Politics

Europe is once more witness to invasion, destruction and war. Can, or even should, we ever put such horrors behind us?

The British love the idea of summer. But then the temperatures rise and people begin to frown

Moscow is in a hurry to get into Georgia – again

The Tate is the latest museum to try to marry art and food together. It may be too high a price to pay

There should be no career resurrection after the blistering verdict of the Privileges Committee. Will someone please tell Johnson to leave politics gracefully?

Does self-styled Shakesperean hero Boris Johnson’s new vocation as a Daily Mail columnist suggest misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows...?

Boris Johnson is gone from parliament. But his poisonous Brexit legacy will go on costing us all

The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

The June 19 holiday is Black America’s 4th of July

The ethnic tension between Serbs and Albanian Kosovans must be handled with extreme caution

After local election humiliation, Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez is risking everything on a national poll that could usher in Isabel Díaz Ayuso and the alt-right

A profitable and once-respected newspaper has collapsed into family scandal and culture war extremism

Division among EU countries on immigration policy is preventing a unified response – and meanwhile people are drowning in the Mediterranean

We are all paying the economic cost of his appalling misrule

BBC Question Time is marking seven years of Brexit with an audience made up entirely of 2016 Leave voters. Wish me luck...

The banks pay huge amounts of tax. If they lose business, then Britain’s economy will suffer

Write the former president off at your peril – he epitomises the American dream and knows what makes us tick

With hundreds on urgent waiting lists, Britain’s health care system is failing elderly people

Ivor Prickett’s photographs capture not just the horror of conflict but also the tender moments, the tedium and the weary suffering

In Serbia, pessimism and journalism go hand in hand

The UK used to be the obvious point of entry for art and antiquities coming into Europe. But then we ostracised ourselves

Rishi Sunak allowed a man found guilty of misleading parliament to hand out honours to useless carcicatures, bullies and lockdown lawbreakers

The phrase “once in a lifetime” is thrown around a lot. But this artistic experience lives up to the hype

The impact would be behavioural and social as well as financial. But we won’t know until we try it

The disgraced former PM has crawled away to lick his wounds, but he’ll already be plotting ways to inveigle his way back into the public eye...

Too many books about the countryside are over-written and nostalgic. But Rebecca Smith’s brilliant new memoir gets it just right

West won’t succeed. But his failure could push the US towards fascism

Boris Johnson was a winner but he won on falsehoods, and the truth caught up with him at last. Nothing is left but cold, hard anger

The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

Sunak was too weak and slow to do anything about Johnson’s dirty honours. The upcoming byelections will make things worse

Silvio Berlusconi was a tax evader, a sleazebag, an enabler of tyrants and mafiosi – and he was adored by half a country