The Prime Minister, a classic of Victorian political fiction, is 150 years old. But what can it teach us about governing today?

The political scientist’s memoir In the Realm of the Last Man explains why liberal democracy is losing ground to authoritarians

An awful realisation dawned on Josh Glancy as he watched footage of the flash floods caused by a glacier collapse on the Nepal-Tibet border

The Tory former home secretary aims to challenge Labour’s Sir Sadiq Khan, who is in his third term running the capital

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The prime minister says he’s focused on bigger issues than Peter Mandelson or calls for his resignation. Most Labour MPs quietly back me, he tells Josh Glancy

Events are pushing Britain and the EU together. But it’s a painful and expensive process

British Jews turning their anger on a vituperative Guardian column felt like anxiety looking for somewhere safe to land

In an era where nations simply “do things”, courage and recklessness look perilously alike

Theodor Meron, still going strong at 95, escaped the Nazis with his father and became a serious force in international law, helping to found the ICC

All this Trump whispering and swallowed pride will count for little unless the PM can explain the sacrifices that lie ahead

From schools to courts to the economy, the impacts of the pandemic are everywhere, and yet barely mentioned. Painful as it is, we must confront them

The chancellor took over at the Treasury promising to turn Britain around — after 16 months of missteps and misfortune she doesn’t look so clever

Even when this war somehow ends and takes the temperature of life down a few degrees, the long-term trends in this country and elsewhere are all heading the wrong way, writes Josh Glancy

Even when this war somehow ends and takes the temperature of life down a few degrees, the long-term trends in this country and elsewhere are all heading the wrong way, writes Josh Glancy

The prime minister once described his pragmatism with pride. Now the absence of clear vision is becoming existential

Labour MPs had hoped he’d take the fight to Nigel Farage by now. But here comes the budget … and, hanging over everything, the small boats crisis

The capital of the Caribbean nation of Haiti is now at the mercy of gangs bent on kidnap, rape and murder. Louise Callaghan meets their victims — and confronts a warlord

Labour MPs had hoped he’d take the fight to Nigel Farage by now. But here comes the budget … and, hanging over everything, the small boats crisis

The city state has been scandalised by a battle between the two sons of Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore. One brother has fled to the UK for his and his wife’s safety. The source of the r...

A year into the job and foundering in the polls, can the prime minister convince an impatient electorate to stick with his steady approach to fixing Britain? Josh Glancy meets him in No 10, Ipswich an...

Time, at last, to write about Agnes.

Ukraine’s destruction of expensive warplanes with simple flying bombs was Russia’s Pearl Harbor moment. The technology is changing faster than you think

Students are using AI to cheat and professors are struggling to keep up. If an AI can do all the research and writing, what is the point of a degree?

The economist, winner of a Nobel memorial prize, says rejecting America’s trade war is about far more than business and the state of the stock market

The conservative thinker Andrew Sullivan backs Trump’s sentiment on immigration and diversity but says his second term is already challenging the very essence of American democracy

The US president is trashing many of our deeply held assumptions. It gives us a chance to define who we are

Gaza has exposed painful truths. But amid rising tensions, the path forward lies in refusing to abandon dialogue – even when it seems futile and fraught

Gaza has exposed painful truths. But amid rising tensions, the path forward lies in refusing to abandon dialogue – even when it seems futile and fraught

Russian sensors trying to track nuclear submarines have been found in a campaign of ‘greyzone’ warfare that also targets our energy and internet. Even oligarchs’ superyachts are in on it

Charlotte Ivers falls for a quintessentially British success story: posh chicken wings

Careless People author and former Meta director Sarah Wynn-Williams reveals what it was like ‘babysitting’ her boss

The diarist’s latest flirtation, Mr Wallaker, is not just any fictional character — he was based on a Sunday Times writer’s former history master

The Trump-Musk project? ‘Basically all great’. Badenoch? ‘Complete useless dud’. Britain’s disruptor in chief doesn’t answer questions often, but when he does…