Here lies Donald Trump.

This week the Prime Minister of Canada attended the annual State of the Union speech in the European parliament and was rewarded with the offer of “associate membership”.

One of my kind readers responded to a recent blog by pointing out that it is easy to say we do not spend enough on defence and we have to find the money from somewhere, but that it is far more difficu...

In 10 days' time, MPs will be summoned to debate the economic impact of Brexit. Let's hope they all have a good read of this...

I was going to write today about Mark Carney and Brussels but I am writing the story for The New World newspaper so you can read it there shortly.

How to deal with the far right, is an issue that the media has totally failed to cope with.

The latest from the enquiry into the complete mishandling of the covid pandemic by the Johnson government makes chilling reading.

We will have to wait until tonight to see what Trump is going to come up with to try to sabotage the mid term elections and secure power for him and his family.

Brexit has finally reached Gibraltar, with the Spanish introducing border checks at the British airport on the Rock rather than at the Spanish border.

The news that Andy Burnham wants to start a boom in council house building is a policy that should have been announced almost 30 years ago.

A decade on since the country voted to Leave the European Union on the 23rd of June 2016, public opinion has shifted decisively away from...

The usual bunch of has beens and fantasists are celebrating the tenth anniversary of Brexit by claiming the only problem is that it was sabotaged by Remain and not “tried properly”.

A graceful and dignified end to a bitterly disappointing premiership.

Our predominantly right-wing news media is a destructive lens which constructs & distorts political reality; so, we must take a step back

We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...

We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...

Last month’s elections have shown just how broken our voting system is. 70 MPs have just supported an amendment demanding a total review of this system, and a change to proportional representation. B...

Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting - frontrunners to take over as PM from Keir Starmer - said Britain's future was as part of the EU - but Kemi Badenoch warned rejoining would be a 'disaster'.

I have so far avoided saying much about the prospects of Sir Kier Starmer.

I see that Reform and the Tories are up in arms about the very idea of paying the EU for the UK to have greater access to the Single Market.

Many, many years ago George Robertson came to give a talk at my university, we invited him when he was a lowly backbencher and I was mightily unimpressed.

So the American Vice President has found time away from a mad war in the Gulf, which he is supposed to be negotiating an end to, to visit Hungary and campaign for Victor Orban.

Julian Petley writes an open letter to the incoming Director-General of the BBC warning him that the right-wing press wish him nothing but ill

YouTube video by Rutger Bregman

Beating everyone at arm wrestling one by one - through tariffs or military threats - does not make you the boss of them all.

The news that expats from the UK will only be able to donate £100,000 a year to any political party is good news, as far as it goes.

Taking money from just about anyone is just the latest example of Reform’s leader following the Trump school of self-enrichment, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Investigation by Alan Rusbridger claims pattern of GB News breaching Ofcom broadcasting rules and becoming mouthpiece for political party.

The Finnish president predicts the U.K. will rejoin the EU, and wants closer integration on defense and trade as Donald Trump rips up the world order.

The ‘proper Thatcherite Conservative’ who Boris Johnson installed on the board has form as an editorial meddler, and the signs are he’s not done yet

MEPs call for EU UK reset efforts to be decisively accelerated in 2026 as Brexit marks ten years and geopolitical pressures reshape European priorities.

It always used to make we laugh the way that Margaret Thatcher used to refer to Sir Winston Churchill as “Winnie”.

The BBC radio show is the perfect illustration of just how unserious we’ve become

I got a little depressed the other day because of a map.

As more and more money and more and more power is concentrated in the hands of a small group of the ultra wealthy, you have to ask yourself, “ How do they think this is going to end?”