Politics

The military’s investment in the technologies of invisibility should be a cause for concern

Despite neo-Nazi and antisemitism scandals, the Freedom Party FPÖ won the European elections in June

The Tory papers are relishing the chance to bash Labour. But with sliding circulations and their pals out of power, are they still relevant?

The prime minister rejected a reset and instead fell back on old themes in his Labour conference speech

Sponsors’ stalls at the party’s Liverpool get-together shows how much the political axis has shifted

Farage’s party are a bunch of deluded dogwhistlers, but here’s the rub: they could actually win the next election

What the right wing papers and the far left think doesn’t matter, but a hurting public’s judgement counts

The one thing you can rely on at party get-togethers is lots of booze

People in the UK are living longer lives – our economic system is not set up to deal with the consequences

For Generation X, it lives on in Scottish politics, culture and memory

Israel’s string of detonations across Lebanon is a stunning victory for its covert operative – but it may well backfire

No, we’re not living in a socialist dystopia as the Telegraph’s Simon Heffer claims - and nonsense like this is making the Tories unelectable

In his Daily Mail column, Robert Jenrick has delivered a masterclass in “early-onset authoritarianism”

Covid conspiracies, rambling speeches and dog whistles expose Nigel Farage’s party as a deeply weird rabble

A Border Force blunder by the former PM is claimed to have cost Britain another £250m

Labour and Tories are both divided on assisted dying – so long as that political uncertainty continues, Britain isn’t a safe place for vulnerable people

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Owen Paterson, Graham Brady, Dan Wootton and more

The Mail and Express claimed EU flags had been banned and seized on the Last Night - but thousands were seen being waved by the crowd

The former Conservative prime minister told Amol Rajan that when it comes to the “ultras” who took Britain out of the EU, he's in an unforgiving mood

UK government debt is set to treble catastrophically in the next 50 years. Can Labour do anything about it?

Netanyahu and his extremist administration have pushed the country to the brink. It needs a new government and a new plan

With around 80,000 buildings destroyed and many bodies still under rubble, the reconstruction of the Strip will take decades

It is part of Labour's challenge to make sure the public never forget this reality

The six pieces reproduced here offer glimpses of Palestinian humanity as the horror grew, from its first minutes into subsequent months

The farce of the Republican nominee’s rants about immigrants eating cats and dogs disguises a deep well of poison

That Keir Starmer has been letting a millionaire buy him and his wife clothes is not some life-shattering betrayal, but it is a betrayal nonetheless

While Europe has under-invested, China has invested. The UK needs to take notice

The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) is finding it hard to keep up with espionage's identity crisis

Labour could have made a much better argument over the scrapping of the winter fuel allowance. But it didn’t. Big mistake