Opinion

I have decided to grow a beard – my mission is to reconcile the two most antipathetic faith communities of London in the contours of my own face

Pick up your pan, your spoon, your rice, and get stirring. Risotto is about to have a moment in Britain

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s books and cinema

One shot tells you everything about this immortal cinematographer

Viktor Orbán’s support for Trump and Putin could give rise to a terrifying axis, and with it bring about the end of liberal democracy

The main takeaway I took from Glazer’s The Zone of Interest is different from the one the director intended

We need Have I Got News for You and The Last Leg just as we needed Spitting Image in the 1980s – to reassure us that we aren’t all going mad

Like it or not, this will be a theme in the upcoming general election – we are living through a defining moment for the left

It might even be better for the Conservatives too, but I am less concerned about them than I am about Britain

The youth movement of the 1950s was rooted in Britain’s working class, but its influence and notoriety spread across the continent

Moving against Rishi Sunak now would almost certainly lead to further disaster. But disastrous polls mean that MPs still might do it

In Britain, women with a health condition can sit in medical purgatory awaiting a diagnosis for up to three years. I’m one of them

Locals have opted to negate the fact that Lawrence’s vision of Italy wasn’t entirely idyllic

The CDU Party has already announced it will scrap the law if it wins next year’s election

In 1974, the group won Eurovision.. and changed Sweden

Columnist Sherelle Jacobs says leaving the EU has “spectacularly failed” - but only because we have not tried hard enough

If it hadn’t been for the civil servants that the Conservatives so gleefully denigrate, Britain would have fallen apart years ago

Rachel Reeves will need to confront failures that others have ignored

Britain’s universities and colleges are on the brink because of government policies

To dismiss ADHD while offering no supporting evidence is small-minded and overlooks Britain’s leading role in understanding the condition

As Britain sanctions Chinese cyberattackers, Europe starts to break with Xi’s pet funding project

If the former president cashes in on Truth Social’s ludicrous valuation, it will be at the expense of his biggest fans

Bayern Munich may have been in turmoil this season but the England striker is in the form of his life

The SNP are using a new referendum as a wedge issue in their fight against Labour

Ten years since its annexation, Putin’s miscalculations have put the status of Crimea in doubt again

And 17% of those who backed Boris Johnson now say we should rejoin the bloc

How the Tories’ new deputy chairman is a symbol of the party’s bizarre transformation

It's hard to believe anything could prevent Trump from becoming the Republican nominee, and perhaps the president

The eye-catching tractor protests are justified from a stitched-up sector that mostly voted Leave

The only answer to our property problems is unlocking the ability to build more homes

If Reeves’ analysis is correct, her securonomics will eventually pay for itself