Today
Boris Johnson rejects push for new Scottish independence vote
The British Prime Minister is riding high in England but faces a challenge holding the United Kingdom together.
- Hans van Leeuwen
This Month
Boris Johnson gets boost from byelection win in Labour heartland
The result shows Labour leader Keir Starmer struggling to overcome the schisms opened up by Brexit, which have driven battlers towards the Tories.
- Hans van Leeuwen
French fishermen vow vengeance against ‘les rosbifs’ in Jersey row
‘We don’t want war, we just want to maintain our right to fish in these waters as we have done for decades,’ said one French fisherman in the post-Brexit dispute.
- Henry Samuel
Why Europe is struggling to make a call on China’s rise
As Joe Biden and Scott Morrison look to Europe for support in the contest with China, they face a Continent battling to speak with a single voice.
- Hans van Leeuwen
UK sends Royal Navy to Jersey after French fishing threats
Deployment of the ships marks an intensification of the spat between two NATO allies and is a sign of the ongoing friction caused by Britain’s departure from the EU.
- Joe Mayes
Indian COVID-19 outbreak reaches G7 summit
The Indian foreign minister’s team is self-isolating at the London summit attended by Australia’s Foreign Minister Marise Payne.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Macron, Merkel under pressure to speed up emissions cuts
Green groups say France’s sweeping new climate law doesn’t meet the EU’s target, while a top German court has sent Berlin back to the drawing board.
- Updated
- Hans van Leeuwen
European Union puts investment deal with China on ice
US says its allies don’t have to choose between Washington and Beijing, as Foreign Minister Payne joins G7 counterparts for talks on China.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Byelection could put the spring back in Boris Johnson’s step
After weeks of negative headlines, the Tory leader may get a chance on Thursday to remind his party of his vote-winning skills in former Labour heartlands.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Analysis
- Global economy
Pandemic’s third wave leaves European economies playing catch-up
Even as Australia, the US and China regain pre-COVID-19 levels of output, Europe is in a double-dip recession. Yet the markets still find reasons to be cheerful.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Secret UK deal let AstraZeneca export COVID-19 jabs to Australia
British ministers secretly allowed AstraZeneca to use its UK supply chain to produce vaccines for Australia in return for access to millions of doses from India.
- Harry Yorke
EU cops international fire over carbon border tax plan
Australia appears less isolated after a gamut of developing countries rounded on Brussels during a World Trade Organisation meeting in Geneva.
- Hans van Leeuwen
April
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
Hermit Australia risks never opening up at all
The Indian crisis is making Australia even more cautious about opening up, when actually it should finally make us acknowledge that COVID-19 risk is inevitable.
- Hans van Leeuwen
‘Turkey’s Colosseum’ unearthed in remote fig orchard
A Roman amphitheatre that would have hosted gladiator contests remained undetected because it is mostly buried underground.
- Nick Squires
Don’t relax too soon, WHO tells demob-happy Europe
French President Emmanuel Macron is among those looking for a speedy lockdown exit, even as the pandemic’s third wave keeps hospitals under stress.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Boris Johnson’s building work threatens to come tumbling down
A bit of Westminster court intrigue looks in danger of spiralling into a serious test of Boris Johnson’s premiership.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Billionaire took psychedelics, got bitcoin and is now into SPACs
He may not be well known on Wall Street but Christian Angermayer has made a fortune and been involved in two of Germany’s messier corporate deals.
- Devon Pendleton
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
Europe is frighteningly close to another virus blunder
Europe’s second tourism season is in the balance and full recovery may be pushed out for several more months, with an ever rising risk of economic scarring and pent-up insolvencies, including sovereign distress, writes Ambrose Evans Pritchard.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
British farmers sound warning about ‘sprint’ to free-trade deal
No deal is better than a bad deal, the National Farmers Union tells British MPs.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Jabbed-up UK under pressure to share vaccines with India
With Britain poised to start vaccinating under-40s, questions are being asked about the government’s ethical position.
- Hans van Leeuwen
