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If you listen to the 24/7 media blah factory right now, you’d think it would be a landslide for the PM to quit

HS2 has been a decades-long, multi-party disaster that encapsulates everything that’s wrong about UK government decision-making.

Less rage, more delivery is the former David Cameron adviser’s message in the race to become the state’s next governor

Britain’s 16-24-year-olds face too many barriers and not enough opportunities. This is how we can help them

The fighting in Mali is forcing the anti-government forces into some difficult alliances. And when the fighting stops, what then?

Vice president Sarah Duterte of the Philippines, daughter of the deposed strongman Rodrigo, might be on the verge of following her father into political history – and infamy

If the president did betray Taiwan, other US-aligned countries in the region will start making other plans. And Trump might not like the new alliances that emerge

Globalist Quakers, a swastika tattoo, dead for 30 years – are these true or false?

Merz is trying his best, but his approval ratings are now in the dirt. To make things worse, he’s now being offered a steady stream of advice, almost all of it unwanted

A hidden Brussels unit plans the continent’s disaster response - and citizens want it to do more, not less

More than a million Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in Putin’s war in Ukraine. But he cannot back off. Instead, he will switch tactics. Ukraine – and the west – must be ready

Keir Starmer has made mistakes – but he’s been trapped by journalism’s endless psychodrama

Our findings contradict claims from tech giants that they have made their platforms a safe space for schoolchildren

After the assault on Gaza and the huge number of settlements being built in the West Bank, the idea of two people living side by side, each with their own state, is over. There is now only one state – and it is in total control

Populist leaders share the same weakness – their unrealistic promises can’t survive contact with reality, so their governments are doomed from the start. And when failure inevitably comes, voters must suffer the consequences

The current president is clueless on the world stage. But, if the Democrats ever get back into power, they won’t turn the US into an open, internationalist peacebroker. Their focus is their voters – it looks set to stay that way

The government wants to do it. And Reform are committed to massive benefit cuts. If they get their way, it will be a catastrophe

Rollie Kahaani’s photos from populist rallies are grabbing attention

Brexiteers used to claim their victory was for "real, ordinary, decent" people. Now they openly boast it was for billionaires

Companies are using AI systems for recruitment, arguing that it’s a way of removing bias from the system. But it brings with it a whole load of other problems, some of them just as bad

A new letter signed by more than 60 MPs and Lords is based on the original smear published by the Daily Telegraph

That first step into the outside world is harder now than ever before – the starting jobs simply aren’t there. The consequences of that are being felt across an entire generation

He’s about to list his rocket company on the US stock market, which will make him even richer. With that money in hand, Musk will launch his most audacious plan yet

Germany’s once-powerful SPD is crippled by caution - Starmer and his possible successors must take note

Successful countries need alliances, but not to be shackled to old obligations. They need to be open to partners, but to push hard in their own interests. They need, in other words, to be more like India

A prime minister cannot trample over parliament. It doesn’t work that way and the ones who try it invariably go down in flames. Whoever follows Starmer into No 10 should keep that in mind

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Labour’s caution has left us drifting into Farage’s waters. But a universal basic wealth, massive devolution and a new voting system could help turn the ship around

A former senior US spy chief has watched the spread of conspiracy theories, political hatred and outright cruelty under Trump, and has come to a worrying conclusion about the nation he once served

African governments always knew western aid came with strings attached. When the US, UK and France cut their aid budgets, the time had come for a change. The results could transform the continent

Despite Trump’s enthusiasm, the president has returned home with little more than a hint that if he avoids displeasing Xi, it could turn into something more substantial