Politics

Falling interest rates have nothing to do with Labour’s new chancellor - but she will definitely take them

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Tom Tugendhat, Robert Jenrick, Darren Grimes and more

A payment to all OAPs was unjustified and unsustainable

His ill-informed, self-aggrandising, flame-fanning Southport video is beneath contempt

Extremists who used the Southport tragedy to play on people’s prejudices should feel the consequences

Vance is an odd choice. Insights from his memoir only make the decision stranger

A term limit, rather than an age limit, is key to reforming the upper house

Women presidents in film get into all kinds of trouble, mainly because they’re not at home taking care of their kids and cooking for their husbands

Kamala Harris has made a flying start to her presidential campaign, and so far Trump has no answer

The opening ceremony felt like France reintroducing itself to the world, warts and all

The time may come where they’re viewed as fellow workers, treated with respect and consideration

The chancellor’s political standing is putting him in danger of having his own ‘Biden moment’

Almost everything you have heard about Donald Trump and Project 2025 is true. And it is every bit as terrifying as it sounds

What the golf-mad presidential frontrunner’s game says about him

Rachel Reeves’s cuts come only after the previous government squandered vast sums of money

Yet another Tory leadership battle is under way. But, outside of the six contenders, does anyone really care?

The overturning of Roe v Wade could come back to bite Trump during this campaign and play into Kamala Harris’s hands

The Covid inquiry report has exposed the systemic failures in the UK’s pandemic response

Nude modelling has been an integral part of French art schools for centuries but now the models are demanding respect and status

A recent defamation case has shocked the public, not for its contents, but its speed

Morocco is claiming ownership of Ceuta as a way to put pressure on Spain

Knowing which language to speak to strangers in Brussels is a taxing task

Two hundred years after his death, Lord Byron is still considered among the founding fathers of modern Greece

The chancellor ripped up Tory legacy dreams and made the right call on the Winter Fuel Payment

With no job forthcoming and still to find a permanent home, Gove is becoming acquainted with the joys of public transport

Harris must learn how to construct a voter coalition in the places that matter through actions, not words

Rachel Reeves delivered controversial cuts.. and then came 'proof' the Tories misled the nation

Kemi Badenoch remains the front-runner - bizarre given how ill-suited to the job she is

The Bank didn’t cut rates during the election – might it do so now?