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Caught between unruly backbenchers and Brussels, the PM is running out of options.
The UK election made an irresistible case for proportional representation, but a Conservative government is not likely to play ball. The upper house might be a compromise, though.
How Europe’s resettlement plan breaks down in numbers.
Theresa May defends her decision to refuse help to people risking their lives to come to Europe with some faulty evidence.
New research shows the UK’s military heft depends on a thriving domestic industry to buy things from – and we may be about to cut it drastically.
The Prince has views on defence procurement, badger culling and the Patagonian toothfish. Should we care?
Defenders claim Prince Charles was just trying to educate himself. But shouldn’t he know better?
The UK is refusing to take just 2,000 refugees to help tackle the crisis in the Mediterranean. And it puts the EU on a knife edge.
Counter-extremism proposals replace tolerance with incarceration.
Three secular political bloggers have been killed in Bangladesh since the start of 2015 – but the outrage behind the murders started a long time ago.
The SNP’s big Scottish victory might appear to put full fiscal autonomy right back on the agenda. But here’s why it doesn’t.
Libya’s endless security crisis and duelling “governments” are turning the Mediterranean into a sea of troubles.
An unprecedented package of powers has been welcomed by Manchester authorities, while the public is left wondering.
The Tories have had the Human Rights Act in their sights for some time – but now they’ve got a chance to do take it out, they could end up living a nightmare.
Could devolution for regions like Cornwall and Yorkshire be in the offing?
On the face of it, John Whittingdale’s appointment as media and culture secretary spells trouble for the BBC.
Hundreds of women rescued from the Nigerian Islamist group are pregnant after being held in sexual slavery.
In the strange parallel world where free speech means causing offence and taking offence means revenge, life and death go on ad nauseam.
Benjamin Netanyahu has kept his government going by doing a deal with a party even more right-wing than his former allies. There could be trouble ahead.
The EU has pledged to triple money to the search-and-rescue mission in the Mediterranean. But simply throwing money at the problem won’t work.
The prosecution of 69 members of Greece’s extreme right political party must be constitutional, fair and conducted in the full glare of public attention.
Labour’s Jim Murphy and the Conservatives’ Ruth Davidson clashed over targets for sanctioning people on benefits. Who was right?
The president of the European Commission has called for the EU to maintain its own spy agency.
Who’s running? How can they win? Who’ll be in charge? And what will the Queen be doing? The election, explained.