Politics

Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence, MAGA is working in concert with the British far right to rebuild the UK in a Trumpian image

Immigration was falling, but the racists and populists still took control of the narrative. Whoever comes next must get tough on the causes of social division

The PM-in-waiting will shift power from the capital to the cities to help national cohesion and end the populist right’s grievance culture. It has to work

As a killer heatwave grips France, an argument over air conditioning has become so fierce that it could sway the national political mood.

Faced with constant electricity blackouts and a failing grid, people in Pakistan took matters into their own hands. The result is a lesson for the rest of the world, and also a warning

There’s a guide for how politicians can achieve economic and social progress. It’s right there in the history books

The newspaper has launched a fresh campaign for Brexit, just a decade after the electorate voted for it and five-and-a-half years after it was delivered

Trump’s escapade against Iran achieved nothing. Instead, it cost huge amounts in both money and lives, and he can’t get Israel to stop fighting in Lebanon

The former Federal Reserve chair is dead at 100. Once regarded with awe, the financial crisis made clear he wasn’t what he appeared

The change of leader in No 10 gives a chance for the UK government to reset its position on perhaps the most difficult foreign policy question of all

For Europe's farmers, longer and hotter summers contribute to the region’s biggest problem of all

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Tears, Coldplay and chicken wine: Behind the scenes in the last days of a premiership

Job applications are written using AI and are scanned by another AI and then, if you get through to the interview stage, you’ll be interviewed by AI too. Surely this can’t be right

Everywhere you go, in the real world and online, you are under constant surveillance from the government or one of the tech giants. Unless, that is, you happen to be a billionaire

Huge amounts of narcotics are being shipped from South America to Australia, via the small Pacific island nations. That trade is leaving a trail of dirty money and social disaster in its wake

Spoiler alert: The budget is low, the cast is flawed - and a lot is being pinned on the new leading man

Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have marked the 10-year referendum anniversary with articles full of self-serving nonsense

Out of Europe and reliant on an unreliable US, Britain has drifted towards strategic irrelevance. There is a way back – by engaging with the bloc of half a billion people that’s right on our doorstep

A number of political realities collide with Andy Burnham’s entry to Downing Street – and an early General Election is the obvious conclusion

Be optimistic, don’t ignore the party and find new ways to cut through lies and disinformation

This is Labour’s last chance to see off the threat of a 2029 Farage victory. There is one piece of advice that the next PM needs to hear

The hope of May 2024 has been squandered, and Andy Burnham is unlikely to revive it

Britain's European allies want to know what a new PM would mean for defence, Ukraine, energy and AI

If you can’t tell a political story about the future, then what, really, are you asking people to vote for?

The nature of how his landslide was won demanded more inclusive government

The PM-in-waiting has 18 months, tops, to reset Britain and save it from Farage

New polling suggests that old Brexit red lines are falling away, with a majority now open to freedom of movement

Organised criminals have been abducting and disappearing people in Mexico for years. But the same is now happening in the US, and there the perpetrator is even more powerful

He could have been a great PM but subcontracting his political thinking to Mandelson and co has led to his demise

Burnham is precisely the opposite of what Labour and Britain need from a new PM

A good night for Vorderman, Miliband and Lowe, a bad one for Kenyon, Polanski and Streeting