Politics

Lose in Gorton & Denton and the party may be driven even further right

The former chair of the US National Intelligence Council says that America’s security apparatus is so damaged the UK is holding back intelligence from the US

London could have been the EU’s capital, leading the continent’s defence against Putin and Trumpworld, instead of a spectator to decisions it once helped to shape

With his own man as chair of the Federal Reserve, and infuriated by the Supreme Court ruling on tariffs, the president might now seek to manipulate the currency for political ends

There is a strong anti-military strain in German culture and the introduction of national service has not been popular. But times have changed

The costs are huge, the interest repayments on student loans are crushing and the jobs market is alarmingly weak. And yet – there are still very good reasons to go to Uni

The US secretary of state told his audience he was only being tough on Europe because he loved it. It was almost as offensive as JD Vance a year earlier

The Green candidate – a local plumber – is convinced she can win. But does a Labour-Green fight risk splitting the vote on the left, and handing the seat to Reform?

A booming land of opportunity, of young entrepreneurs and start-ups, is locked in a 50-50 culture war that could see it replace Hungary as the EU’s biggest internal nightmare

A quarter of a million Rohingya people have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh. In the camps there is almost unimaginable suffering, danger and a longing for another life

My rent is about to jump by well over 10% and I’m not alone in my struggle. Why aren’t alarm bells ringing for the government?

An extraordinary tech surge is underway. At its core are female founders solving the untouchable problems

When Man United’s co-owner talks about being "colonised by immigrants”, does he mean Monaco?

I find it hard to think he didn’t hear and see things that made him feel he had to get Epstein out of his life

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The dissident artist has been targeted by China – but On Censorship reveals a wider world of control

Smoking and drinking might be bad for the health, but sitting around with people who see the world differently can have profoundly beneficial effects

When leaders meet at Munich, they must start the process of European rearmament in a way that takes account of the threat from Putin – and Trump

Viciously abused by her father, Ghislaine Maxwell made the horrible mistake of falling for a sexual predator

While older Britons have their final salary pensions and the triple lock, young people today can’t even afford to start a family. That could be pushing the country towards political disaster

The paedophile fixer’s depraved, narcissistic, super-rich circle have come to believe that they are beyond mortality and morals

Beliefs about equality are colliding with a constitutional ban on female conscription as a drive to increase Bundeswehr numbers ramps up

News reports that emerged from outside Iran put the number of dead protesters in the tens of thousands. Iranians inside the country, who took part in the demonstrations, tell a very different story

In the Kenyan mountains, a collection of colonial-era party houses is slowly rotting away. What should a nation do with the remains of its imperial past?

Elon Musk is getting excited about a new social media platform for AI systems. For once – unusually – he might not be completely in the wrong

Gustavo Petro went to the White House as Trump’s South American enemy No 1. But things turned out a little different than expected

The actor talks gangsters from New Jersey to Washington DC – and why he feels ‘sick’ about the state of his country

People in autocratic and chaotic countries believe in their governments more than we do in ours - it’s about feeling that your children will be better off

Macmillan was a real statesman, while Starmer is a failed party manager. Their shared flaw is that neither were curious enough

A permacrisis premiership is finished. A Labour defeat in the Gorton & Denton by-election would signal even deeper problems for his successor

There’s still a way the Amazon boss can save his legacy, even as his hitman Sir William Lewis walks away from the wreckage of the great American newspaper he owns

Editor-at-large Alastair Campbell on the reaction to the Mandelson affair, the calls for Starmer to go, and what happens to this government - and the United Kingdom - next