Can Starmer avoid the Farage trap?
Previous prime ministers have tried to deal with Farage by pandering to his ideas, and it’s led to disaster. Starmer must avoid the same fate
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Labour’s right wing takeover
Transfixed by the culture wars, the government’s immigration policy is being driven by Labour’s right wing – it’s going to blow up in their faces
Laura Loomer, the real first lady
Loomer, rumoured to be Donald Trump’s girlfriend, is a hardcore right wing extremist. It’s a shame she’s also one of the most influential people in America
The ghosts of Downing Street
If Keir Starmer learns from the mistakes made by Jim Callaghan and Gordon Brown, he can navigate a successful course through stormy economic waters
Bring back office culture!
Working from home has its benefits. But a whole generation of people who once would have learned on the job now have no one around to learn from
Putin’s vanishing prisoners
Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians have simply disappeared into Putin’s new gulag. No one knows whether they’re alive or dead
On the Arctic at least, Trump is right
Russia and China’s superiority in the ‘High North’ could allow them to sever a key supply route between America and Europe
Britain has finally become a European country
With the collapse of the two main parties, the rise of populism and an obsession with immigration, the UK now looks more continental than ever
Farage’s net zero policy would be a disaster
Reform are winning by offering wrong answers to real problems. Switching off the booming green economy is worse than Brexit
Labour’s Reform copycat act has backfired
Following Farage on immigration while cutting money from OAPs and the disabled has been a disaster
How the Tory party can survive
Badenoch is receiving extensive media training in an attempt to soften her image. But her image is not the problem
Ukraine’s defiance is rarer than minerals
The most egregious demands from the US-Ukraine minerals deal’s first draft have gone. But, in Kyiv, there are fears that it still offers no concrete security guarantees
Both Labour and the Tories should be terrified
Yesterday’s vote shows that the Reform party has now passed a crucial tipping point
If Brexit is so unpopular, why is Farage winning?
Labour are unwilling to attack the Reform leader’s greatest weakness
PMQs review: Keir Starmer actually makes a good joke shock
It has taken 3,646 days since he became an MP, but Keir Starmer today made an actual funny joke at Prime Minister’s Questions
The slow death of local news
Proper reporting is fading out as papers shrink or fold. Who will hold the powerful to account?
The Trump who cried wolf on Wall Street
Donald Trump swore he would face down the world – then blinked first. His aura is damaged forever
The great Trump meltdown
Is it too much to hope that, eventually, Trump’s constant lying and backtracking will be enough to bring down his administration?
How Merz can build his coalition
Scholz’s successor will exceed expectations – but only as the bar for the chancellor-designate has been set so low
Argentina’s lithium wars
President Milei is selling out his own country and its indigenous people along with it
Brexit is a killer
The diagnosis for cancer patients and researchers has got considerably worse since we left the EU. Does the government have the courage to act?
What the hell happened to Neil Oliver?
One minute he was the king of cosy Sunday night TV, the next he was on GB News ranting about Covid-creating elites and turbo cancer. What went wrong?
Goodbye Mr Globalism
Klaus Schwab, the man who founded the Davos summit, had a vision for the world. But things haven’t turned out the way he wanted
Letters: After that ruling, let’s restore respect
Most of us are happy to live and let live, but objected to being told that we were bigots, transphobes or Nazis
Lie of the week: Trump and Columbus Day
Tim Bradford’s Cartoon: Donald Trump’s guide to clothes
Inside the minds of extremists
The media often describes terrorists as manifestations of evil, or as zombie-like products of indoctrination, but we urgently need a better account than that
Should Labour copy Carney’s Trump strategy?
Despite the Canadian PM’s stunning win, it does not follow that being tough with the US will be good for Starmer or Britain
The unwanted return of Nick Clegg
The former deputy PM wants you to listen to his big ideas about the EU. But does anyone care?
Welcome home to Gilead
In a world reordered by Trump, The Handmaid’s Tale is now more relevant than Nineteen Eighty-Four
We can’t trust Trump, so prioritising an EU trade deal is a no-brainer
A massive 46% of our exports and imports are via Europe – so why not make that easier?
The murder of Virginia Giuffre
Society fails survivors of child sexual exploitation over and over
Meeting fascists in the graveyard
Spain is still mourning its Civil War dead. But not everyone sees the nation’s history in quite the same way
Gen Z’s problems are all our fault
To understand why they are finding it so difficult to become adults, we need to look at where we all went wrong
Who makes the Pope’s coffin?
Deep inside the Vatican, in a highly secret location, a group of carpenters were tasked with creating a very special casket
The war against youth mobility is embarrassing
Farage and Badenoch are making fools of themselves over a completely benign scheme
Can Starmer sell Britain on the Brexit reset summit deal?
Will a focus on cheaper food and energy be enough to drown out complaints about sovereignty and fishing rights – especially when the PM struggles to communicate?
Steve Witkoff, the world’s worst diplomat
He is a life-long property developer. So how the hell did he end up as America’s top international negotiator, on everything from Ukraine to the Iran nuclear deal?
Yes, the UK-EU defence pact risk is about fish
The UK and EU are keen on a defence and security pact, but there is a catch – fish. Tensions over who controls Europe’s waters go back hundreds of years
PMQs: Shock as Badenoch achieves the unthinkable
The leader of the Conservative Party today managed a score draw against the prime minister at their weekly confrontation. Did Parliament swoon in admiration? Not quite
Facebook’s free speech battle
The oversight board Mark Zuckerberg set up has criticised him, and ruled that anti-Muslim content should be removed. Will he now silence them?
Letters: It will take real Labour to beat Reform
The party must act: a wealth tax, rejoin the EU, bring in proportional representation. In other words, start behaving like a Labour government
The fall of Saigon, 50 years on
Half a century ago, a humiliated America scrambled out of a losing war. But parallels with Ukraine show little has changed
How populism gives youth wings
Bitter at the old politics, young Germans saw the far-right AfD as a revitalising tonic. How can the left get that taste out of their mouths?
Why Tory donors are kebabbing Badenoch
With the local elections just days away, the Conservatives simply do not look like a promising investment
Britain needs a new national story
This could be the only thing that could unite a nation divided on all fronts
Why you should visit Heligoland
Eighty years ago, the island was nearly wiped off the map. Today it relies on wind-farm crews more than tourists
Bolivia, where a former president is on the run
Ever since his exile in 2019, Evo Morales has been lining up a return to power and now he’s summoned his supporters
The downside of living the Italian dream
Expats must learn that smaller rural Italian communities run on gossip
Who will blink in Birmingham’s battle over waste?
Councillors can no longer escape the mess and workers seem intent on drawing this out. Meanwhile, the city is paying the price