Politics

Emmanuel Macron may have beaten Marine Le Pen in the presidential election, but France has not yet banished fascism

Heidi Hautala, now vice-president of the European parliament, questioned Moscow’s democratic credentials in 2006, causing a storm at home. Now, as Finland prepares to apply for Nato membership, she assesses the security situation in Europe

Why can't politicians be more like Jürgen?

The shadow foreign secretary hasn't entirely abandoned his dream of becoming mayor of London

The disgraced former minister is topping up his income with a lucrative retainer in the world of public relations

A Conservative MP has hailed the "local opportunities" crushing Brexit bureaucracy has brought to her constituency

The Polish military has no shortage of tanks and the last thing they want is Britain's old Challenger 2s, one source tells MANDRAKE

Nadhim Zahawi is practically a pauper compared to Rishi Sunak, who sits on a £750m family fortune

The idea for the story came from Paul Dacre, MANDRAKE believes

On the same day that France rejected Marine Le Pen’s, Slovenians dealt another blow to populism, casting out Trump-admiring PM Janez Janša in favour of former energy executive Robert Golob

The spectre of Marine Le Pen has been banished - at least for now - but there is plenty for the re-elected president to focus on

Jacob Rees-Mogg says we should ignore an EU push for speed limiters in cars - but it has the potential to save more lives than seat belts

Dale Vince is selling his green energy firm Ecotricity to enter the world of politics. He tells MATT WITHERS why (if not necessarily how)

An estimated 40% of the five million people who have fled Ukraine are children — many of whom arrive in neighbouring countries unaccompanied and afraid

The 72-year-old took what she thought was an unwanted jacket from the Paris museum. Her newly acquired coat was actually a work aimed to recreate the garment worn by Picasso

Low investment, poor skills and bad managers leave Britain trailing its business rivals – but what are the chances of fixing these flaws?

Until our monarchy is replaced with a elected and transparent head of state then the UK cannot count itself a modern state

The so-called Nuremberg defence of “I was just following orders” won't protect them, nor should it

In both opposition to war in Russia, and British attitudes to climate change, mass dissent will probably come too late to make any difference

Pope Francis’s credentials as a reformer and the future of the Vatican’s finances are being laid bare as a financial crimes mega-trial unfolds in Rome

The rebranded right wing presidential candidate is not what she pretends

A plummeting economy, food left to rot and red tape trouble are heaping more pressure on Boris Johnson

The UK government has made exporting and importing difficult and costly. Everybody who was not a Brexit fantasist saw it coming

Comedian MITCH BENN sheds light on what an email chain trying to craft the prime minister's statement on Partygate fines may look like

One peer told MANDRAKE that bold claims of standing shoulder-to-shoulder in the fight for freedom of speech never came to fruition

The chancellor's wife has come under fire recently, but what's escaped the public eye is how the firms she's been involved in have gone under leaving behind vast unpaid sums

The Times and The Daily Mail ran two different polls on the issue over the weekend, both showing different findings

Brexit has seen the UK leg of a fabled train journey quietly ditched

Sarah Sands, Akshata Murty’s public relations adviser, has an extraordinary ability to block out bad news

The prime minister is a proven liar and criminal. Of course his party and their rags will continue to support him