Opinion

Once one of America’s most wanted men, Ahmed al-Sharaa is now feted by Trump and western politicians. But for how long?

Peter Barron goes in search of The Last Wolf, the new Nobel Laureate’s shaggy tale of a visit to the beautiful but remote region of Extremadura

The hard left wants to globalise the intifada, imagining that defeating Zionism will liberate humanity. Their delusion is close to religious mania

Wilders’s party is on course to win the most seats - but an opposition coalition could keep him out of power. Just

Macron and Lecornu have got away with it for now - but the country has forgotten the art of compromise

A tweet by the disgraced MEP about the BBC has come back to haunt him

A clownish spy scandal has shown up the severe shortcomings of British security, and given the Labour government an even bigger Chinese problem

An author hides behind a pseudonym to invent 75 reasons to celebrate Britain’s slow collapse

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In 2016, American journalism failed to reach and serve certain audiences. The same problem is arising from Trump's second presidency

Populists have some very strange ideas about London. The best way to get over their irrational fears is to pay the capital a visit

Peace is not just about bombs falling silent, but the humanity that goes into maintaining it

The prevalence of dog attacks points to an underlying moral failing: too many owners are shirking their basic responsibilities

The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s most influential non-politician

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

A meeting to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Alan Turing’s famous paper drew a fairly unanimous judgment from the expert speakers

Meridian Hill Park is a hub of progressive protest. It's home to everything Trump and his followers hate

In true Milei fashion, the launch of his book, The Construction of the Miracle, was turned into a rock concert to a crowd of 15,000 diehard supporters

The wartime PoW camp has gone interactive and now its high-tech memorials offer both a reminder and a warning to its visitors

The country’s politics may be fractious, but one thing both major camps agree on is that the rise of digital fraud needs urgent attention

Demonstrators in Valencia took to the streets for Gaza, but when it comes to issues like sustainable housing or last year’s flooding, they’re less vocal

Arresting a student for holding a copy of The New World shows how Britain’s crackdown on Palestine Action has become absurd and dangerous

The reels from Palestine and Italy might be a century old – but they feel shockingly of the moment

In an attempt to control the flow of information, the rulers of Afghanistan plunged the country into darkness. That decision has backfired

Blaming Reform’s leader for impending tax cuts only makes sense if you push the UK closer to the EU, too

For my generation, the internet meant connection. Now it only means division

Trump has forged a peace in Gaza – but his inability to influence Israel has undermined the US’s reputation and weakened its global alliances

A bullying autocrat has succeeded where years of calm diplomacy failed. Progressives must ask why

Welcome to Sora, the AI video platform so powerful it risks throwing the entire internet, and all its users, into confusion

The recent parliamentary election result was not a show of support for PAS but instead one for Europe - and against Russia

The country is teaching its people a version of the past in which China is always the victim. The consequences of that could be highly dangerous