Politics

Tory MPs know, deep down, the prime minister is finished, and not a moment too soon

His review of Legally Blonde made it clear he wasn’t pleased about the casting of “fuller-bodied, nonbinary actors”

When it comes to gossiping about Carrie Johnson, Cummings isn't tight-lipped

There is an ongoing inquiry into the running of The Aspinall Foundation, who Carrie works for when she's not organising “strategy meetings” in Downing Street

The prime minister is the Richard II of modern politics - and he must learn the bitter lessons of the 14th-century monarch

How will the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda help a single UK family struggling in the cost of living crisis?

Jeton Neziraj’s new play explores the lesser-known side of Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke

As Andy Burnham has been recently saying, UBI is a nettle that Labour should grasp, suggests one reader

There are unmistakable echoes of the Watergate president in Boris Johnson’s Partygate defence

In a climate change landmark case, a quiet Peruvian mountain guide and farmer is taking on a German company over its role in melting the Palcaraju glacier

Emissions and temperatures continue to rise, leading to increasingly radical research into limiting climate change. But are they safe?

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