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The veteran broadcaster’s straight-talking dispatches from Washington DC in feverish times have seen him called the ‘harbinger of daily astonishment’

The president’s funding freezes, gagging orders and ideological purges are wreaking havoc on US scientific research

Despite all the warning signs the first time around, the world is paying a very heavy price for Trump 2.0

Keir Starmer’s decisive action on Ukraine has seen him overtake the Reform leader in a new poll

The former GB News man, expelled from his church, needs $350,000 to buy a ‘modest house’ in Michigan

The disastrous Oval Office meeting with Zelensky showed that Trump is slavishly devoted to Putin. Why?

After years supporting the US president, his Oval Office humiliation of Volodymyr Zelensky was a step too far even for Axel Springer’s MAGA-loving boss

The Ukrainian president, well versed in dealing with hecklers, was not fazed by a fringe journalist who appeared not to know his history

Michael Wolff’s new book on Trump and his court reveals a president whose elixir is a cocktail of conflict and confidence, and for whom everything is spectacle

The Trump Zelensky disaster was unbearable to watch and revealed the inescapable fact about Trump – and the US

What happens next will define the prime minister’s legacy – and shape the futures of Britain and Ukraine

It took Ernest Bevin and a fear of Soviet expansion to bring Nato to life. Not even the US’s nationalistic retreat from Europe will kill it off

In these worryingly unpredictable times, the UK needs to be fully engaged with the EU, for our own safety, security and prosperity

The American jazz pianist had a passion for teaching music, and created a bridge between the worlds of bebop and classical

Despite the lessons from the pandemic, the demagogues and their followers are all too ready to embrace a cult of death

Donald Trump and the mind-bending insanity of his foreign policy that treats enemies as friends and vice versa

A vote at the United Nations made it very clear what he thinks of America’s former allies across the Atlantic

The braggart in the White House claims to have record high approval ratings – but polls show he actually has the worst among modern American presidents

US support is gone forever. What kind of Europe will emerge from the wreckage?

Ukraine and tariffs mean the EU’s bandwidth is receding - now Starmer must act fast

The former prime minister has been reduced to giving interviews to obscure US YouTubers with a handful of viewers

Trump has shafted Ukraine. Now he threatens the security of the west

The normally talkative party have little to say on America’s abandonment of Zelensky and the western alliance. Why?

JD Vance’s rant against a British law banning protests outside abortion clinics is pure hypocrisy - and nothing at all to do with free speech

The British new editor of Washington's premier political newsletter is experiencing a bumpy start

A new poll shows opinions shifting on whether the US can still be seen as an ally

His previous attempt to start a trade war with China only rebounded on America. This time round, might the US president try to cut a deal?

Not even his shocked closest allies know what drove Donald Trump’s Ukraine sell-out

Greenland, the Panama Canal, trade wars, the Gaza riviera, surrendering to Putin – and it’s only week three. Most of it won’t happen. But some of it might. And that’s the problem