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PM is attending European Political Community meeting amid hope over thawing in Northern Ireland standoff

Looking back at sixties California from the vantage point of murky 1971, Hunter S Thompson climbed a hill in nearby Las Vegas and looked West. "With the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark" he wrote. "That place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”

Liz Truss is ‘destroyer of growth’, says Labour leader

From solar farms to floating arrays, from Australia to Bedfordshire, Lightsource BP is ramping up its renewable energy push

After an acrimonious divorce and years of bickering, Britain’s government looks like it wants to make up with the European Union. The tax-cutting economic plans of the country's new prime minister, Liz Truss, has her feuding at home with financial markets, the opposition and chunks of her own Conservative Party.

The Royal College of Nursing says figures show that pay for nurses has declined at twice the rate of the private sector in the last decade

With Catholics now outnumbering Protestants in Northern Ireland, advocates for unification are starting to believe their dream could become a reality. But is it inevitable – and would a referendum reignite old enmities?

After an acrimonious divorce and years of bickering, Britain’s government looks like it wants to make up with the European Union

Despite the convention that winning a general election gives the party taking power a mandate to rule for five years, Liz Truss’s radically different agenda means she should call a new election immediately, argues political editor-at-large Martin Shipton