Politics

An extraordinary claim about the Brexiteer who wants to lead the Tories

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Liz Truss, Priti Patel, Robert Jenrick and more

How a once respected academic embarked on a “sad, depressing journey of radicalisation”

No, things wouldn’t have gone better if the Tories had prioritised Commonwealth trade

Ironically, the Trump campaign is trying to paint Kamala Harris’s likeability as a joke

If Labour fails in its declared missions, the Conservatives could have another chance – but not if they veer to the right

Vadim Krasikov is a free man. Putin wanted his hitman back

The Harris campaign understands why being deemed a political oddball is visibly getting under Trump's skin

Is free will worth the price of unspeakable acts of violence?

More Belgian in its culture than French, the north has nothing on the western coast

Valencia’s shores are paying the price of booming seasonal tourism

Would the world be a simpler and more economical place if we all spoke the same language?

GB News, the populists’ TV channel, has long tiptoed on the edge. Will making excuses for thugs finally send it over?

The long road back to the EU will take years – maybe decades – to traverse. But we must make a start

The islands welcome 14 million holidaymakers a year. Now asylum seekers are frequent visitors, too

In a community shared by the Belgians and Dutch, you can be in bed in one country while the partner beside you is asleep in another

Who is going to tell this now extremely nasty party that they are responsible for the riots on the streets of towns and cities up and down the country?

The furore surrounding the Algerian boxer, who may have Swyer syndrome, highlights complex issues around gender and sport

It makes the country richer, culturally and economically. Now’s the time to say so

At some point Jonathan Munro, editorial grandee and BBC director of journalism, will have to explain what he knew and when

Blame this disorder on the double standard that sees Muslims branded extremists – and the far right as sensible voices to be heeded

Elon Musk allows Twitter users to fan the flames of disorder - and that may come back to burn him and them

Foreign language teaching in Britain is on the decline, which risks making the country more cut-off and inward-looking than ever before

The far right are on the streets because they no longer have allies in power

The superpower of seafood dominates more than just the high seas

Market competition and debt-based expansion have left institutions with an uncertain future

The government says it’s levelling with us on the economy - so why not on the truth about a scheme demonised by Brexiteers?

If such a compromise between Kyiv and Moscow were achieved, it would most likely come about as a result of pressure from Washington and Beijing

The United States, then, has to live with the fact it helped free people serving time for crimes as severe as murder