Politics

A Croatian rock singer is using Nazi salutes to gee up his crowd. Even worse, the prime minister is apparently a fan

Legislation or an unexpected saviour could help – but the tech giants will try to crush them

A president without decency or any interest in policy runs America like a TV show: gripping its audience with shocks, suspense and relentless action

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Westminster journalists are having a tantrum over No 10 briefings. But the real problems are their right wing bias and focus on gossip over policy

Keir Starmer wants Britain to get closer to the EU. The war in Ukraine and Trump’s military posturing put European security at the heart of that realignment

The nation has changed out of all recognition since the Shah was deposed in 1979. There is now only one way that the country can enter the modern world – the state must crack

The government’s business rates u-turn has brought temporary relief, but long-term trends suggest thousands more locals - especially in rural areas - will go

The uncertainty of the plague years are back in the form of the US president, and we are left wondering who wants to help us

Farage and Badenoch’s attacks on a weakened PM underline that he’s not the messenger to deliver a customs union or even a second referendum

Online trolls who claimed the French president’s wife was secretly a man, have been convicted in a Paris court. Does that mean misgendering someone – including trans people – now means jail time?

The shooting dead of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis is the fault of Trump, Noem, and the bullshit conspiratorial ecosystem they’ve built around themselves

Former Brussels foreign minister Cathy Ashton says the union would be ‘insane’ to take back the UK without consensus that we wouldn’t leave again

In 1968, a US bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashed in Greenland. That time the bombs didn’t detonate and there was no catastrophe. But the nation now faces a new US threat and the outcome could be much worse

I'm an admirer of John Stuart Mill, David Hume and Diogenes the Cynic. The problem is, I cannot endorse any one of them without reservation

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The president of Moldova saw off a vicious campaign from Russia by educating the public about the threat and mobilising them against it. Would we do the same here?

The social contract must be revitalised or populists will replace it with something much worse. That means citizenship should involve allegiance to a shared way of life

Some Germans revel in a state of emergency during the new year’s celebrations. Should their lawlessness restrict responsible fireworks enthusiasts’ fun?

The current system attracts incompetent chancers. The answer is a Westminster that’s smaller and better rewarded

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

Living so close to a huge unfriendly neighbour has made our politics intense – but it has also done the same for our music culture

When it’s freezing and dark, there’s only one thing Icelanders want to do – take all their clothes off and jump in an outdoor pool

Elephants have been trampling and eating crops planted by Kenyan farmers, and gamekeepers have been looking for a solution. Then someone noticed that elephants don’t like bees

The challenge for my country is to get rid of the networks of patronage and power that are all controlled by the old. We need to become a country of the young

MAGA’s youth wing gathered for a weekend-long event in Arizona. Proceedings were overshadowed by arguments over a notorious neo-Nazi

Grok is churning out sexual images on an industrial scale – some of teenage girls – and pleading free speech. If the UK and Europe don’t act now, they never will

Trump’s raid on Caracas gives the US control of Venezuelan oil, and shows that America is now a nation that acts without restraint. The lessons for Britain, and Europe, could not be any clearer

Maduro was a foul dictator. But what happens next could be as bad - or worse

Putin and Trump want to destroy liberal democracy. Only Europe now stands in their way. Can the continent hold out against the twin threats from east and west?

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Zohran Mamdani didn’t just win an election – his and Rama Duwaji’s story mirrors the city they now represent