Opinion

The prime minister has deliberately created an inner circle who pose no threat and never question any of his actions

The Sun’s Harry Cole continues to fight the prime minister’s corner. Dominic Cummings, meanwhile, finds this tiring

The Labour leader’s agonisingly slow creep towards the right Brexit policy goes on - and his latest move will infuriate Remainers

When the Women’s Euros begin this week, some will carp about a quality gap with the men’s game. The rest of us will just enjoy the skill and the spectacle

Along with Ukraine, the EU has accepted neighbouring Moldova as a candidate to join the bloc, conscious of its vulnerability – not least because of its Transnistrian region loyal to Russia

Emmanuel Macron’s failure at parliamentary polls in June will limit his role on the international stage. Is there anyone out there who could replace him as Europe’s leading political visionary?

After strutting the international stage for nine days, the PM is back to an economy bludgeoned by Brexit and a political class rocked by the most sordid of scandals

After 12 years Tory mismanagement, the country needs someone who'll make tackling the vast inequalities a priority

Far more than the Britpop bands, it was the Young British Artists who best personified the Blair era

It’s impossible to understand France and Macron without understanding the General

The pandemic and Ukraine have left the world’s finances on the brink. But predictions for Britain are worse than most. Why?

Boris Johnson has sought refuge in Ukraine. But, Volodymyr Zelensky knows an act when he sees one

Assange and his fans make it difficult to take his side. But this doesn’t change the fact that this prosecution is dangerous and unjust

As with most of Europe, abortion is treated very differently from any other aspect of healthcare in Germany. Pro-choice activists are fighting to change this

We must remember that we can control what we think and feel about the cards we are dealt, but not what happens to us

Some are seeing this as a demotion, but anything is a step up after working for Johnson

Rayner schooled “Dim Dom” in the art of political repartee

Here are some more crises the government could engineer to deflect the blame from Brexit

At the next election, Labour must hit back against the Tories’ myths rather than playing into them

A progressive alliance that decides to win together rather than being destroyed separately could, finally, evict Boris Johnson from Downing Street

The levelling up secretary spent Rupert Murdoch's summer party as the nonagenarian's personal pastry picker

The prime minister's strategist Lynton Crosby set up a lettings business with Remainer former chancellor Philip Hammond

The former environment minister is making big profits - enough to keep his children in hamburgers for a while yet

Ours was a chance encounter but it was absolutely life-changing, and I will never forget his kindness

The cost of living crisis, airline chaos and concerns over the environment mean pre-pandemic tourist numbers remain a distant prospect in Tunisia

Six years after the referendum, predictions of a mass exodus from the EU have proved – like so many other things they claimed – wide of the mark

It’s Lord David Frost, but not surprisingly his sixth anniversary speech is long on blather and short on evidence

Some may be richer, but the failure of Brexit has fatally damaged the reputations of all those who played a part in delivering it

Leaving the EU was meant to solve Dover’s problems. It has not worked out that way

Some Brexiteers are starting to look wistfully at the Scandinavian nation’s easier relationship with the EU. But it is right for Britain?