The Donald laps it up as Nato leaders compete to shower him with sycophancy Trump is actively indulged by prime ministers whose flattery is beginning to sound like they genuinely believe it The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2025
Cross-party body seeks to tackle divisions in wake of 2024 summer riots Co-chairman and former community secretary Sir Sajid Javid said successive governments had treated social cohesion as a ‘second-tier issue’. Evening Standard · Jun 24, 2025
‘They feel betrayed’: how Reform UK is targeting votes in Britain’s manufacturing heartlands In the first in a series, the Guardian maps out the rise in support for Farage and how parties are targeting the UK’s deindustrialised areas The Guardian - UK · Jun 21, 2025
Voices: Readers have their say on reversing Brexit – from rejoining EU ‘tomorrow’ to ‘letting more time pass’ YOUR VIEWS: Our community largely agrees that Brexit was a mistake, but whether the UK should rejoin the EU remains deeply debated, with some calling it ‘a pipe dream’ as others admit they’d ‘vote to rejoin tomorrow’ The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2025
The Guardian view on restoring trust in politics: Labour must not soft-pedal on standards reform Editorial: Sir John Major has shown the urgency that Sir Keir Starmer needs to emulate if public anger is to be reversed The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2025
Most Britons want to be back in the EU Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the Conservative Party all blamed by voters who think Brexit has been a failure The Independent UK · Jun 19, 2025
OPINION - Simon Case should pipe down — people like him are ruining Britain Just months after stepping down from the most powerful job in Whitehall, Simon Case is building a public profile warning of doom and gloom across the world. Is it right that top civil servants take sides and scare the public after leaving office? And if he cares so much now,… Evening Standard · Jun 19, 2025
HS2: a complete failure by the British state and its politicians There have been many chances to avert this ‘appalling mess’, but, fuelled by political puff and short-termism, the project has become a farce The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2025
HS2: 16 years of high hopes, bruising reality and burgeoning costs As the government announces a further delay, here are key moments in the troubled project’s history so far The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2025
What Elon Musk wore to the White House foreshadowed his downfall The sloppy sartorial style of political insiders, from Musk to Dominic Cummings, reveals who has the privilege to be scruffy – but it may also signal their undoing The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2025
Boris Johnson gets hands-on with dinosaur poo as Jurassic World experience launches in London The former Prime Minister attended the immersive event with his wife, Carrie, and their children — their first public outing since welcoming their fourth child in May Evening Standard · Jun 10, 2025
Britain’s voters can’t resist a messy drama. How fortunate for Nigel Farage and Reform Former party chair Zia Yusuf was out – then he was back in. But the chaos won’t dent the party’s poll ratings one tiny bit, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde The Guardian - UK · Jun 10, 2025
British Netflix series Adolescence to be shown in French schools, says minister of education The hit British series Adolescence will be used as a teaching tool in French schools, according to French Minister of Education Élisabeth Borne. Euronews · Jun 9, 2025
Five years since Colston fell, there have been setbacks – but those who demanded race equality have not gone away When the enslaver’s statue was torn down in Bristol, it signified hope. Now the government must harness that to bring about real change, says Operation Black Vote co-founder Simon Woolley The Guardian - UK · Jun 7, 2025
The Independent UK · Jun 6, 2025 A psychologist’s take on why the Musk-Trump relationship is breaking down ANALYSIS: The two alpha males were always used to getting their own way, writes Geoff Beattie
The Conversation · Jun 6, 2025 Why the Musk and Trump relationship is breaking down – a psychologist explains It is not a good break-up. These were always two big beasts used to getting their own way. Two alpha males, if you like the evolutionary metaphor, trying to get along. And now the Donald Trump and Elon Musk relationship is in meltdown.
The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2025 Politics can destroy relationships – just ask Sarah Vine and Michael Gove In her memoir, Vine pins the downfall of her marriage on Brexit. But the finer details tell a story we might all be familiar with, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2025 Why is defence such a hard sell? The same reason Starmer is struggling in the polls Decades of failures have left liberal democratic governments unable to command public confidence when it really matters, writes Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
Evening Standard · Jun 4, 2025 No Madame Tussauds waxwork for Starmer over fears he will become 'irrelevant' despite replicas for other PMs Attraction currently has no plans to make a figure of the prime minister, a spokesperson for the museum said
The Guardian - UK · Jun 3, 2025 Destroying our natural wealth makes us poorer in every sense of the word Partha Dasgupta’s landmark study provided way to put a value on nature – but many fear report has been sidelined
Evening Standard · Jun 2, 2025 Leaked emails and fallouts with the Camerons: the biggest revelations from Sarah Vine's new political memoir Run-ins with Jeremy Clarkson, partying in Ibiza and death threats in the post — Sarah Vine’s new memoir is full of details about life on the frontline of politics
Evening Standard · Jun 2, 2025 OPINION - Is London really a lost cause for the Tories? Today, the electoral path to the next Tory government (if there is one) is narrower than ever. Thanks to the rise of Reform UK and the prospect of a structural split in the right-wing vote. Yet whilst most commentary has focused on Nigel Farage’s success in the so-called Red Wall,…
The Independent UK · Jun 2, 2025 Voices: Calling David Cameron a ‘man baby’ for resigning over Brexit is childish COMMENT: The personal barbs in a new, behind-the-scenes memoir offer a fittingly pathetic caricature of the Conservatives’ big beasts, says Sean O’Grady – they are also a reminder of how the party is the biggest Brexit loser of all
The Independent UK · May 31, 2025 Voices: Robert Jenrick’s TfL stunt reminds us how simple politics can be COMMENT: ‘Do you want to go back and pay like everybody else?’ Jenrick’s public transport vigilante video conveyed a brilliantly effective message – and was another example of how successful political stunts can be, writes John Rentoul
The Guardian - UK · May 30, 2025 It’s easy to dismiss Robert Jenrick’s fare-dodging stunt. But he understands something Keir Starmer doesn’t The shadow justice secretary is eyeing Kemi Badenoch’s job – but he’s released a video that highlights a weakness in our technocratic PM, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland