Opinion

The world’s musical elite gather in Switzerland for the Verbier Festival to entertain and teach, rather than take over the world

While the prime minister lauds Britain's farmers, the industry struggles to cope with a Brexit triple whammy of his government's own making

Rishi Sunak says he wants to protect the price of your pint - but membership in the EU didn’t stop him

There is only one solution to the plethora of cookery programmes cluttering up the TV schedules, and that’s to eat Gregg Wallace

The linguistic makeup of the British Isles was partly determined by three battles – in Yorkshire, Builth Wells and Culloden

The museum that masks Erdoğan’s contempt for Turkey’s artists

The Tories look exhausted. But Labour seems out of ideas, too. Are we headed for the most depressing election campaign ever?

Instead, we have dumbed-down political and commercial interests masquerading as purveyors of news, lurching from one spasm to another

We stand badly in need of the spirit of Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos but modern populism recoils from intense strategic inquiries and policy formulation

The prime minister is on a mission to win over motorists. What else does he have up his sleeve?

What I am discovering, in re-reading his novels, is the immense capacity not only of his mind, but of his humanity

The Dutch capital became a safe haven for threatened journalists after the dark days of the war. Today, their legacy remains

The root of our evils – from water to trains to sport – is a belief that making money is not just good business, but morally right

It’s hard to ignore suffering when it’s near you, or even right in front of you. Yet still, we turn away

Give into your inner child and pay the unconventional Parco ai Pioppi a visit

In Skopje, scepticism is increasing over whether North Macedonia will ever claim the prize of EU membership

The country’s past turmoil can be traced back to the colonial rule that sought to divide and rule citizens of Cyprus

Brexit has made touring a logistical nightmare for artists. Just ask Kate Stables, aka This Is The Kit

Now he has received an apology from his bank for deleting his account, is it not time for Nigel Farage to apologise for Brexit?

Next year, the quaint town in Saxony-Anhalt will celebrate 30 years of world heritage status. Once you visit, it’s easy to see why

Business knows it, the government knows it. So let’s stop the posturing and start solving Britain’s worsening worker shortages

The government has quietly admitted Singapore-on-Thames is dead

The vicious electoral cycle has encouraged the government to falsely promise that they can deliver speedy gains without immediate pain

Musk is building his libertarian utopia on dry land while the rest of us hold up our hands in despair

It’s unlikely that Russia will use a nuclear weapon in Europe – but not impossible

Rejection of regular EU talks and Horizon dithering prove the PM is running scared of his party’s lunatic fringe

Could this disaster finally make ecocide an internationally recognised crime?

The award-winning author, Faïza Guène, wants to make sure the descendants of people from France’s colonies are no longer overlooked and calls for the generational trauma to end here

The government’s own economic experts told him his mini-Budget was a huge blunder – but he went ahead with it anyway

The London mayor has expressed his frustration about the elephant in the room

Labour’s spending dilemmas overshadow their poll leads. Is their leader right to be cautious, and what could he do on the cheap?