Politics

Our political leaders will barely utter the B-word – but they can’t avoid it forever

Robert Fico’s supporters believed the attack on his life would secure them a major political win. It didn’t happen that way

A nation under threat defeated Chinese interference in their poll – so what lessons can the US and UK learn from them?

He can’t be enjoying this, can he?

Just a quarter of people think the UK should be outside the EU - but no party leader is talking about it

Starmer is offering more reform than at first meets the eye

The Lib Dem leader has been running a crack campaign – with the Euros approaching, might he recreate a football fan’s famous stunt?

The papers aren’t bystanders any more – they’re political participants

On July 4, I will be celebrating the defenestration of the Tory party, but not without regrets over what has been lost

One of Keir Starmer’s first challenges as prime minister will be to navigate the fragmenting world order

Dogwhistling louder than ever and dominating UK political TikTok, Nigel Farage is setting himself up to win the 2029 election

Are Sunak’s advisers so politically inept that they could not see the enormity of the own goal they were about to score?

As the country prepares to host Europe’s biggest footballing extravaganza, here are my insider tips for navigating Germany like a local

Farage is wrong: immigrants make a positive contribution to our economy. Why won’t anyone say so?

These suggestions for the next government would be quick and easy to implement, and would not cost a fortune

Brussels has become synonymous with the European Parliament, but the real city is far removed from the exclusive little EU island inside the capital

Forty years ago, striking miners were lied to about the EU’s role in closing pits. No wonder so many went on to vote Leave in 2016

Be it football or politics, Georgians know the importance of unity

Voting is the baseline. Both the most ordinary and the most radically effective thing you’ll have the chance to do this decade

In calling a summer election, the prime minister reduced the power of the younger vote in Britain’s university cities

The more the prime minister lies, the more cynical voters become over the state of the country

A load of cobblers, written by charlatans, promoted by the deluded

Isaac Levido, who previously toiled as the strategist to Boris Johnson, is the real author of Rishi Sunak’s misfortune

The hard right has boomed under Macron – that will be his epitaph

Amid faint glimmers of hope, the European elections showed that a politics the world hoped was long gone is back on the march

They won’t win the election - but at least they are the adults in the room

Macron is playing a dangerous game by calling an election – and if Le Pen wins, we all lose

For years, the French hard right has cast a perpetual shadow over the country’s politics

The G7 and EU must make up their minds about what to do with €300 billion of Russia’s frozen assets

Georgia Meloni’s favourite swanky hotel is not all it seems

He’s not going to become PM, but he’s already taught Starmer and Sunak a lesson