26 h. ago Britain is great at muddling through. But imagine if its leaders knew where they were heading | Timothy Garton Ash

Starmer’s successful ‘reset’ with Europe highlights an underlying incoherence. The only rational long-term strategy is to rejoin the EU, but our politics is far removed from thatLike a chronic ailment, strategic incoherence gnaws at everything Britain does in the world. Keir Starmer’s real achievement in resetting relations with mainland Europe – witness the recent visits of the French president Emmanuel Macron and the German chancellor Friedrich Merz – does not obscure, and in a way even highlights, this deeper confusion.After 1945, Winston Churchill envisioned Britain’s global role at the intersection of three circles: the British Commonwealth and (then still) empire; the Europe whose postwar recovery and unification he strongly supported; and the United States. As Commonwealth countries have formed stronger ties elsewhere, the first circle is no longer of strategic significance. Having committed itself in the 1970s to the most developed political and economic form of the second c...

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27 h. ago Readers' letters: Lower the voting age, but make sure all votes count

Readers have differing opinions over Labour’s changes to electoral law, such as reducing the voting age to 16

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42 h. ago Britain 'not safe' and citizens 'should have food stocks at home' for war

The grandson of Second World War prime minister Sir Winston Churchill was among those calling for people to take steps

Society

43 h. ago Britain and its people are not safe, former Nato chief warns Parliament

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen said the UK is lacking in ammunition, training, people, logistics, and medical capacity.

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51 h. ago Readers' Letters: Give Edinburgh's Adam Smith statue the Winston Churchill treatment

A reader says the memorial to one of Scotland’s most fa mous sons should be given an overdue clean-up

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68 h. ago Winston Churchill’s Former Home Offers Five Double Bedrooms and Access to London’s Private Eccleston Square

Winston Churchill’s Former Home Offers Five Double Bedrooms and Access to London’s Private Eccleston Square  Mansion Global

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4 d. ago Readers' Letters: 'Stop Trump from visiting Scotland' calls counterproductive

Calls to ban Donald Trump from Scotland are short-sighted, says reader

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4 d. ago Readers' Letters: Israel/Hamas conflict shows Labour Party has lost its moral compass

Readers are appalled innocents are dying daily in Gaza while the West does, apparently, little

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5 d. ago Readers' Letters: Israel/Gaza conflict shows Labour Party has lost it's moral compass

Readers are appalled innocents are dying daily in Gaza while the West does, apparently, little

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9 d. ago Readers' Letters: Swinney grandstands on Gaza while Scottish patients wait

John Swinney should stop trying to prove himself a world leader, says reader

Science

9 d. ago Readers' letters: Taxing the super wealthy further will fuel exodus from Scotland

A reader suggests that Scottish Greens leadership candidate Ross Greer has never heard of the Laffer curve

Economics

1 week ago Readers' Letters: We could do with more politicians of Norman Tebbit's calibre

You don’t have to be a Tory to admire the late Norman Tebbit’s character, says reader

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1 week ago Readers' letters: Corbyn could be the kingmaker at Holyrood with his new far

A reader suggests Jeremy Corbyn’s new far-left party could be a bigger problem for the SNP than Labour

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1 week ago Macron and wife Brigitte put on a united front at grave of the Unknown Warrior

The French President walked arm in arm with the First Lady as they met the UK Prime Minister and his wife Victoria for a wreath laying ceremony outside Parliament at the statue of Sir Winston Churchill.

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1 week ago Readers' Letters: Proscribing Palestine Action as terrorists is over the top

Palestine Action should not be considered a terror group, say readers

Events

1 week ago Readers Letters: While experts say seagulls aren't savage, I'm on the ground, bloodied

The suggestion Scotland’s seagulls aren’t dangerous baffles reader

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2 w. ago Readers’ letters: Labour rebels were elected with a welfare reform mandate

A reader says Rachel Reeves’ tears would be understandable if they were about Labour rebels wrecking her work to reform the benefits system

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2 w. ago Readers Letters: If UK Government will support English refinery, why not Grangemouth?

A tale of two refineries puzzles reader

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2 w. ago Readers' Letters: If Glastonbury chants aren't a race crime, what is?

Glastonbury band’s political protest has readers divided

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2 w. ago Bank of England seeks views on theme for next series of banknotes

A consultation will be open until the end of July.

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