Politics

According to Fifa, £7.22bn in men’s football alone has been spent in transfer fees, a jump of more than 50% compared with the same period in 2024

The PM needs to remove the blockages that are preventing policy from becoming reality. If he doesn’t, the result could be Reform, and disaster

Panama, undeserving of its media silence, is still humming with creatures great and small

South Africa is very comfortable with chaos, especially on the roads

The president is hoping to win voters over for the country's mid-term elections with the same spending cuts that plunged public sector workers into poverty

There’s only one person to blame for this cycle of collapsing governments

Where is the line and how do you know when someone has crossed it?

Farage is getting ready for power, but his party is becoming much more politically extreme than he is. If he gets the chance, will he give them what they want?

Young people have tried voting – a lot of them have concluded that it didn’t work

Artificial intelligence is intersecting with the graduate job market to reduce the opportunities on offer

Farage’s political gameplan has one key weakness that Starmer needs to exploit ruthlessly

The Daily Mail commentator thinks bringing the late Queen into politics is distasteful. It’s hard to imagine a more hypocritical view

It’s easier for Xi to make friends abroad when he has the Russian dictator by his side

At a hearing in DC, the leader of Reform said that he does not ban journalists from his party’s conference - just hours after his party banned The New World

Reform claims to be the party of free speech, but this last-minute decision to stop me attending its conference tells a very different story

For decades, US survivalists have warned about a future with troops on the street and plain-clothes goons disappearing the White House’s enemies. Now it’s all happening under Trump, they are silent

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Easily dismissed as a diminutive thug, the unfortunate reality is that he understands perfectly the role he has to play in propagating hateful racist nationalism in a country increasingly receptive to his message

Fentanyl, the synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin, is posing a health crisis in the US. But the Trump administration are happy to pretend it isn't happening

Taiwan's convenience culture isn't going anywhere. When it's become a way of life, how could it?

Forget Prime or HBO, Germans are fixated by the case unfolding live in a high-security Hamburg courtroom usually reserved for terrorism cases

Right now, Xi Jinping is letting Trump do all the soft power heavy lifting for him

In today's world, media doesn't need AI - it needs real journalists

The right have been radicalised, while abuse forces moderates off the platforms. This can’t go on

Britain is drowning in hate. We can’t let Farage remake us into a truly nasty nation

The chancellor lacks the calibre and clout to spell out Britain’s challenge - and the inevitable pain involved in fixing it

Questionable foreign deals, crypto gambles and putting the squeeze on media opponents have seen Donald Trump make $3.4 billion from the presidency. And he’s not finished yet

Costly childcare and housing, short paternity leave, poor support for the self-employed - no wonder more people are choosing not to have babies

The country’s rentrée – the return from summer holidays – is in progress… and so are political blackmail, mass protests, corruption and the probable collapse of the government

Labour have failed to connect Farage with economic disaster in the minds of ordinary people. That must change

The man who would be PM has already spent a decade getting much of what he wanted - and none of it has worked

Vladimir Putin claimed the city was Russian in 2023, but staking the claim doesn’t make it so