Burnham's plans are very, very good for Manchester

To the parties of opposition, about whom some rather interesting stories have emerged. The Financial Times has reported today that Nigel Farage has told his donors that he expects Reform UK to do an…

Keir Starmer is no centrist. He has turned out to be one of the most divisive political leaders of modern times.

Frustration is widespread among the Lords’ lobby folder and it is unlikely to dissipate over the summer.

Golf is another front in Trump’s campaign to bend the world to his will.

The PM’s readiness to change course will inevitably invite further challenges.

The UK and Europe have been sidelined during America’s latest adventure in the Middle East, perhaps to the relief of all parties.

This year’s meeting of the world’s richest democratic nations will achieve little.

Blistering analysis by outgoing chief concludes chancellor likely to end up ‘gnat’s whisker’ away from tax rises

The long-running TV sitcom made American and British audiences think through the implications of the Vietnam war. No equivalent programme today entertains so constructively.

The possibility that the US may be turning into an unreliable ally is unwritten, though it must surely be the strongest argument for increasing Britain's security capability.

Yentob’s passing feels like the closing of an era. These days, arts documentaries are most likely to be found on subscription channels. There are no mainstream cultural programmes on the BBC and ITV.

While pollsters suggests a majority favours closer relationships with Europe, the British public can see that rejoining the EU is a dead issue and it has moved on.

Both campaigns share prescriptive sensitivity over language and risk prioritising the rights of a small minority.

The government has hedged itself in and ruled out options.

Donald Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz is leaving his role, according to reports. Waltz added a journalist to a Signal chat with Trump officials about military plans and admitted the leak...

Starmer, much like his predecessor, has played his ace of a State Visit invitation.

A ban on bringing meat and cheese home from Europe is said to be designed to protect British livestock, but is another reminder of the bureaucratic botheration hamstringing the economy since Brexit, s...

Rollercoasters are springing up all round, literally and metaphorically.

After destabilising the whole US economy and starting a trade war against China, just how good a deal-maker is Donald Trump?

Trump is a self-mythologising social climber, just like Gatsby. He and his leading MAGA supporters also have much in common with Gatsby’s antithesis, the brutal Tom Buchanan.

France and Europe need effective leadership from a French president - the unnecessary judicial suspension of Marine Le Pen's candidacy has simply generated uncertainty for both her friends and foes.

Trump could resort to the same tactic as Putin to get round his presidential term limit.

There are astonishing reports that the King might invite the US to become an associate member of the Commonwealth - but it is not up to the King or the UK government. Still, stranger things have happe...

Trump takes a proprietorial view of his own image. He sells pictures of himself which he likes and spurns those he does not like, even if it means offending his own supporters.

Donald Trump's second term has begun with him tearing up the established rules-based order in the West in pursuit of his own foreign policy. This includes wanting to take control of Greenland and the ...

The collision between Trump’s impulsiveness and Starmer’s caution has had the bonus effect of creating new options for the Labour government.

The return of Trump to the White House is tearing up relationships between old allies and Ireland faces some big questions about how to be safe in a more dangerous world.

A film about choosing a new pope was not an obvious Hollywood hit.

A Ukrainian government source tells Sky News that Kyiv has agreed the terms of a minerals deal with the US. Meanwhile, the Kremlin contradicts Donald Trump's claims about European peacekeepers in Ukra...

Populist politicians can’t stray from public opinion on something as vital as national security

The challenges of the UK-US special relationship are not new. As Adam Boulton explains, it's always been up and down for prime ministers looking to charm presidents.