Politics

There are far too many questions over the former first minister's behaviour towards women for warm eulogies

Is AI really science, or just hi-tech number crunching?

The Labour prime minister has said the way to kickstart the British economy is to cut red tape. What the hell is he thinking?

The private equity industry – a wealth-extracting machine – is swallowing up UK businesses and stripping them of their assets while our politicians stand by

The PM is running out of time to change the narrative around his government’s shaky start

Boris Johnson sounded more unhinged than unleashed while defending his pet project

The IFS delivers a gloomy verdict that will put pressure on the chancellor for tax rises and spending cuts

His attempts to pin the Brexit blame on David Cameron say everything about this egotistical inadequate

The leadership race increasingly looks like the last hurrah before the party's long descent

If Labour can restore a sense of community, it will reap as much political benefit as any amount of good economic data

By the time another election looms, Conservative MPs will sniff potential doom and ditch their leader for a more Machiavellian individual

All eyes are on vice-chancellor Habeck as his plans for the party fail to pay off

Brussels is frustrated by Keir Starmer’s red lines – and baffled by the same old talk from his new government

As US citizens, we can no longer physically return to the ‘land of our birth’, because it no longer exists except in our memories

Now stoking rumours about Keir Starmer’s private life, the right wing activist uses her journalistic platform to push her political agenda

The Russian leader remains an agent of chaos, and as Iran may soon find out, he only has one issue in mind – his own self-interest

Remainers are facing up to the need for a change of tack to push the PM further towards Europe

Putting a cherished but broken NHS at the centre of a complex moral argument is fraught with danger

Is her forthcoming memoir’s defence of abortion an indication that Republicans won’t be so hardline on this issue if elected?

Scientific American magazine has endorsed Kamala Harris, but many in the science community have their concerns

Most people in the European capital city don’t want to talk about the war – ignoring the horrors of the Eastern Front is the only way to get by

Pressure is on John Swinney’s government as price rises are doing little to stop teenage drinking habits

Ninety-nine-year-old Anna Possi and her bar have put Nebbiuno on the map

In Fanø, a tiny island off Denmark’s west coast, signs of the second world war endure for residents today

We live in a time of conflict. Stuck in this doom loop of grievance and warfare, is the idea of peace in our time now little more than an impossible dream?

Rachel Reeves will have less to spend - but will argue the rise in applications vindicates her strategy

Leaving the EU has caused huge tensions on Gibraltar. Now the creators of the mess are campaigning against its solution

It’s in Israel and the rest of the wider region’s best interest to bring Netanyahu under control

Boris Johnson’s lie-filled book shows he believes he has done nothing wrong – and also thinks his political career is far from over

Her departure offers the chance for a reset - but fixing Labour’s stumbling start needs much more than a reshuffle