Ex-Scottish Labour leader to focus on restoring faith in fact-based politics.

Donald Tusk hails "pro-EU majority" in European Parliament after populists under-perform expectations. / Seeing Britain's botched attempt to leave the European Union has vaccinated other EU countries against euroscepticism, the president of the European Council has said.

Boris Johnson is poised to become prime minister thanks to a small, unrepresentative population of Brexiteer voters bent on destruction.

The rousing music, red-white-and-blue colours and soaring camera angles of this clip seem awfully familiar

Chris is back from Tashkent with a head full of musings. How badly does the EU want the UK to leave? Quite badly, he thinks. Steve sort of agrees. But this week's unicorn chaser is the imminent collapse of the Bannonite populist project on both sides of the Atlantic. Steve sort of disagrees.

Yale History professor Timothy Snyder says some of today's politicians have learned propaganda techniques from twentieth century fascists.

Democracy is a fragile creation, and the Yale professor and historian of fascism Timothy Snyder should know. / His best selling book, ‘On Tyranny’, offers some practical and political advice for resisting authoritarianism. Professor Snyder had the American reader in mind when he wrote it. But can we learn anything from his work?

World View: Far-right populists have quietly shelved their EU exit policies amid Brexit.

Unchecked, unbalanced and channelling an unsavoury populism, a prime minister that I’ve helped to keep in check in the courts could soon be free to do whatever he pleases

When great powers fail, New Zealand and other small states must organise to protect their interests, Robert G. Patman writes.

Democrat candidate does not feel ‘particularly warm’ towards Brexiteers, says former chancellor.

PM urged to recognise pursuit of no-deal Brexit would be regarded as serious error by US.

The former prime minister warned that “complacency” and “nostalgia” are the routes to a national decline and that the UK’s global influence has relied upon history, fortified by membership of the EU and close ties to the US.

In what follows, a group of leading social scientists explore these themes, explaining what has happened in the past, the situation the UK finds itself in now, and the issues that might confront us going forward. The collection is intended as a guide to the big questions confronting the country in the years to come.

When thinking about what I might about say in this lecture it occurred to me that it would be appropriate to look at parliaments and sovereignty, which are hugely important concepts when it comes to understanding Euroscepticism and Britain’s place in the European Union (EU).

It is a tough path to challenge populism and confront the sham of the Brexit pushers. Disproving false claims takes time, patience, and lots of efforts.

Amid withering criticism of project from likes of Ken Clarke, MoD learns it may not have to pay whole bill.

The London bureau chief for Germany’s public broadcaster reflects on Britain’s government.

Analysts in Europe say Britain committed “Anglo-Saxon suicide” when it voted for Brexit.

Political divisions across the world are deeper than at any time in the last 50 years, a new St Andrews University-led study has found.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has faced calls for his resignation over the holding of parties at Number 10 Downing Street during lockdown. Andrew Ryder argues the scandal runs much deeper than the work culture at the heart of government or Boris Johnson’s personal failings. It is emblematic of a decline in public standards that has sharply escalated since the Brexit referendum.

A couple of points are worth observing already. Nearly six years on from the Leave vote, the supposed opportunities of Brexit remain entirely conspicuous by their absence. And ramping up the rhetoric by claiming “immense opportunity” does not change this reality.

Under current PM, government is not Conservative but English Nationalist, says Chris Patten.