Politics

We need more great oratory in Westminster, not less

Globalisation is failing and it's taking Britain's Brexit down with it

The next government needs to eschew the embarrassing "world-beating" rhetoric and acknowledge that the UK must modernise

The Republicans' campaign to take down the president will be short-lived

Rishi Sunak appears confident that the Conservatives will win the next election. What other bizarre circumstances does the PM envision arising?

We lack conclusive evidence about aliens, but this won't deter the believers

The country's ghost villages deserve to be reinvented for modern use

If we cannot find the courage to put the patient ahead of the guidelines, our healthcare system will do more harm harm than good

Thanks to his Invictus Games, traumatised German soldiers have been brought, rightly, into the limelight

The cost-of-living crisis and Brexit are pushing young people out of the UK – especially those originally from mainland Europe

Ivo Josipović, Croatia’s former president and self-confessed Beatles obsessive, has composed his own opera about the murder of John Lennon

Support for the movement may have dwindled from previous years, but could this be a pivotal moment for Catalans?

The story of “Wembley of Turkey” goes far back into the Byzantine era

Joining an outer tier is likely to reopen old battles over freedom of movement

This moment is about the women who had the courage to come forward

The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

Keir Starmer wants “page-by-page” changes, but Brussels is reluctant to rework a deal that gives it trade advantages

Meanwhile, the elite in Westminster have been lying, fingers crossed behind their backs

My generation is bearing the brunt of this terrible political blunder

Brexit woke us up, but now we are ready for a new European dawn

The government can continue to stick plasters over Brexit, but the damage it has done to Britons abroad is undeniable

She wrecked the country in days, but the deranged Tory right will still give her ideas another go

Putin’s regime has introduced ideologically driven cultural policies intended to shape a new, virtuous Russian citizen for the future

Back then, we turned away boats and set up camps - so what has changed?

The Commission president's state of the union speech saw her press for expansion for the union’s own good

What’s bad for the west is good for the Kremlin – and the fringe elements in the current government proved this

In an exclusive extract from his latest book, Rory Stewart describes how his path to government ended in Liz Truss’s office

London’s school-run traffic is reminiscent of a Tory government that takes a long time to get nowhere

It’s hard to accept that women today have fewer rights than when Billie Jean King took on Bobby Riggs 50 years ago

Is the Labour leader ready to step up to the plate and turn Britain into a modern, forward-thinking nation?

A Labour government will need money so that vital public services don’t fall through the cracks