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In our house, the Christmas photo still exists. But it follows a very different set of rules: keep it quick, keep it casual, and if it’s not funny … what’s the point?

As a chief whip, I came to know a thing or two about those who flee their parties. Often they are more trouble than they are worth, says government chief whip from 2022 to 2024, Simon Hart

Sidelined by Trump, preoccupied with Ukraine and damaged by its immoral stance on Gaza, Europe can still help stabilise its eastern Mediterranean neighbours , says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie Tocci

In 2016, the petroleum ministry was asked in the Rajya Sabha if it would act against officials from the government-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and its regulator Directorate General of Hydrocarbons for “inaction”. This was a case of alleged gas flow from an ONGC block to a Reliance Industries…

While Delhi’s smog dominates the winter headlines, an invisible poison is surging beneath the streets of a city that discusses its water crisis every year in familiar terms, from supply shortage to frothing.

Some politicians have gone straight for the darkness, seeking to foment racial division. But we need community now more than ever

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips is to be applauded for treating the problem of violence against women and girls with the same seriousness and techniques used to foil terrorism – but still more can be done to control the tech giants who make money out of pushing…

Editorial: Labour’s delayed strategy stresses prevention. Big changes in policing and the courts are needed too

Editorial: The plan to mobilise Russia’s frozen assets is morally compelling and ingenious. The problem is that its enemies will never see it that way