Politics

The White House’s destruction of USAID is a callous, catastrophic mistake that will damage America as well as the world

The right wing, Tory-supporting media is banging the drum for quick results, but trying to fix an economy as broken as ours will take time and patience

When the country goes to the polls, the divide will only become more entrenched

The idea, proposed by the Tory leader, that people should wait 15 years before being eligible for a passport, is nothing more than crude xenophobia

If coupled with actual delivery of better arrangements with the EU, Reform’s weakness on Brexit is fertile ground

The country goes to the polls on Sunday – and the people of Kosovo know exactly what they want

By offering the same old rhetoric on benefits, migrants and spending, Keir Starmer looks like the continuity Sunak

His ideas to redevelop Gaza are horrifying and absurd. But the strip is a warzone of rubble and bodies – if not this, then what?

For Badenoch and other politicians on the right, feminism is now a completed project

Eleven people are dead in the latest outbreak of horrifying violence in Sweden. Can the nation hold together?

The new president presents us with a huge opportunity. As the US becomes more volatile and unwelcoming, Britain, and Europe could well benefit

The recent seminar at Oxford University, held by the Europaeum network, discussed the challenges posed by the new president, for Britain, Europe and the world

The president both reflects and promotes grievances among those who voted for him – he is also more dangerous than before

Transactional diplomacy is in, and values are out. Getting tougher on China is the one thing on which Democrats and Republican agree

Everything that the president has proposed will be inflationary – and inflation-driven booms have a bad history in the US

The neoliberal economic model has gone, and been replaced by something much more powerful – and troubling

The US president embodies a new kind of pragmatism, where if you say it enough, and if you believe it yourself, even the most far-fetched ideas attract support

The natural party of government is fast becoming an irrelevance at prime minister's questions

Even if the Democrats manage to get the presidency back in 2028 there is no real sense that things could return to normal for the US

A new film about an architect who survives the Holocaust is a stunning achievement, and one with deep resonance for our own time

Eventually, when a bully has got out of control and he’s made enough enemies, he may find the roles of bully and bullied reversed

It’s 100 years since Werner Heisenberg developed the theory of quantum mechanics. No one could possibly have imagined how this discovery would be put to use in the future

China has upended the artificial intelligence war, and now anyone can win – shaking the assumptions of Trump, Musk and Starmer

The tech bro’s ally Alice Weidel spouts fake facts and demonises Muslims – and she is getting closer to becoming German chancellor

We should never forget what happened and be aware that it could all too easily happen again, here and now

At the late former deputy prime minister’s funeral, it became clear that Britain could do with some politicians like him today

After 150 years, the city’s Victorian sewers are at last being upgraded – but Thames Water remains firmly lodged in the financial mire

At some point soon, the PM is going to have to choose Europe over Trump’s USA

The populist party is a growing force that cannot be ignored - but Starmer’s government must still deliver or die

How long has the Conservative leader got before her notoriously ruthless party decides they’ve had enough of her?