Politics

As a new variant hits, Austrians are once again dealing with the strangeness of life behind closed doors.

Mafia scams involving farming, tobacco, VAT and alcohol are taking billions out of EU funds. The Covid pandemic has opened the floodgates.

Italy’s Mafia is older than the country itself and, despite the cyclical efforts to stamp out its influence, the rise of the Calabrian ’Ndrangheta clan to displace the Sicilian Cosa Nostra underscores its intrinsic place in Italian society.

Comedian MITCH BENN ponders if the prime minister is making plans to open "Borisland" once his time at No.10 is done.

One reader questions what Boris Johnson is scared of, after he purged his party of all those who dared to question him.

The new Commission for UK-EU Relations will propose solutions to problems caused by Britain’s botched exit.

As subsidies are cut and pigs are culled, it's unlikely farmers are part of the 18% who believe Brexit is going well.

With his decisive shadow cabinet reshuffle, Keir Starmer may have reached his Clark Kent moment.

Olaf Scholz's in-tray is bulging, and Germany is braced for change. But can a cautious chancellor deliver it?

Businesspeople, academics, journalists and a top trade unionist have formed a group with the purpose of repairing fractured UK-EU relations.

History is home to various Black Fridays. In 1910, one such day had nothing to do with bargains, and everything to do with cost.

In the wake of the tragedy in the Channel, media commentator LIZ GERARD’s searing essay exposes how newspapers demonised refugees - and encouraged ministers to follow them.

Umberto Bombana secured the product known locally as Truffle of the White Madonna.

One reader finds the notion that Priti Patel isn't right-wing enough bizarre and troubling.

Over the weekend, bicycles were burnt and rocks were thrown in protest against increasing Covid restrictions.

Despite it all, the prime minister is still seen as a winner, one Tory MP tells ALASTAIR CAMPBELL. But, here's how the opposition can change that.

Britney may finally be free – even to marry Sam Asghari – sadly, the same can't be said of the UK.

BONNIE GREER shares her admiration for the next in line to the throne, and how she, to her dismay, was born two days after him.

Comedian MITCH BENN lists his ideas of what the Labour leader could do to increase his standing in the polls.

Bizarre events followed our publication of the “buyer’s remorse” story last week. Editor-in-chief MATT KELLY brings you up to speed.

It was rumoured the former Daily Mail editor may be the next boss of Ofcom, but perhaps he's destined for a more high-profile role.

The people of the Chagos Islands were promised British citizenship when the UK leased its only remaining African colony to the USA. But a loophole now means hundreds are caught in limbo, living undocumented in Britain and unable to work or access social services.

She is one of the most maligned and mocked politicians of our age. But the pioneering MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington has a record worthy of greater respect.

Our columnist looks at “only in Berlin” syndrome and at how the country’s capital fails its democracy.

Scottish independence is neither inevitable nor a dead duck, but the urge behind it is immutable and needs to be addressed.

The Balkan nation has emerged as an unlikely global centre of high- tech industry – and of hacking.

Scholz doesn't do charisma. True to form, he delivered his address seriously and without needless bumbling or theatrics.

Christmas is coming and people are wondering if the PM’s goose, instead of getting fat, may be getting cooked. What else could possibly go wrong?

Boris Johnson's blunders since Brexit makes for quite the list, does the public now have buyer's remorse?

Finally – a Visa-free aspect to Brexit. At least that’s what the deluded Dominic Raab is likely to tell you...