Politics

John Healey's resignation is a nightmare for the PM, and the man who wants to replace him

There is a new dividing line in Northern Ireland, one that ignores the old sectarian lines of loyalists and republicans, and threatens the province with a new, insidious kind of division

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The Nordic nation has been named the ‘happiest country in the world’ for the last eight years. Why?

Decades of neglect have left road, railway and energy repair facing an investment gap of £400 billion

He wanted to build a huge new development in Surfers Paradise. The local population had other ideas

As PM, he would face all the same constraints as Starmer, Sunak and Johnson. If he makes promises he can’t keep, then like the others, he’s done for

A sorry list of leaders have failed to grasp even the most basic economic lessons, with disastrous results

A Russian drone crashed into a residential area in a Romanian border town. What came next was even more worrying

The media tells us we must listen to voices from the right. Can we metropolitan liberals have some time too?

Russia and China can identify, map and cut the undersea cables on which the modern world relies. The west is only just waking up to the threat

In the aftermath, the world reacted with a blend of bemusement and opportunism that signalled a new world order would emerge in the next decade, with the UK as a lost and aimless spectator

The Gemini 7 mission was a reminder that for all the glamour of space flight, it’s important to get the small things right – and that includes the plumbing.

A generation has grown up that didn’t vote in the referendum, but has had to suffer the consequences of leaving the EU. Now they want to rejoin

Obedient to Trump and with America’s security apparatus at his disposal, Bill Pulte has the potential to cause huge damage

A brutal murder in Southampton has exposed the way political extremists influence and distort politics in other countries

His gaudy White House UFC event is taking place just as those who love and take part in the sport are deserting his presidency

They lied and lied, we were complacent - and the culture war began in earnest

As the singer-songwriter tours his early material, it's starting to sound like prophecy

The BSE crisis - and Europe’s response - set in train many of the arguments that resurfaced in the referendum 20 years later

Political ads on TV are subject to strict guidelines – but on social media, the rules are weak to the point of dysfunction. Add AI into the mix, and things begin to look downright sinister. It’s time to rewrite the law

When the would-be next PM squared up to the sexist plumber in a Makerfield by-election special, there was only going to be one winner

No one here wants the guns, the bombs or the terrorists. Yet here they are all the same, desperate to drag Northern Ireland back into the misery of the Troubles – and their list of victims is longer than you think

It's petrifying, but I’m one of the three-quarters of UK workers who aren't on course for a "moderate pension income"

The paper claimed that 'Project Fear' was pure propaganda - but the economic facts show it was all too real

After the 2008 crash, it took a global effort to get the world economy back on track. But if another disaster did occur, with Trump in power, cooperation would be much harder

Claims that Henry Nowak’s death shows police are guilty of “institutional racism” against whites are a manipulative reversal straight from the US far right playbook

The violent chaos in Southampton, sparked by the murder of Henry Nowak, was all over social media. That’s because most of the rioters were hoping for one thing above all – to make money out of it

The police made a terrible mistake with Henry Nowak. But deliberately stoking racial tensions for personal advantage is despicable

It’s housing. There simply aren’t enough homes. Successive governments have promised to solve the problem, but none of them have managed it, perhaps knowing any policy would benefit their successor. It’s time for that to end

It started badly – and when he said the UK was unreliable, I lost it