Politics

The Incredible Shrinking Influence of Putin’s Russia

Armenia is the latest country to leave Moscow’s orbit

Brexit: A Very British Civil War review — a maddening account of how we got here

Interviews with Boris Johnson, David Cameron, Nigel Farage and others reveal shocking levels of incompetence and chaos

Sam Bankman-Fried applies for a pardon from Trump

The FTX co-founder is serving a 25-year sentence, doled out in 2024.

Netanyahu’s grand strategy is coming apart

The Israeli leader has tried to secure his country by entirely military means. It isn’t working.

Mayor vs. the Monorail.

The mayor of Shelbyville, Indiana, potential home of a proposed $2 billion data center, says he only sees signs opposed to the project “in shitty houses.” As ever, there’s a Simpsons quote for that.

A ‘big bang’ reversal of Brexit is both unrealistic and unnecessary

Going back would create some big new problems but Switzerland provides an alternative model

We must not grant AI agents legal personhood

What kind of sanctions could keep a non-human corporation in check?

The Obama Presidential Center

The $850mn campus aims to revitalise Chicago’s South Side, but stumbles with its monumental centrepiece

Trump says Netanyahu will have ‘no choice’ but to accept a deal with Iran

US president tells FT that he ‘calls the shots’ after urging the Israeli leader not to retaliate against Tehran

Could Nigel Farage’s call for ‘rage’ cost Reform UK the Makerfield by-election?

Latest polling shows Labour’s Andy Burnham pulling away from the rightwing populists, his main challengers

The mayor of Shelbyville, Indiana, says only people who live in ‘shitty houses’ oppose data center

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Democrats roiled by allegations against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner

Political outsider’s campaign is overshadowed by accusations of inappropriate behaviour