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The German dream of centrist, stable government has been dashed by geopolitical forces and the cult of balanced budgets, says Paul Taylor of the European Policy Centre

The good news is, your phone isn’t listening to you. But that’s because your doorbell has already sold all your secrets, says tech journalist Victoria Turk

The last time was awful, but now that seems a mere dress rehearsal. From a public health crisis to the end of Nato, the threats are clear, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

On Tuesday night, America had its Brexit moment.

Before David Lammy was the UK’s chief diplomat, he was a passionate opponent of Donald Trump. As a backbench MP in 2019, ahead of Trump’s state visit to Britain, Lammy posted on social media that the then (and soon to be) US president was "deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic" and "no…

It could have been better designed, but Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tweak will help farmers with mud on their boots, says farmer Guy Singh-Watson

The whole horror show seems so predictable now, doesn’t it? Just like it did the last time, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Democrats must learn to speak to voters who don’t believe in the politics of old and aren’t interested in returning to it

The party, increasingly divorced from workers, leaned too much on an activist base instead of a voting base