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THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The PM is struggling to atone for his colossal misjudgement in appointing Peter Mandelson, but his bigger problem is that the country has simply stopped listening to him

Editorial: The prime minister has said sorry for believing Peter Mandelson’s lies – but the Epstein connection should have been disqualification enough

In my mind, Nigella Lawson should already be spending her life where random people just prepare delicious things for her to have bites of

The president’s policies have weakened the US’s competitive position and undermined its alliances to China’s advantage

Who cares about the days getting longer when they are so rainy and dull, writes Adrian Chiles

Since the 70s, China has turned around its economy – these are the lessons Starmer must take note of, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

At a party event in a school hall in Lewisham, people told me how disillusionment with Labour has led to this moment, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

In 1976, at the height of the Emergency, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi froze delimitation – the redrawing of parliamentary and assembly constituencies – effectively locking India’s political map in place. The freeze, meant to last until 2001, outlived her government. But decades later, the Narendra Modi government seems determined to…

Functional democracies like to assume their institutions are like solid parents. Then one day, those institutions turn out to be estranged relatives.