Politics

The prime minister’s reforms are crucial to achieving a more humane prison system. But, they’re only the start

The new UK-EU deal has annoyed all the usual suspects, so Keir Starmer must be doing something right

Our continent runs on US tech. With Trump in the White House, that no longer feels safe – and plans are taking shape for a way out

Trump plays so often and is so obsessed with the game that his administration is now a golf course company with a government attached

Some Labour figures believe Britain has too many unis. But if they start failing, local economies – and Starmer’s re-election prospects – will go with them

Atheists have a simple answer: it is evidence that God doesn’t exist, while believers say the gift of human free will brings with it the possibility of doing evil

The PM has been a disappointment so far. Now he must make voters choose between Farage’s view of the past, and his own view of the future

The 81-year-old former chancellor claimed it prevented him from attending a parliamentary inquiry in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern over his role in the Nord Stream 2 saga

Don't discount the role of Gergely Kovács, head of the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party (MKKP), if Hungarians vote to remove Orbán from power next year

The Tory leader has put her foot in it again by peddling one of Putin’s talking points

The reaction to the shocking car attack in Liverpool tells us so much about ourselves

A brutal UK economy report makes it clear: the reset is not enough in the face of deeply troubling data on a trade meltdown

What it’s like to be in the centre of one of Putin’s airstrikes

Trump and Putin have shaken the bond markets. Reeves must now take radical steps to react

Makis Voridis, Greece’s new minister for migration and asylum, and his ultra-nationalist links are catastrophic for refugees

More and more far right extremists are being jailed - and shrill language by politicians must be partly to blame

The ‘white genocide’ story overlooks the suffering faced by the majority of South Africans. It also ignores the entire history of Apartheid

Or is it simply an afternoon in modern Britain?

Victims of sexual assault are harmed twice: first by their abuser and then by the justice system. Recognising this is just the start

If Keir Starmer is serious about keeping Reform out, he should reform the electoral system - and STV would boost calls for rejoin, too

Keir Starmer today performed the first screeching u-turn of his premiership. Fortunately, the leader of the opposition wasn't paying attention

Reform’s leader went on holiday as MPs debated the UK-EU reset deal. It wasn’t a gaffe – it was a ruse to avoid scrutiny

The Russian president got exactly what he wanted out of the latest round of talks in Istanbul

Of all the things that the Labour government has done, this is the one that has done the most political damage

Starmer is yet to reach the first anniversary of his premiership but, already, he has repudiated young middle-class metropolitan voters

Conspiracy theorists blame vapour trails on a strange experiment endorsed by Keir Starmer. And the craziest thing is… they’re half right

I’m one of those people who’s lived in more than one country and has now settled in the UK. Is that really so unreasonable?

The rot set in when Conservative members were given the right to vote for their leader, resulting in the disastrous premierships of Johnson, Truss and Sunak

Our political class is racing to catch up with a changed world of defence procurement

After 99 years, the German authorities and the Hohenzollern family have decided to bury the hatchet