Politics

Populists have some very strange ideas about London. The best way to get over their irrational fears is to pay the capital a visit

Peace is not just about bombs falling silent, but the humanity that goes into maintaining it

The prevalence of dog attacks points to an underlying moral failing: too many owners are shirking their basic responsibilities

The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s most influential non-politician

Meridian Hill Park is a hub of progressive protest. It's home to everything Trump and his followers hate

In true Milei fashion, the launch of his book, The Construction of the Miracle, was turned into a rock concert to a crowd of 15,000 diehard supporters

The country’s politics may be fractious, but one thing both major camps agree on is that the rise of digital fraud needs urgent attention

Demonstrators in Valencia took to the streets for Gaza, but when it comes to issues like sustainable housing or last year’s flooding, they’re less vocal

Arresting a student for holding a copy of The New World shows how Britain’s crackdown on Palestine Action has become absurd and dangerous

In an attempt to control the flow of information, the rulers of Afghanistan plunged the country into darkness. That decision has backfired

Blaming Reform’s leader for impending tax cuts only makes sense if you push the UK closer to the EU, too

For my generation, the internet meant connection. Now it only means division

Trump has forged a peace in Gaza – but his inability to influence Israel has undermined the US’s reputation and weakened its global alliances

A bullying autocrat has succeeded where years of calm diplomacy failed. Progressives must ask why

The recent parliamentary election result was not a show of support for PAS but instead one for Europe – and against Russia

The country is teaching its people a version of the past in which China is always the victim. The consequences of that could be highly dangerous

Two right wing crooks have finally brought the slaughter to an end. Now, there must be law and accountability, or there will never be peace

Exclusive: We track down the student whose arrest exposes absurdity of Palestine Action’s proscription

In Farage and Badenoch's eyes, is even paying taxes in Britain good enough for EU nationals like me?

Leaving the ECHR would revive damaging wars with Brussels that Badenoch’s supporters don’t want

The Prosperity Institute’s plans have been tried and failed

The richest 3600 Europeans hold as much wealth as the poorest 181 million, according to a new report by Oxfam

In her closing speech to conference today, the Tory leader presented herself as a sensible fiscal Conservative. But she is something very different

This government’s stupid criminalisation of peaceful protestors is a hole they keep on digging

The former footballer who removed a union flag is now a target of the hypocritical right

Big tech is using the ‘nanny state’ arguments pioneered by the tobacco and alcohol industries to convince us that their freedom to sell equates to our freedom to choose. The opposite is true

If you want to understand the true depths of Labour’s electoral challenge, pay a visit to Hampstead

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The PM was right to call Reform’s leave to remain policy racist – but he will regret it

There is, so far, no philosophical consensus about how we should go about our lives. We have to keep thinking for ourselves

Funeral laws in Germany have long been a model of order and control. But one state’s reform could change the way the nation mourns

Moisés Naím’s new book unpacks how these snake-oil shysters deceive the public