As Trump and Putin try to unpick agreements on nuclear weapons that have helped keep the world safe, IAN WALKER looks back at the moment the world first stepped back from the abyss

Michael White says the home secretary's overreaction to the migrant drama at Dover was too tempting for a vote-hungry politician to resist

They be only modest, but let's take them while we can, says MICHAEL WHITE

Being loud and brash can go too far, but it is necessary when you're pushing against established beliefs, writes ALASTAIR CAMPBELL.

As a leader, the German chancellor provided the moral compass for a continent, says ZOE WILLIAMS. We will all miss her

Michael White on the increasingly hopeless manoeuvres from all sides as they realise the finish line is near.

MICHAEL WHITE on the looming conclusion for Brexit's ring a ring o'roses and why we're all about to fall down

Hillary Clinton says she cannot understand why the press and political establishment are "so reluctant to call out what the Russians have been doing".

The royal family is a rock - and it has some pretty unsavoury things beneath it. But it is changing and the Duchess of Sussex is helping achieve that

ANDREW ADONIS on our Brexit sovereignty in action, and our moral withdrawal from Europe.

Sir Elton John has launched a blistering attack on Brexit and the "completely ridiculous" promises made by Leavers.

Don't let the Brexit vandals take control of our politics, writes Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.

Despite his attempts to escape the real world, Bonnie Greer says Donald Trump is in for a shock.

Two years on from the referendum, what do we now know about Brexit? Professor AC GRAYLING explores the facts and reveals what must happen to stop the UK crashing out of the EU.

A quick puzzle for you and your readers... the following quote belongs to who?

We cannot abandon our continent and responsibility for its defence and properity says ANDREW ADONIS

As the World Cup gets underway, IAN WALKER asks why Russia, a country responsible for such great art, has produced such terrible leaders.

Millionaire Brexiteer Arron Banks walked out of a committee hearing into fake news claiming he did not want to be late for lunch.

The self-proclaimed 'bad boy of Brexit' Arron Banks has been accused of conducting a series of meetings with Russian officials.

MICHAEL WHITE is on the hunt for solutions as Europe prepares for its showdown summit.

I've just had ten days in France and North Italy. As I was wearing my EU/UK badge, I got Brexit chat - three types.

Britain's departure from the EU has sparked enough anger at home. But, as Alastair Campbell writes, Brexit is giving our foreign friends sleepless nights as well.

With Brexit negotiations due to come to a close this year, Michael White suggests that its time for the characters to step aside and the real politicians to step up

Three decades after the death of Kim Philby, perhaps Britain's most notorious spy, CHARLIE CONNELLY ponders the changing nature of espionage

In a speech to think tank Progress our editor-at-large lays into Jeremy Corbyn and the failures of the Labour Party

Emmanuel Macron's recent visit to the White House gave body language analysts plenty to talk about and led many to draw comparisons with Theresa May's 2017 trip.

The remarkable rise of Italy's Five Star Movement ​is inspiring copycats elsewhere in Europe. But, as HANNAH ROBERTS explains, its innovative, technological strategy masks a movement without a soul

An army of Russian internet bots mounted a social media campaign backing Labour in the weeks before last year's election, it has been claimed.

"If you thought the Ides of March have been bad enough, beware the Ides of May" - the private words of one senior Trump-sceptic Republican senator with a passion for Shakespeare and a profound fear that all is not destined to end well.

MICHAEL WHITE on the transitional deal and the problems that still remain over the Irish border