In the weeks ahead of tomorrow’s vote, the prime minister’s leading Jewish rivals have been neck-and-neck with his bloc.

The chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to appoint a corruption commissioner to recover £2.6bn lost to fraudsters during the Covid-19 pandemic. There will be millions to retrieve from local ...

It reminds me that Brazil is facing no ordinary election. I begin to fear that the fires will reach my house or be used as a weapon against us, we who are fighting to defend the planet’s largest ...

We don’t throw the word around. But we also understand that fascism has stages and that if you wait until it is totalising, ...

By Sunday, the headlines belonged to the burning town hall in Limoges, the masked mobs and the looted shops. Emmanuel Macron ...

Ten years after Brexit, even Eurosceptics have discovered Brussels’ value ...

The RRS Sir David Attenborough carries scientists, like those from Woods Hole in Massachusetts, not to exploit the Southern Ocean, but to understand and protect it. That transformation was built upon ...

Zack Polanski apparently faces questions about how much council tax he has paid for the houseboat he sometimes lives on. Meanwhile, a veritable tsunami of money is flowing into the coffers of Reform ...

The central character of Alan Hollinghurst’s most recent book, The Sparsholt Affair, is first seen lifting weights. The year is 1940, and weightlifting is seen as something fantastical and alluring: ...

It is a rainy May evening and 13 Israelis have come to a community centre in north London to hear from candidates running in the primaries of a new political party, the Democrats. The outfit is a ...

Whatever the truth about the stories of plots to oust Rishi Sunak, his party is plainly in trouble. The polls disagree about the depth of the hole the Tories are in, but they agree that it has been ...

In 1997, faced with public spending constraints, the incoming Labour administration looked to “partnership” with the private sector for solutions, a policy that was ultimately unsuccessful. Nearly 30 ...