Opinion

Trump may not have a plan, but the Iranians do. And Americans aren’t going to like it

Starmer, it seems, just doesn’t want to deal with the question of our relationship with the EU – or at least, not in public. That now has to change

Prediction markets are a way of betting on the future. But have members of the Trump administration been using them to profit from secret military knowledge?

It's legalistic, complicated and barely comprehensible but the PM's position on this war has ended up in tune with public sentiment

Even his MAGA base thinks it’s madness. But amongst the outrage, there are still some Americans who cling to magical thinking, and to the idea that it’ll all work out fine

They are the only political force that can keep the extreme right wingers out of power in France. And so, of course, they have just fallen out

Somewhere along the line, the American right became detached from the importance of “truth”, and we all know whose fault that is. But how did it happen?

Morgan Jones’s new book unpicks the chaos of the campaign for a second referendum

A recent report by a consultancy imagined a global economic crisis caused by artificial intelligence. The trouble is, they might just be on to something

The Minnesota bloodbath was all his idea. For now, he’s safely in the White House – but one day he could make a very useful scapegoat

Donald Trump takes on the world and loses - as imagined by Henry Morris

He drew other men towards him and trapped them in a state of complicity. But the cynical use of young women as tools to achieve power is nothing new

Trump’s Iran war has been launched with no evidence, no intelligence and no plan

The Iran War will inevitably lead to the collapse of Trump’s political project. It’s tempting to welcome that prospect – but it could make the president even more dangerous

Thinkers have suggested that we see through photographs, back to the reality that they depict. But really their power is symbolic

The path of human civilisation has been set by our ability to create and use metals. It has also made us more destructive – and given us the ability to annihilate ourselves

Ken Burns, the great documentary-maker, returns with a masterful study of the American revolution. The resonances for the present day are hard to miss

The government doesn’t need to legislate for every possible crime. Why? Because most people know the difference between right and wrong – as I discovered

The German right wing extremists are guilty of the very thing they criticised in other parties. Hypocrisy is not a good look, especially in an election year

The interesting, the weird, the curious and the brilliant all exist. Our algorithms just don't want us to find it

People with mental health issues can go to therapy, can seek help and learn to manage their conditions. But it’s important to remember that sometimes there is no happy ending

In a terrible irony, the green technologies we need to move away from fossil fuels rely on minerals that can only be extracted with terrible environmental consequences

A royal massacre, a deadly quake and student protests have left a country in crisis

Enough! Just stop using ‘til when it should be till

A visit to Chilli Family Noodles with superchef Marco Pierre White is a lesson in masterful, good value cooking

The Taliban government in Afghanistan has just released a new penal code. The rules it sets out are relentlessly brutal and backward

On the off chance something good does emerge from this chaotic conflict, don’t rush to give the President any credit for it

The Metropolitan Police claims to have changed, but its reforms fail to address its systemic issues. Five years after Sarah’s murder, I still do not trust them

The German chancellor is in Washington meeting Trump, a man who sees Europe as irrelevant, who supports Merz’s opponents and who is political poison. What can he hope to gain?

We know what happens when the US breaks something and then walks away. The result is catastrophe. The problem is, Trump doesn’t really care

The US and Israeli assault on Iran has the potential to escalate into a broader international conflict. Not only that, but Trump has put the entire global economy in danger

Starmer may think his party is fighting a war on two fronts. But the reality is far worse than that