Politics

The world watched Paris’s greatest treasure burn. Two years on, restoration is beginning in earnest

No Single Market access and a struggle to develop EV batteries mean an uncertain future for the once-great British car industry

The government are too afraid to challenge adults’ belief systems. This is pure cruelty

Germany’s latest general elections brought about hyper-expansive change to parliament... literally

Swallows can't exactly reflect on their actions. We, however, can think about if we're actually acting virtuously or not

The Queen has managed a balancing act for 70 years and the Platinum Jubilee is yet another milestone in it

Former French ambassador to London Sylvie Bermann on Brexit’s aftershocks and the battles still to come with Macron and the EU

The prime minister wasn't born a fascist. But his incompetence and desperation to survive is certainly driving him in that direction

Comedian MITCH BENN on the songs that could've accompanied the ‘Abba-themed’ party at Downing Street

Instead, the conservative government’s panicked U-turn on the windfall tax does the opposite

Hancock’s somewhat modest outside earnings haven't stopped him enjoying life with the woman he found it so difficult to socially distance from during lockdown

These days reviewers are rarely journalists but individuals with axes to grind

The old Etonian has been left unscathed by the cost-of-living crisis

The levelling up minister may have, finally, come out in support of the prime minister, but he’s also just accepted his first donation since 2021

Back in 2019, a source told MANDRAKE that the prime minister started work late, looked dishevelled and treated the Downing Street flat like “student digs”

The latest poll shows the prime minister would lose his won seat at the next election

Melvyn Bragg’s autobiography is an affectionate homage to his formative years. But he’s got plenty to say about the culture secretary too

The government is pushing the idea that energy security means more North Sea oil and gas. It’s a myth

Remote locking has thwarted the Russians in Ukraine but the technology has more dystopian possibilities

If we harness the productive power of new technology and increase people’s skills across the board our relationship with work could be very different

Norway’s humane approach to rehabilitating prisoners is at odds with many Europe nations. And it is a remarkable success

Heading to Europe for your first post-pandemic summer holiday? Thanks to Brexit, your sun, sea and sand now come with added queues, forms and red tape

War has broken out among Germany's self-appointed intellectual literary elite

Boris, Brexit , Trump, Putin and all the populism of the last decade are based on Vranyos - a lie that everyone knows is a lie

Kaliningrad encapsulates Russia’s psychosis – from glory days to aggrieved isolation. It is also perilously close to Nato’s weakest link

As Currygate follows Partygate, Europeans following events in the UK are doing so with a mixture of bemusement and incredulity

The government has the chance to show the world the days of London being Russian oligarchs' playground are over, but that would involve action by Boris Johnson

We need to call White Supremacy out now in all of its guises. Even when it appears as “free speech”

As Sue Gray reports, speculation is mounting as to which and how many necks Boris Johnson will offer to the block in order to save his own

The war in Ukraine is seeing the reputations of Olaf Scholz's two immediate predecessors reassessed, and not for the better