UK needs new EU trade deal, not scraps from the White House
For Keir Starmer, all roads lead back to Brussels, a toxic subject for many Britons but an economic necessity for a country looking to grow
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Ukraine and European leaders tell Putin to agree to 30-day ceasefire or face ‘massive’ sanctions
Trump backs European call for Ukraine-Russia truce to begin on Monday
A numbers game: Why are there so few cross-Border romances?
Could relative lack of north-south relationships reflect the separate development of society in the two jurisdictions?
Trump basks in ‘end of the beginning’ of new US-UK trade arrangement
Framework will open UK market up to US meat products, including poultry
As much as I want to roll my eyes at Prince Harry’s complaining, it’s clear he’s really miserable
The prince is arguing with the Home Office and the royal family about the level of security they will provide him
Northern Ireland needs to prepare to educate, or prepare to fail
The North must create more university places if it is to close the productivity gap with Republic and with Britain
VE Day: Britain takes a break from its troubles to celebrate 80th anniversary
Parades and military fly-past in central London as capital is festooned for traditional British pomp and ceremony
Tributes paid to ‘much-loved’ boy killed in Gateshead industrial estate fire
Fourteen children have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over the death of Layton Carr
UK police arrest seven Iranian nationals in counter-terrorism operations
Men arrested as part of two separate investigations
Police arrest 14 children in England after boy dies in fire
Blaze broke out in the Bill Quay area of Gateshead, northeast England
VE Day: Victory in Europe, angst in Britain
Britain will celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day at a time when its national identity is being roiled by immigration rows
Russell Brand granted bail after appearing in court over rape and sexual assault charges
Brand’s charges, which he denies, relate to four separate women more than two decades ago
Donald Trump’s bombing campaign against Houthis tests his vow to ‘stop wars’
The US is conducting its largest bombardment since the war on Isis – without a clear endgame
Sixteen EU states seeking budget exemption so they can boost defence spending
Germany and Poland among those seeking leeway on bloc’s rules limiting deficits
Kneecap videos to be investigated by UK’s counter-terrorism police
Pogues, Fontaines DC and Lankum among Irish artists defending Kneecap against ‘political repression’
Kneecap Cornwall gig cancelled, as British government warns Glastonbury organisers to ‘think carefully’ about proceeding with band
Families of murdered MPs reject band’s ‘half an apology’
Work abroad can help boost your Irish state pension
How foreign social insurance contributions are factored into your Irish State pension calculation depends on where you worked
John FitzGerald: Irish unification would hit South harder than 2008 crash
Republic’s prosperity may make a united Ireland look attractive to many in the North but but the cost would be very high for southerners
Remains of Roman gladiator attacked by a lion in combat shows ‘brutality of spectacle’, Irish scientists find
Remains found in York show brutality of spectacles staged far beyond the heart of the Roman empire
There is no ‘right’ to subvert women’s freedom to have their own events and spaces
UK ruling on meaning of ‘woman’ is reassuring for those alarmed by claims that gender is, somehow, entirely separate from sex and is a social, psychological construct
Londoners and tourists mourn Pope Francis amid Catholicism’s unexpected renaissance in Britain
Pope Francis was remembered at Westminster Cathedral, home to resurgent Catholicism in England and Wales
Irishman shot dead by UK police was ‘special person’, brother tells funeral
About 100 people gathered in Galway for the funeral of David Joyce (38)
Painter Francis Bacon’s childhood home on the market in Dublin for €1.6m
Plus: Big moves for Irish abroad, and the shadowy boffins taking over League of Ireland fantasy football
Irish and British futures are codependent and entangled
Worldview: Running through contemporary debates is a battle between those who say reconciliation should come before constitutional change and those who argue for the reverse
The reality of life at ‘just’ 1.5 degrees of warming
While politicians across Europe skirt their climate commitments, millions of people are already at risk from increasingly chaotic and dangerous weather events
UK supreme court’s biological sex ruling disappoints trans activists, lets off politicians
Trans activists will be disappointed, but the ruling gives cover to Britain’s Labour government
‘Have you watched Adolescence yet?’ - Life imitates art for Kemi Badenoch
Party colleagues fear her low-wattage turn as Tory leader could spell trouble
‘We cannot resign ourselves to inevitable conflict’: EU and UK look to end war in Sudan and boost aid
But Khartoum criticises London conference as representatives from both sides in civil war not invited
Record number of migrants cross English Channel in first four months of year
Arrival of 656 people on 11 boats on Saturday is highest number for a single day this year
British plan to take control of steelworks from Chinese owners is approved by MPs
Emergency legislation stops short of full nationalisation of British Steel
Who was David Joyce, the Galway man shot dead by UK police at a busy train station?
Joyce, a gay man from a Traveller background with mental health difficulties, will be repatriated to be buried by his family in Ireland
Bits of history: more slivers emerge of Scotland’s sacred Stone of Destiny
Ancient venerated slab is linked to monarchs from Edward ‘Longshanks’ to real-life Scottish king Macbeth, also subject of a new exhibition
Ireland and UK increasingly seen as global ‘safe zones’ for investors, Taoiseach says
Two governments provide stability that is appealing for investment, Micheál Martin says
‘It was just hard to believe she was real’: Woman becomes first UK womb transplant recipient to give birth
Surgeons hail ‘astonishing’ medical breakthrough after Grace Davidson (36) gave birth after her sister donated her own womb
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