Europe
Is the UK heading towards a US-style Supreme Court?
Brits should get used to the phrase ‘judicial activism’ because we are going to be hearing a lot more of it
Jacques Chirac leaves behind a limited legacy
The French president had a checkered and contradictory political career
‘Cameron was a bloody good prime minister’: Michael Gove interviewed
The no-deal minister on Boris, a second referendum and an ‘inevitable’ election
Robert Hardman: My private encounter with David Cameron and the Queen
The appetite for all things royal seems insatiable
Justin Trudeau is not a racist – but he is a fool
The sense that he is a puerile fraud has shaken up the electoral calculus
The torture chamber: how opposition politicians plan to humiliate Boris Johnson
Without a Tory majority, the British prime minister’s tormentors are the ones holding the power
Boris Johnson’s route to election success
Boris will pitch himself as the man determined to deliver Brexit regardless of the obstacles put in his way
The British Supreme Court’s decision is a constitutional outrage
Brexit has exposed huge cracks in the UK constitution which urgently need fixing
Does Norway have a far-right problem?
If all white men resent their marginalization in Norwegian society, why do only a tiny fraction of them become white supremacists?
The EU has failed again to strike a free trade deal
Why the UK should follow the Chilean model
I’m sorry because I failed: An interview with David Cameron
The former British PM on the referendum, failure and the physics of politics
Judgment day: the danger of courts taking over British politics
Over-mighty judges are bad for democracy
David Cameron is more authentic than Boris Johnson
The former PM never quite shook off the burden of privilege
Why there’s still a chance of a Brexit deal
The mood appears to be shifting in key European capitals
Johnson and Juncker agree to step up talks – but no backstop solution proposed
The British government believes it has one shot to present concrete proposals to Brussels
The Liberal Democrats are the real Brexit extremists
If you want to cancel the votes of millions of people, you are not a moderate
Why the UK hasn’t presented any specific backstop proposal to the EU
The Brexit secretary says the EU need to adjust their position on checks on Ireland
Pericles for PM: Boris should forget Augustus and stay focused on his hero
Pericles’s vision was that of a highly civilized man who loved his people
Boris has more in common with Corbyn than he thinks
Both stand on an anti-politics, anti-establishment platform
Katharine Gun: the spy who tried to stop the Iraq war
As a young translator at GCHQ, she leaked a secret email
Will turning the Tories into the pro-Leave party pay off for Boris?
Johnson wanted an October election because it offered both a way out of the Brexit impasse and fitted with his political strategy
George Osborne: I tried to swap jobs with William Hague
My children have the measure of our prime minister
Britain’s political system is broken. America’s isn’t
The people put Trump in power. Best, then, that the people oust him
The British rebel alliance has taken control of Brexit. What happens next?
The rebels’ separate party allegiances mean that in a snap election they will be at loggerheads
The legal war of attrition against Brexit
We are evolving a system of government in which it is money and judicial opinion which ultimately matters
