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Sir Keir Starmer came to power pledging to bring order and stability to government after 14 dismal years of Conservative rule, trading on his...
A few days before Christmas, a Chinese ship started its engines in the freezing waters between Denmark and Sweden and sailed off, leaving a global...
When Joe Biden took office as president of the United States, he insisted he was driven to run for the White House by the noble desire to preserve...
It was just another ordinary November day in the life of an ordinary retired couple in an ordinary village in France as they chatted over breakfast...
Thirteen years ago, seven boys sat around in school swigging soft drinks after a game of football while television reports showed the uprisings...
The impassioned debate on assisted suicide last Friday has been widely hailed as a display of Parliament at its best. The discussion was dignified,...
This week sees a five-hour debate in Parliament that could lead to one of the most consequential laws this century when MPs hold a free vote on a...
Four years ago, I was talking to voters in West Virginia when I met a young black woman called Brittney. Since polls showed an 85 per cent lead for...
Olivia Troye is a lifelong Republican who worked as a counter-terrorism adviser in Donald Trump’s administration. She resigned shortly before the...
The image is one for the history books: four ageing white men, sitting stiffly in their suits beneath a Picasso portrait of a perplexed-looking...
If you want to understand why the Conservatives are in such dire straits, consider social care. This is a significant issue for the country when...
Last year, Labour MP Kim Leadbeater spoke passionately in a parliamentary debate on mental health care, complaining about lack of support for...
Boris Johnson is publishing his memoir, timed to coincide with the Conservative Party conference, in his usual attention-seeking manner and written...
Last year Rachel Reeves accepted a gift valued at £330 to attend a concert from the Betting and Gaming Council. This is not unusual: the...
Vladimir Putin is a dismal leader of his country, overseeing a catastrophic military misadventure after crushing his people’s freedoms and...
Wendy Morton is one of those rare beasts: a Conservative MP who survived at the hands of voters in July. Yet she backed Boris Johnson for leader,...
It seems almost strange that it is less than three years since Angela Merkel retired from leading Germany and Europe. The first female chancellor...
In September 2021, as Russian military forces built up on Ukraine’s border before their full-scale invasion, Vladimir Putin spoke to students in...
So the first crisis of Sir Keir Starmer’s time in Downing Street turns out to be a summer rampage of terror and thuggery stoked by the far-right....