Trump v Musk: proof that men are too emotional for high office
The big White House fallout is like watching a pair of young boys who’ve just drunk too much Red Bull – it’s just a shame they’re the richest most powerful men on earth
Politics
The exit that lays bare Reform’s fatal flaws
Zia Yusuf’s resignation deepens concerns over Islamophobia and Farage’s obsessive grip
How Heseltine savaged Rees-Mogg over Brexit and small boats
Their GB News clash was the original battle of wits against an unarmed man
Farage and the mystery of the missing boat
The Reform leader attempted to endear himself to fishermen by boasting he owned a commercial boat. So where is it?
WTF WFH: It’s time to get back to the office
Huge numbers of people are discovering that working from home isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
Reset Britain is still failing, only slower
Keir Starmer’s new deal with the EU was welcome, but it’s only a start. If we want to improve the UK’s place in the world, we need to go much further
Your next car will be Chinese
Three decades ago, Beijing decided it was going to become the future of auto manufacturing. How did they do it?
Nigel Farage is deep in the crypto-crapto
It is the preferred currency of organised criminals, terrorists – and now the Reform Party is getting in on the act
Merz can’t win with Trump. So why try?
Trump’s disdain for ‘Good old Germany’ is well known. Will the chancellor hold his own on his first official trip to the White House?
Kemi Badenoch is driving straight into a wall
She’s in opposition, and her errors are her problem. That doesn’t mean that her many, many failings as Conservative leader are any less galling
Tim Bradford’s cartoon: The further adventures of Winnie the Putin
It’s Moron v Loser as Reformers exchange blows
Two of the party’s most prominent pundits are tragically at each others’ throats
Could just £36,000 a year have stopped Brexit?
Michael Gove was set to back Remain before a demotion by David Cameron saw his salary cut, his ex-wife has claimed
The rise and flaws of agentic AI
Digital assistants that can autonomously perform tasks for a user are the new big thing. But do they actually work?
Fears are not enough: the hard sell of net zero
A populist pushback is fuelled by voter scepticism that our global leaders can ever crack the climate crisis
Helen Lewis: ‘Is Musk a genius? Look at his tweets’
Lewis’s new book, The Genius Myth, skewers rebel innovators who come to believe they can do no wrong. Remind you of anyone?
Letters: Europe has a tech problem. Here’s how to fix it
The continent lacks tech giants due to fragmented capital markets – a true single market also needs fiscal union
A new magazine for new times
The New World will hopefully outlast the new world trends, traits and personalities currently doing so much damage in so many ways
The chancellor has the worst job in government
Rachel Reeves’s fear of tackling the big issues means she is repeating the mistakes of the past, and summoning up memories of Tory austerity
Geert Wilders: the fall of an extremist
Hard right populists can get thrown out of power – just look at the Netherlands
Trump’s war against the law
It’s high noon for American democracy. Can the Supreme Court hold the line against MAGA’s madness?
The charlatans are clearly here to stay
Both Europe and America are being forced to face the populist right and they aren’t going to vanish all by themselves
Musk, Miller and a full-on frenzy
A tangled drama involving Elon Musk, former Trump staffer Katie Miller and her husband Stephen is provoking Washington whispers
Britain enters a new nuclear age
The government has decided that the country will rearm – this strategic review is just the beginning
Karol Nawrocki, Poland’s MAGA president
Yet another had right opportunist has exploited the opening in European politics that the left continues to ignore
Ukraine braces for a cruel summer
As Putin’s summer offensive begins, insiders in Zelensky’s camp say they are facing the toughest time in years – with scary ramifications for Europe and the world
Everything you do is wrong
Progressive parties will never win votes by lecturing the electorate on how to live their lives
When Ireland and Luxembourg saved Britain from Liz Truss
The governor of the Bank of England has just given an eye-watering speech about Britain’s economic idiocy
The flaw in Starmer’s attack on reckless Farage
The prime minister says Reform’s leader can’t be trusted – but there’s one example he refuses to use
Tommy Robinson: the empty extremist
He’s out of jail and will go back to being both a grifter and a demagogue. But men like Robinson allow us to ignore deeper truths about our society
Trump and Putin, the accidental founders of modern Europe
If the continent wants to survive, it has to adopt new fresh and bold thinking
The country desperate for EU membership
Unfortunately for Edi Rama, Albania’s prime minister, the country’s place in the EU will be secured not by optics, but by its democratic credentials and right now, those are being tested
Labour’s prison plan: reform or retreat?
The prime minister’s reforms are crucial to achieving a more humane prison system. But, they’re only the start
Letters: Resounding silence greets Starmer’s reset
The new UK-EU deal has annoyed all the usual suspects, so Keir Starmer must be doing something right
Can Europe unplug from Trump’s America?
Our continent runs on US tech. With Trump in the White House, that no longer feels safe – and plans are taking shape for a way out
Trump’s golf habit – sponsored by the US tax payer
Trump plays so often and is so obsessed with the game that his administration is now a golf course company with a government attached
If universities sink, then so will Starmer
Some Labour figures believe Britain has too many unis. But if they start failing, local economies – and Starmer’s re-election prospects – will go with them
Where is God when children are starving?
Atheists have a simple answer: it is evidence that God doesn’t exist, while believers say the gift of human free will brings with it the possibility of doing evil
Our new world demands vision. Does Starmer have one?
The PM has been a disappointment so far. Now he must make voters choose between Farage’s view of the past, and his own view of the future
Gerhard Schröder isn’t doing himself any favours
The 81-year-old former chancellor claimed it prevented him from attending a parliamentary inquiry in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern over his role in the Nord Stream 2 saga
Here’s how Orbán could be ousted
Don’t discount the role of Gergely Kovács, head of the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party (MKKP), if Hungarians vote to remove Orbán from power next year
Tim Bradford’s cartoon: Are Trump’s EU 50% tariffs smart?
Lie of the week: Nigel Farage on being abroad
Why is Kemi Badenoch so bad at politics?
The Tory leader has put her foot in it again by peddling one of Putin’s talking points
“White British” gives the game away about racism in the UK
The reaction to the shocking car attack in Liverpool tells us so much about ourselves
Is the UK doomed?
A brutal UK economy report makes it clear: the reset is not enough in the face of deeply troubling data on a trade meltdown
In Kyiv, my app told me: You are about to be bombed
What it’s like to be in the centre of one of Putin’s airstrikes
From tariffs to bonds – a new crisis is looming
Trump and Putin have shaken the bond markets. Reeves must now take radical steps to react
The new Greek minister’s war on refugees
Makis Voridis, Greece’s new minister for migration and asylum, and his ultra-nationalist links are catastrophic for refugees
The rise of British Nazis
More and more far right extremists are being jailed – and shrill language by politicians must be partly to blame
Donald Trump’s imaginary genocide
The ‘white genocide’ story overlooks the suffering faced by the majority of South Africans. It also ignores the entire history of Apartheid
Is this a hate march?
Or is it simply an afternoon in modern Britain?
How to stop rape culture
Victims of sexual assault are harmed twice: first by their abuser and then by the justice system. Recognising this is just the start
PR is the way to stop Farage ever becoming PM
If Keir Starmer is serious about keeping Reform out, he should reform the electoral system – and STV would boost calls for rejoin, too
PMQs Review: U-turn if you want, the lady’s not listening
Keir Starmer today performed the first screeching u-turn of his premiership. Fortunately, the leader of the opposition wasn’t paying attention
Nigel Farage, the Macavity of Brexit
Reform’s leader went on holiday as MPs debated the UK-EU reset deal. It wasn’t a gaffe – it was a ruse to avoid scrutiny
Putin has played Trump
The Russian president got exactly what he wanted out of the latest round of talks in Istanbul
Labour must reverse the winter fuel allowance cuts
Of all the things that the Labour government has done, this is the one that has done the most political damage
The government which actively loathes its own voters
Starmer is yet to reach the first anniversary of his premiership but, already, he has repudiated young middle-class metropolitan voters
The ‘secret plan’ to dim the sun
Conspiracy theorists blame vapour trails on a strange experiment endorsed by Keir Starmer. And the craziest thing is… they’re half right
Am I welcome in Britain?
I’m one of those people who’s lived in more than one country and has now settled in the UK. Is that really so unreasonable?
Letters: Tory members have killed their own party
The rot set in when Conservative members were given the right to vote for their leader, resulting in the disastrous premierships of Johnson, Truss and Sunak
We must take a nuclear leap into the unknown
Our political class is racing to catch up with a changed world of defence procurement
The House of Hohenzollern, a dynasty fit for a Netflix drama
After 99 years, the German authorities and the Hohenzollern family have decided to bury the hatchet
John Stuart Mill and the price of genius
The philosopher lost his childhood at the expense of his father’s educational experiment. It was far too high a price for anyone to pay
How Javier Milei brought hatred to Argentina
Milei’s press clampdowns are attracting international coverage. But that isn’t stopping him, if anything the president is doubling down
Robert Fico goes to Moscow
Just like Putin, Slovakia’s prime minister is cultivating a carefully crafted image of strength
In Belgium, even the dogs protest against Trump
In Brussels, Americans are distancing themselves from Trump’s policies – and they’re taking their dogs with them
Lie of the week: Allison Pearson on “Starmer’s political prisoner”
Tim Bradford’s Cartoon: Should you take medical advice from RFK Jr.?
Why is Trump’s America anti-science?
The US has long led the science world but now, researchers are moving abroad to continue their work
The plot to fool America
It’s possible to feel the deepest sympathy for Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis and still be appalled by the cover-up of his cognitive decline
It’s taken a Remainer to fix the Brexiteers’ mess
Keir Starmer’s pragmatic deal is nowhere near as good as rejoining – but it is good news for British companies, consumers and tourists
Romania’s narrow political escape
Nicușor Dan, the pro-European presidential candidate, emerged victorious in the most emotional and consequential election in Romania’s post-communist history
The UK-EU reset deal is not a Brexit surrender
Lost billions, border queues, red tape strangling business. What exactly is this bold reset deal supposed to be surrendering?
Labour’s immigration plans will close my care home
A crackdown on visas for so-called lower-skilled migrant workers will have a devastating effect on an already creaking sector
The government must seize this EU opportunity
The PM is going to Brussels next week for talks on resetting Britain’s relationship with Europe. It is the only way back to growth – everybody knows it
Labour could never handle Europe
The question of what to say about the EU will not disappear just because Keir Starmer has chosen to bury his head in the sand
It’s time to decriminalise abortion
Current abortion law in Britain is just a series of loopholes. It’s time for new legislation, because, as the US example shows, women’s healthcare can quickly become a political target
The flawed Assisted Dying bill still deserves to succeed
Scaremongering and clumsy amendments should not stall the cause of helping the terminally ill to die with dignity
Ipsos polls: Brits want a reset with Europe
A new relationship with Europe offers Labour the chance to reset more than Brexit
The prime minister appears to know less about Brexit than Simon Cowell
While Keir Starmer no longer resembles the man many people voted for, the former X Factor judge is calling for a new referendum on Europe
Nigel Farage’s economic plans make Liz Truss look prudent
Reform’s unfunded spending would bankrupt Britain
Letters: Labour needs to stop apeing Reform and start being positive
Following Farage means inching towards him as he inches further right – doing this has already left the Conservatives in ruins
India’s missed opportunity
The country has a swagger about it – but is Narendra Modi holding back its tech boom?
The complete unknown who could wreck Labour
Morgan McSweeney is the most influential invisible man in British politics. Is he to blame for Labour’s rightward turn and tanking opinion poll numbers?
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The Pope vs JD Vance
Robert Prevost may have been born American, but his experience, views and values are as far from Trumpian as were his predecessor’s
Bertrand Russell: lessons from a pacifist prophet
Many secular philosophers have opposed war and particular wars, but Russell stands in a class apart
Germansplaining: The battle over free speech
A string of decisions has triggered a wave of criticism – from the public, the media, legal scholars and politicians
Lie of the Week: Farage on the UK-India trade deal
Cartoon: How would a Reform government rule the UK?
Eurovision’s performers without borders
A Finnish comedy trio are among the bookies’ favourites to win the song contest… for Sweden
Spies, lies and Britain’s prize: We still need a Brexit inquiry
A photo of three Bulgarians convicted of espionage for Russia at a Commons committee on EU membership has opened up an old question
The ‘Brexit benefit’ trade deal shows we’re weaker out of the EU
Keir Starmer has done the best he could at a relatively low cost, knowing Britain lacks the backing to fully stand up to Trump
Starmer’s realism won’t go far in fantasyland politics
Starmer is doing deals as old certainties vanish. But frustrated voters will be hard to convince
Apparently I hate Winston Churchill
That’s the view of some people on the British right. But getting emotional over history is a sure sign that you’re abusing it for political ends
Wobbling Starmer must not turn back on the Brexit reset
Battered Keir Starmer knows the May 19 Brexit summit will bring more criticism from Nigel Farage. But the PM can’t turn back now
PMQs review: Is Kemi Badenoch getting her strategy from the Two Ronnies?
The Conservative leader quizzed the PM on Tony Blair’s net zero comments, just a week too late. Meanwhile, Ed Davey went all Pastor Niemöller
Rachel Reeves may have to U-turn on non-doms
The average taxpayer will have little sympathy, but evidence suggests Labour’s hard line could damage its growth ambitions
Alastair Campbell’s diary: Labour can’t beat Farage at his own game
Don’t fight him where he is strong, fight him where he is weak – the economy, the NHS, Putin, Trump, climate, and yes, Brexit