Politics

Putin’s friend and emissary has manipulated Steve Witkoff to the point where the US special ambassador is known as “Dim Philby”. And Ukraine is paying the price

The Daily Mail group backs authoritarian views. The idea that they’re better buyers than an overseas investor is nonsensical

For decades, the reporting of race and ethnicity has been banned unless strictly relevant to the story. All of a sudden that’s changed. Why?

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

A city of tech parks and start-ups, Bidadi is the very image of India's digital rise

It may be Thanksgiving, but as the country emerges from the longest government shutdown in history, life is about to get harder for many Americans

Everyone wants to visit the historic city. But without intervention, Dubrovnik could soon face collapse

Right wing challengers are capitalising on disillusionment with leftist governments and Chile is just the latest to test that sentiment

What does the ousted prime minster’s death sentence mean for Bangladesh’s political future?

The fictionalised version of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s torment in Iran is damning for the state, and for Boris Johnson

It has been the worst 12 months for people like me, who campaign for the rights of disabled people. And politicians just don’t seem to care

The philosopher’s occult vision of artificial intelligence seemed like fringe raving – until it was taken up by tech billionaires and far right thinkers

The man whose report got rid of the BBC’s boss faced MPs yesterday, along with a group of senior BBC executives. Their appearance raised more questions than it answered

The offer being pushed on Kyiv forces huge compromises and restrictions on Ukraine, but nothing on Russia. For that reason alone it is bound to fail

This isn’t journalism, it’s propaganda that reframes tax policy as assault and a democratically elected Labour government as thieves

Darfur governor Minni Minnawi says the UK is complicit in the killings of 27,000 people in el-Fasher by the violent RSF militia

The White Lotus actress is a registered Republican, but that isn’t a reason to troll her – our idea of liberal Hollywood is a myth

As the G20 gathers in South Africa without the US, international deal-making faces another steep climb up the Everest of diplomacy

The chancellor should slash VAT and national insurance, but end the pension triple-lock. But she won’t dare

The home secretary says we need to get tough on immigrants, but only a few years ago, she thought the complete opposite – so which is it?

When it comes to Russian interference, Bill Browder, the US investor and prominent anti-Putin activist, believes the media has barely scratched the surface

Can Brazil finally defy an old joke, and show its time has come - or will five centuries of inequality, violence and foreign meddling haunt it once again?

A promise by Nigel Farage may come back to haunt him if he ever becomes prime minister

A whodunnit with serious implications for the future of the broadcaster is underway – with all expected to be revealed at a select committee showdown

The Crown Prince has spent vast sums modernising his kingdom, but the social reforms and vanity projects can’t disguise his ruthless authoritarianism, or the brittleness of his rule

It is ludicrous that, in little over a year, Keir Starmer has gone from landslide high to record low satisfaction ratings

The right are undermining the institutions of liberal democracy. Progressives must change tack to stop them

With some Labour MPs in despair and others in revolt, the prime minister’s situation now looks terminal

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Rachel Reeves has performed a U-turn on tax, but global lenders have not reacted badly. In fact, for the chancellor, there is now light at the end of the tunnel

If we reach the point where real friends seem retro, life will have lost all its meaning

For obvious reasons, understanding why the masses fell for the fanatics would be the much more worthwhile research today