The New European

The new PM is not a showman or a kamikaze gambler, just straight down the line, with his own individual style of operation

They might have ruined the country, crashed the economy, partied through Covid and brought us Brexit … but on the upside, the Tories have provided us with great front-page material. We’ll miss that*

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

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

In order to woo Leave voters, Labour has adopted a policy of accepting Brexit, which is exactly what Nigel Farage wants

Voting is the baseline. Both the most ordinary and the most radically effective thing you’ll have the chance to do this decade

Cameron and Osborne were not centrists; their brutal austerity, destruction of local government and the harm they did to young people were the result of hard right policies

The beleaguered British public deserve better than this morally impoverished Tory government

Paola Totaro’s ‘immigrant’s love letter to Britain’ reminded our readers of all the good things about the country, and moved some to tears

The Tory reign will shortly come to an end, and this bunch of incompetent charlatans will not be remembered fondly

A man who has been the cause of Brexit would, if he had any sense of honour, creep away and stay away

As a queer woman, I feel my identity is as important as anyone else’s. Yet where is my place of safety?

Readers should keep an eye open for vote-swapping websites in the run-up to the general election

The Jewish experience, over centuries, has been one of persecution and disregard. This is why Israel is pursuing its destructive policy in Gaza

We need Have I Got News for You and The Last Leg just as we needed Spitting Image in the 1980s – to reassure us that we aren’t all going mad

James Timpson sets the standard that other business owners should look to emulate

Most of us are at odds with her policies and over-zealous remarks, but she is a high achiever who holds herself to exacting standards

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What the world craves now is some slightly more ‘precedented’ politics, says MITCH BENN. I don’t know about you, but I could really use some boredom right now. It’s pretty exhausting living in ‘unprecedented’ times, isn’t it? Every day something else unprecedented befalls us, whether it’s an unprecedented pandemic, an unprecedented level of chaos in the response […]

Joe Biden’s triumph is a source of great celebration, but it also adds to the sadness I feel about the UK’s self-imposed decline, says ALASTAIR CAMPBELL  Sometimes, it is in emotion that deep truth is spoken. Anyone who, like me, was glued to CNN from Tuesday to Saturday last week, will have seen such a moment […]