Politics

A very strange group of people gathered together in London today to promote a political agenda that nobody wants

Davey is desperately trying to fight off allegations of being “the invisible man”

The public is wary of returning to the divisive rhetoric that consumed Britain in 2016

All they really want is to be on telly...

Toxic masculinity, not the asylum system, is to blame for a rise in crimes using corrosive substances

The Council president who U-turned over resignation and Hungary’s populist head bring shame on Brussels

While Rees-Mogg and Leadsom celebrate leaving the EU, a deli owner speaks out about the extra cost of red tape

Too many politicians in Westminster live in fear of their lives

There is still a feeling that we don’t know who he really is

One Europhobe is finally waking up to the costs of leaving the EU

The guardians of the French countryside are posing a headache for the very new, very young PM

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Lee Anderson, Ukip, Chris Heaton-Harris and more

An ONS study exposes the myth of levelling up and shows London soaring away from the rest of the country

This week's Commons match-up was dominated by an Iceland worker from Warrington

The state of Europe’s fighting forces was too controversial a topic for the Davos agenda

Soon, China’s politics will give way to economics and its debt crisis will inevitably entail pain for consumers

The right wing press is stepping up its attacks on Labour’s leader as the general election nears. But what happens if he wins?

In this extract from his new book, bestselling author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers suggests we start to focus on the kind of world we want, not the one we don’t

Everything is impossible, as Nelson Mandela liked to put it, until you make it happen

If US politics gets any stranger, it's going to be hard to explain it any other way

The farmer blockades show that Emmanuel Macron and the City of Light must put on a winning show this summer for a deeply divided country

Just as food inflation finally slows, new border checks will make EU produce more expensive in our shops

A misfiring ‘personalised’ video by Rishi Sunak proves that politicians are getting online comms badly wrong

The icon of St Matrona of Moscow and Stalin has caused a remarkable division of opinion in Georgia, culminating in an act of vandalism

The Tories’ delusion knows no bounds – their electoral annihilation will be blamed on everyone and everything other than themselves

Jannick Sinner’s victory at the Australian Open proves that Italians, like us all, love a winner

If it’s difficult to believe what’s happening in America, remember what our electorate has done to this country since 2016

The Serbian leader's authoritarian grip is tightening amid allegations of election irregularities and growing discontent

The party is banking on the country turning a blind eye to its past – but the German citizens have had a wake-up call

After eight successful seasons at Anfield, Team Germany really needs Kloppo to come home

Finland has rejected the far right, but is the country ready for a gay, Green head of state in Pekka Haavisto?