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Analysis

August 2026

  • Ed Miliband on Downing Street

    EU relations, climate crisis and Gaza: why Ed Miliband is fired up by Foreign Office challenges

  • Nigel Farage under a spotlight when on stage at a political event

    The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK

  • Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin (right) and Fifa president Gianni Infantino

    Uefa has formed a rare but fragile united front against Fifa in battle for football’s future

    Emerging from this week with unity over Fifa’s World Cup sell off was quite an acheivement but Europe cannot rest on its laurels
  • Workers in high-visibility vests clear debris in front of a damaged red building with broken power lines overhead

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Wisconsin hit by rare tornado and meteotsunami

    Unusual atmospheric phenomenon causes widespread damage in US state, while heat continues to grip Europe
  • Firefighter in orange helmet walks beside fire and smoke at base of trees

    Will brutal wildfires force French leaders to take climate crisis seriously?

    Campaigners worry politicians will have moved on by time of elections in which Marine Le Pen is expected to challenge
  • a man walking

    Trump’s tax immunity scheme hoists president by his own petard on Blanche AG nomination

  • Eddie Howe scarves on sale outside St James' Park

    Not so black and white: how Eddie Howe lost control at Newcastle in one summer

  • Iranian missiles on display in a public square over a banner depicting Donald Trump with blood on his face and the words: we will kill you.

    Iran’s war with the US is not its only conflict as internal crises mount

  • Angus Taylor in a dark suit and polka dot tie looks to the side against a blue backdrop

    Icac revelations have left Angus Taylor’s colleagues anxious – and his factional enemies angry

  • Only the Middle East crisis is preventing a drop in UK interest rates

  • This Week in Trumpland
    Let them eat SUVs: Trump White House orders fleet of luxury cars as Americans struggle

  • Fifa wants more money for its members but that does not guarantee investment

  • Polls open in Greater Manchester mayoral byelection overshadowed by new PM and Farage’s antics

  • Andy Burnham meets residents and staff at a Jewish care home in north London.

    Brave New World or Groundhog Day? Burnham revisits old ground in speech on social care

    Rightwing media hostility helped sink his reform plans in 2010, but the new PM’s passionate speech suggests there is now clear political will for change
  • Dylan Whitelaw walks along a street

    Icac hits paydirt as Reformers’ ‘shit sheets’ are given a very public airing

    Dirt files are always damaging – not least those originating in the secretive rightwing Reformers sub-faction of the party
    • Base justice
      Why US military prosecutes alleged rapes of women in UK as ‘sexual assaults’

    • ‘Terminally online’: why frustrated Greens want Polanski to hand over his social media

    • Andy Burnham’s plans for technical education build on coalition’s UTC roots

  • A billboard in Tehran showing Donald Trump being throttled.

    Trump pausing Iran attacks shows US military power is not enough on its own

  • Benjamin Netanyahu, Andrii Sybiha and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in conference in a funeral reception crowd

    Rising Zelenskyy and falling Netanyahu cross paths in chaotic White House

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