Politics

The militant fighters running Afghanistan have shut down the heroin trade – but what happens to drugs in Europe as a result could be a disaster

Wales and Scotland say they are missing out on hundreds of millions in funding from not being part of the EU

Tory in-fighting shows no signs of halting as Patel takes aim at her successor’s plans to house asylum seekers within spitting distance from her own constituency

The home secretary seems intent on some sort of grotesque pogrom-as-payback

The former prime minister’s right-hand man was blamed for losing the 2017 election. So why is his stock rising?

Brexit has returned Britain to a black-and-white past. Arguments of 70 years ago must now be won again

While I’m up in that little bubble universe that is Edinburgh during the Festival Fringe (Underbelly, Bristo Square every day at 4pm, thanks for asking), I’ve come up with this rather pleasing little sitcom parody. Hope it – hey! – floats your boat…

Across Ukraine, people have given up their former lives to become soldiers. Back home, their families listen for news from the front

Elevating Lee Anderson to deputy chairman and giving him carte blanche to stir up racism is a huge mistake by Rishi Sunak

The government's anti-immigration rhetoric needs reversing or the country's economy will continue to suffer

Trump has made a career out of redesigning reality to suit him

Brexit is more than enough for any political generation. But, the worst is yet to come

More than a quarter support a fresh vote as soon as the end of this year

A botched character assassination could be a source of embarrassment to the Conservatives and their friends in the media

Some say the US is in a superpower death spiral like the one that hit post-empire Britain. The signs of decline are there – but so are some green shoots

A stopgap solution without a peace treaty will only create conditions for future conflict

Waiting lists, immigration, the economy… with this lot, it is always someone else's fault

But, there are ways to recoup the huge cost to taxpayers

The Tories are losing their loyalists and they’re running straight into Labour’s arms

The ‘brightest and best’ have failed to arrive. What could have put them off?

The government wants to give the impression that it has thought up a policy – but it hasn’t. Not really

Industry hit with a blow as government halts trial of a system designed to limit paperwork

Tory MP Tobias Ellwood says both his party and Labour are being dishonest over the disaster of Brexit

Rishi Sunak sees threatening to leave the European Convention on Human Rights as an opportunity to replay the old tunes. It is a mistake

The Bibby Stockholm is branded an empty gesture to fix a crisis of the government’s own making

Think tank says Britain faces recession next year and five more years of stagflation

Handshakes alone won't cut it in a world where major security threats, from war to cybersecurity, are global

If Brexit was going well, we would never hear the end of it. Instead, there's an omertà on the subject

With their Rwanda project in doubt, the Tories went for Plan B. Now they need a Plan C

The Conservative deputy chair has denied ever criticising MPs' second jobs, despite the evidence being there for all to see

The UK's determination to lock people up has already created an overflowing prison system. The prime minister's plans will only make matters worse