Opinion

There is a huge gulf between the shadow cabinet and the real thing. How will Starmer’s untested team cope with the brutal realities of power?

How can a new government make Britain better – and what does ‘better’ even mean nowadays?

For good reason – and much to the frustration of the tabloids – the Labour leader’s wife has done a great job of avoiding the spotlight

Will a Labour government prove quietly competent or will their lack of experience in power lead to trouble?

A lacklustre campaign has been marked by an unwillingness to get real about Britain’s problems

Will Keir Starmer lead the shift from chaotic Conservative turmoil into a new era of stability, or will it be more of the same?

For philosopher Tommie Shelby, Labour’s commitment to building more prisons is a sign of failure, short-termism, and nothing to celebrate

Being French and yet so invested in British life, you get double the highs and double the lows

The Ruhrgebiet, Germany’s most densely populated region, is often seen as dirty and decrepit, but it has a rich history and an underrated charm

Starmer looks poised for victory because those around him understand that Labour is the product of the working class

There must be something better than the juvenile name-calling that has come to characterise our way of government

There are gaping holes in our education system that are vulnerable to exploitation by certain politicians

As Italy turns to the right, the grass is looking greener back home for Britons

Bands that played Spain in the heady aftermath of Franco’s death have been rewarded with remarkable loyalty

It’s a very Anglo-European success, boasting a German founder, Dutch name and British customers

The Tories under 100 seats, Truss and Corbyn to lose, up to 55 Lib Dem gains and more

A wave of Brexiter MPs are on the way out. Can a new generation address the elephant in the room – that Britain has changed its mind on Brexit?

Wild, unsubstantiated claims about Labour’s plans recall the worst of George Osborne

The Australian strategist has burned through any credit he had with the prime minister

Posts are aimed at left and right, with tactics that are a hallmark of Russian security

Marine Le Pen’s clear win underscores her party’s achievement of making a duplicitous surface-level transformation to voters

In Nice, a stronghold of the French hard right, the racial and political tensions simmer

There is no real point to his Reform Party – so its leader dances ever closer to the extreme right

Labour’s leader has wasted one opportunity to reopen and win the debate. He can’t squander another

The party shows worrying signs of not fully understanding the limits of what might be available to a country outside the club

Reform’s plan is to bang on about PR throughout the next parliament. But Britain had a referendum just 13 years ago

A damning report from a California university says we are in decline and decay

Donald Trump would put America and the world in danger. But he will beat this stumbling president

Despite his disastrous debate performance, the president and his party are welded together