Opinion

The ideologies aren’t working – and neither are the political parties

If doner meat thrust chaotically into fluffy bread is a surefire way to encourage sobriety in the UK, it is almost a religion in Berlin

Received Pronunciation was the epicentre of how you had to talk in British plays. Then a play called Look Back in Anger by John Osborne arrived

When the rest of the world looks at Britain they see a country of systemic failures, dysfunction and absurdity. But it need not be like this

Brexit is clearly the failure it was always going to be, but repairing the damage and avoiding the mistakes of the past is a long-term task

Why have we failed to invest anywhere near as much as our rivals – and what can we do to put things right?

The election might be dull, but the street art it’s inspired is anything but. And its message is: get out and vote

Betgate could join Partygate as a defining scandal of the Tories’ 14 years in power – even if Tory papers were reluctant to touch the story

Tracked down in Somerset, even Jacob Rees-Mogg admits it would be ‘ridiculous to pretend’ that he is not facing a Portillo moment on July 4

Keir Starmer is set for a landslide built on hatred of the Tories. Now he must soothe Britain’s rage – or become its next victim

The epidemic of cynical tackles at the Euros evokes Søren Kierkegaard’s concept of the ‘teleological suspension of the ethical’

There are rumours that a Labour government may try to put an end to Westminster’s drinking culture by shutting down the bars on the parliamentary estate

As Marine Le Pen’s extreme right party creeps ever further ahead of its rivals, a new democratic collective has emerged

Unlike Nicola Sturgeon or Alex Salmond, the new SNP leader doesn’t just lack a personality cult, but a personality to form a cult around in the first place

The Pope has initiated the process of sanctification of a 15-year-old boy who died from a severe form of leukaemia

The cross-party political campaign group Unlock Democracy proposes overseas constituencies to better represent Brits abroad

The sentiments of the city’s inhabitants reveal a complex mix of political engagement and disillusionment

They are adrift in the polls, financially hard-up and morally bankrupt.. and now the Conservatives may not even finish second

What the Tories mean by a ‘supermajority’ is that they are set to lose really, really badly on July 4. Good

The best way to fight the Reform leader’s populism is to produce a united front

If the new prime minister gets it right, something better than Blairism is in prospect

Not one single asylum seeker has been deported there, but the UK’s ‘plan’ is seemingly now also an option for Germany

In past French elections, the left has voted for the centre to keep out Le Pen. Now the right is being asked to do the same – but will they?

John Redwood: the man who got everything wrong

A plea deal has saved the Wikileaks founder from facing more years in prison on charges that were fundamentally unjust

The BBC presenter’s flagship weekend politics show faces a doubtful future

Politics is very different on each side of the Atlantic - but the populist right is determined to bring US-style polarisation to Britain

Nigel Farage is finally an MP – but is the Reform leader now heading into the Westminster spotlight – or into irrelevance?

Their period in power is ending not with a bang, but a flutter

Something is rotten in our rivers and off our coasts, taking the country back to Victorian times

Labour’s Jovan Owusu-Nepaul is impressive – but is he really going to defeat Farage?