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, explains the drive for immortality that brought war to Ukraine

Already in financial crisis, Turkey is heavily dependent on Russia for fuel, food and tourism money. Is this a tipping point for its president?

The US president's State of the Union address was a bravura performance of ordinariness and common sense

A disjointed Conservative party would create future opportunity to rejoin the EU, says one reader

The same day Putin's invasion began, Karneval was due to start, and it did. But, it soon changed into Germany's largest demonstration for Ukraine so far

Lifting restrictions early may have given Boris Johnson a break from Partygate, but the decision clouds come back to haunt him

Stung by their 2019 election campaign but keen to shore up their pro-EU convictions, the party will this weekend vote on a detailed roadmap back

Absolute power makes you think you can do what you like, where you like, how you like. It is a power no truly democratic leader will ever enjoy

Johnson won't get his Churchillian moment from this crisis, nor will he get the chance to return to his mister good times act afterwards

Boris Johnson’s claims of generous support to Ukrainian refugees are easily refuted by the figures: 50 visas granted vs nearly 1 million people taken in by Poland

We are all Ukrainians... for now. But as fuel costs rise and a drawn-out war looms, how long will the West’s resolve last?

Cal Flyn's win as The Sunday Times Young Writer of the year may have been helped by the fact that Flyn worked for the paper for five years and that her two books are published by HarperCollins - also owned by Rupert Murdoch

One thinks he's a player, while the other neglects to mention him in their Ukraine coverage

The war in Ukraine has pushed #Partygate off the front pages but Boris Johnson’s attempts to reinvent himself as a trustworthy statesman are still overshadowed by past misdemeanours, with the police yet to report on whether he broke lockdown rules

Nicholas Kenton's appointment as the Daily Telegraph's opera critic surprised MANDRAKE. Mostly as Kenton used to serve on the board of the English National Opera

A recent biography demonstrates how the former Ukip leader doesn't believe anything beyond the fact that Nigel Farage should get a lot of attention

Gina Miller’s QC anticipated that fans of her and her court cases against the government would approve of the production of Bloody Difficult Women, and that those who didn't, would not

Neil may have stepped down as its public face, but he still holds 62,458 shares in the company

The editor-in-chief of Ukrainian news platform 24tv.ua left Kyiv two days before Russia invaded on a scheduled holiday. On February 24, she was woken at 6am by calls from her friends telling her war had started. She is now safe in Lithuania but in regular contact with friends and colleagues in Ukraine’s capital

As Putin’s invasion of Ukraine reached its first week, it was announced that Gavin Williamson has received a knighthood. The government have shown Britain to be a country where you can be a jack of all trades, master of failing up

The tear-filled voice of a Ukrainian interpreter translating Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech has shone a spotlight on the skilled linguists who bring the words of world leaders to us in real-time

The crisis offers an opportunity for the UK and EU countries to realise that all people fleeing war and oppression are “like us”. It’s one that is unlikely to be seized

While some in sport suck up to Vladimir Putin, others are reacting correctly to the threat of the obliteration of life on our continent

The Kremlin strongman is now an isolated, out-of-touch world pariah and increasingly unpopular at home. Could he be toppled?

Two 1990s films made by a future Putin ally explain the national obsession with humiliation that led to Ukraine

If we don't stop with sanctions and retool our economy, we will be even more complicit in the next atrocity we enable