Opinion

The Daily Mail columnist casts an extremely jaded eye over the new PM’s team

Britain’s laws on contempt of court may be a relic of the pre-internet age, but they are still in force. If you break the rules, you can collapse a trial

Christopher Nolan’s masterwork is a smash hit. It has also driven plenty of people mad

A new exhibition celebrates the artist and activist forged by New York and Aids

His giant bronze sculptures were designed to endure – but in some cases, fate had other ideas

The rapper turned politician gave young people a voice – so the military had to silence him

Extraordinary new experiments suggest these remarkable insects may think and feel in ways we are only beginning to understand

Shakespeare, for instance coined several new compound forms, such as lacklustre, eyesore and bedroom

The new PM must be radical – including on Britain’s place in Europe

A new threat assessment says the country’s water system faces a new, more troubling level of threat – the only answer is nationalisation

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The Proms is a reminder that the stirring quality of organised sound defies all reason

The Russian Orthodox Church is building churches in Kenya and is looking to expand its influence. But somehow Kenyans are still ending up dead in Ukraine

Under Starmer, younger voters went Green. The way to get them back is to tell a better story about the future – and Burnham is the one to do it

The new PM was expected to redeploy a few of his predecessor’s loyalists - but they have been purged from his Cabinet

With help from the US president, Andrew Tate and his band of toxic swindlers teach boys how to distrust institutions, embrace grievance and hate women

The new prime minister is no theocrat. But he has been quite open about the influence of religion upon his politics

The new PM should be careful about talking up the importance of where you're from

His first speech as leader wasn't memorable, but it may end up being significant

The EU is banning airlines from charging for hand luggage. Guess who will only, at best, half-benefit?

Great art should be able to exist without modern moral judgment

Biographer Sathnam Sanghera on our unresolved problems with the late singer

Can books still change the world? At the Venice Biennale, the Irish artist contrasts Renaissance dreams with our current crisis

A new documentary captures the conundrum of the ultimate individual in a team sport

Gene Roddenberry’s franchise understands ageing, loss and friendship in ways George Lucas’s never has

For two weeks, I told everyone about the book I was reading – including an older lady on a train. And then I read one of its stories…

The problem is that it’s impossible to separate what a brain does from what it actually is

The martial arts star wrote down his philosophies and hopes as a means of enacting them

The pet name Andy appeared in the 1920s – and became widespread from the 1980s

Next week residents of the Rock will be able to travel anywhere in the Schengen area without restriction, leaving the UK in the shade