Politics

An attempt to kayak the Northwest Passage turned into a close-up look at a new, very cold war

Belgians are meant to be recycling champions, but it’s a different story in Brussels

We could be 100 days away from a far right takeover of the European Parliament. But is winning headlines the same as winning votes?

Yulia Navalnaya is keeping her husband’s work alive, making hundreds of thousands of Russians feeling less alone

The parallels between the blaze in the Spanish city and Grenfell Tower are glaringly clear

Kyriakos Mitsotakis is trying, and failing, to prove that he’s a modern, liberal prime minister

Over the last decade, Russia has sent agents into Bulgaria on 10 separate occasions to attack weapons facilities

Germany’s tax system is at the heart of the country’s institutional sexism

The world is a long way off achieving gender equality

A new report makes clear that the Tories’ economic planning is based on fantasy

He may make it Labour’s problem when they come into office

Lee Anderson is gone, but he shouldn’t be forgotten. His rise says it all about a discredited party

The business secretary’s conflict with Canada is serious - and it has diminished Britain

Sorry continues to be the hardest word as the former PM rounds on the deep state

French actor Judith Godrèche’s allegations of rape and abuse by star directors have opened up a second wave of #MeToo in France

Procedural manoeuvres, bellowing and walk-outs – there’s a good reason for it all

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Kemi Badenoch, Daniel Hannan, the New Statesman and more

The PM is the only person in Britain who’s not noticed Badenoch wants his job

Banning phones for under-16s would make them more anxious, not less

Parties need to take greater care when selecting their candidates

I'm starting to think the Tories are heading back, not a day too soon, into opposition

The Tories can change the manager but not the facts: their flagship policy is a huge economic drag

On the second anniversary of Putin’s invasion, the time for talk is over. If Ukraine is defeated, an entire continent will be next

New by-election defeats have put Sunak under pressure. But the flaws of his likely successor suggest she would be another disaster for the Tories

Philosophers are more diverse than history has led us to believe

Taking a risky trip to liberated Kherson with a president who understands his own value as figurehead of a defiant nation

From Kyiv, a leading photographer shares her thoughts and images of what Russia’s aggression looks like close-up

Next month’s local elections are sure to bring extensive debate over how the disaster was handled by local government

Navalny knew that every syllable he uttered was a potential death sentence, but he spoke anyway

Inequality cannot be solved just by helping the poor. We must limit the corrosive power of extreme riches

Cast adrift from the rest of Europe in self-imposed isolation, the UK is behaving like a spoilt child