Politics

The problem for the hip outsider is that, if you suddenly become the most powerful person in the country, your old ways don’t look the same any more

AI firms have been hiring philosophers to deal with the moral questions thrown up by their platforms. But are they just window-dressing?

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Disruption has failed – and America looks diminished and declining

Andy Burnham is pro-EU and politicians across the continent know it. The issue is whether he will last long enough to change British views on Europe

Surprisingly perhaps, of the three Britain gives the least cause for pessimism – but the political threats from Germany and France are deeply worrying

Attacks on the PM-in-waiting as a 1970s throwback speak volumes about a print media trapped in nostalgia

Helping migrating birds, archiving the internet, capping the price of bottled water, getting a dog and doing something about the UK’s zombie phoneboxes – these are just some of the things that will make Britain great again. Perhaps.

The horribly murdered politician wrote the playbook of the right wing populism that Andy Burnham must now confront

The incoming PM has a construction boom on his hands, just not the one he needs. Can he turn the student housing surge to Britain’s advantage?

Facing defeat in the mid-term elections, Trump decides that the only possible answer is war. 

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the European Union… it’s the feel-bad movie of the summer!

They picked Graham Platner as a candidate in Maine because he was a bit like Joe Rogan. But it didn’t work. In fact, it was a complete catastrophe

Kenya inherited a post-colonial state where power was held tightly in the centre. But after an outbreak of political violence in 2007, everything changed

It’s time to forget Chris Mason, Robert Peston and all the others – people aren’t paying attention to them any more. They haven’t for some time

Next week residents of the Rock will be able to travel anywhere in the Schengen area without restriction, leaving the UK in the shade

The population of Bradford has changed, but to say this represents some kind of social failure is ridiculous. How do we get beyond these obvious lies?

Open warfare between supporters of the far right rivals has turned the National Rally party into an episode of Succession

France’s far right presidential candidate could end up campaigning while wearing an electronic tag

The Reform leader is seen as incompetent, untrustworthy and not on the voters’ side

The man who would be PM will now spend the summer fighting for his political life against a man dressed as a bin

The PM-in-waiting is riding a wave of hope – but his key policy has no chance of bringing equality to a divided nation

If your country caused suffering and if identifiable victims are still alive, then apologetic statements may not be enough

Thailand’s international reputation is for beaches, great food and amazing nightlife. But the reality is very different – and much darker

Tari Lang’s memoir discusses growing up under Indonesia's military dictatorship while much of society carried on as normal

Abelardo de la Espriella is pro-Trump, pro-cuts, pro-Israel and very anti-left. He’s made big, wild promises – will he be able to keep them?

Italian politics has never looked so stable. If anything, people there are much more worried about turning into us

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Reform’s leader triggered a by-election at the end of a rant that veered wildly between incoherent defences and bizarre anecdotes