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The marriage of the son of Asia’s richest businessman, Mukesh Ambani, takes place over the weekend with guests including Kim Kardashian, Tony Blair and Mark Zuckerberg

Raw politics and national interests will always triumph, but there is a basis for new Labour PM to work well with Ireland and Europe

Comments by ally of Rishi Sunak come as Sun newspaper tells readers to back Keir Starmer on Thursday

The judgments of 15 writers on an eventful run of Conservative governments are nearly always brutal

Self-inflicted economic, diplomatic and strategic damage will be blamed on Rishi Sunak by Tory media and not on Michael Gove, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss or the Brexit-cheerleading media itself

The last best hope against populism is to expose it to government

As Trump and Johnson show us, relatability is a juvenile value in politics, and a hollow aspiration

Americans are turning against trade, and the government should have anticipated it before Brexit

The UK’s former prime minister effervescent at a lunch in Westminster this week

Gerard Lyons was once a contender for governor of the Bank of England. Now he wants it overhauled

Hardly a life-size Stonehenge replica á la Spinal Tap, is it?

It is true she was a very bad prime minister. But it’s also true she was never given a proper try. She was too weird, maybe she didn’t have enough friends, her ideas were too radical

Four years on from UK’s official departure from the EU, the Irish economy is relatively untrammelled by the new arrangements

Ireland is going through a period of transition. How Simon Harris navigates the role of Taoiseach will be a test of what the future holds

Tories had never seen a politician pursuing Ireland’s interest at Britain’s cost. No wonder they despised him

Weak central government that fails to deliver is making the nationalist case in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland stronger

Varadkar’s inability to develop a relationship with British prime minister Theresa May marked a low point

On this island, the Irish flag and the Union Jack will have to grow more comfortable in each other’s company

March 3rd-8th: From royal drama Mary & George to Imelda May on WB Yeats’s forgotten sisters

Insightful analysis of uncertainty of United Kingdom’s future under the pressures of devolution, inequality, regional dissatisfaction and Brexit

As immigration creeps up the opinion polls, we would do well to pay attention

Ireland’s own inquiry into pandemic is already two years behind UK inquiry, which has been called ‘a spectacle of hysteria, name-calling and trivialities’

Russian embassy denies involvement in hoax video call

In the News podcast: former British PM ducks and dives in the face of damning questions

Former prime minister tells inquiry he ‘had to challenge the consensus’ in meetings

The former prime minister gave the first of a scheduled two days of evidence at the inquiry in west London

Former prime minister says he and his advisers felt bewildered and frazzled at outbreak of pandemic

Former British prime minister Boris Johnson faces first of two days of questioning over his handling of the Covid pandemic

Hancock says Britain should have locked down at the start of March 2020, three weeks earlier than it did, and that he now realises this would have saved 90% of lives lost in first wave

The former BBC journalist on working in Belfast in the 1970s, why unionist pessimism is justified, and the lack of ‘good chaps’ in Westminster

French politician says British ministers did not know the consequences of leaving the bloc

Party hopes to resurrect fortunes by bringing former PM David Cameron back but its policy positions are alienating younger voters

Braverman is the latest in a long line of mediocre-to-really-terrible women in the Tory Party

Former British PM wanted to demonstrate early in pandemic that Covid-19 did not pose threat to public, adviser says

Former Daily Telegraph editor had been in the running to bid for British broadsheet

Planet Business: Helen MacNamara’s Covid testimony, We Work’s imminent bankruptcy and invitees to Bletchley Park

LBC broadcaster on what ails his native country, his faith in youth and why he won’t be tracking down his Irish biological mother

The DJ, producer and sountrack composer is releasing his first solo album for 15 years. He’d also like to release the songs he made with the late singer

The inquiry shines an unflattering light on the failure to move more swiftly and effectively in the early days of the pandemic

Former PM’s adviser Dominic Cumming says ‘dysfunctional system’ led vulnerable to be ‘appallingly neglected’ in 2020