Opinion

Amid faint glimmers of hope, the European elections showed that a politics the world hoped was long gone is back on the march

They won’t win the election - but at least they are the adults in the room

Macron is playing a dangerous game by calling an election – and if Le Pen wins, we all lose

For years, the French hard right has cast a perpetual shadow over the country’s politics

The G7 and EU must make up their minds about what to do with €300 billion of Russia’s frozen assets

Georgia Meloni’s favourite swanky hotel is not all it seems

He’s not going to become PM, but he’s already taught Starmer and Sunak a lesson

The D-day farce said it all about Rishi Sunak – but also about the papers that have slavishly supported him

Giorgia Meloni is now apparently allied with both Marine Le Pen and Ursula Von der Leyen – but is she really?

Reform’s leader wants to campaign on immigration instead of his pet project’s failure

Unless we fight the political liars and the lies they tell, our political future is lost

The world university rankings paint a dangerous picture for Britain, with 58% of UK unis declining in rank

The poor format with two bickering leaders did little to win over younger voters

The PM claimed Labour would put up taxes by £2,000 per family – and now he looks like a liar

As parties have chosen lead candidates with little or no EU-level experience, the country’s clout in the European Parliament could be reduced

Some French voters have forgotten what the EU is really for

Could Labour take the prime minister's seat?

The story of my great-great-grandfather and a killer cat

Brexit and streaming are killing off the tradition of British musicians touring Europe in a van. One who did it says that’s a tragedy

Voters want stability, rather than novelty, from the next government

A Labour government will have to learn to allow rising demand and investment to happen

The new government could use advisory panels made up of ordinary Britons to break the political deadlock on big issues

A restaurant in Notting Hill is turning heads thanks to its new corkage policy: want to bring your own wine into Dorian? It’ll cost you £100

In Mallorca, native islanders are turning against tourists

A pro-Brexit, self-promoting opportunist, he did huge damage to Britain in a career marked by betrayals and duplicity

A Tory defeat looks certain – but how big Labour’s majority is will shape their ambitions and define politics for the next five years

Cameron and Osborne were not centrists; their brutal austerity, destruction of local government and the harm they did to young people were the result of hard right policies

This week’s European elections could leave Italy’s right wing PM as the continent’s biggest power-broker

After 14 years of the Tories, the spending gap per student between the state and private schooling system has more than doubled

I will miss the London Underground’s lack of internet

For most Italians, Europe is a distant, scary and uninteresting concept

A leadership contest between the two is emerging. Each wants to become the great figurehead of the nationalist right in Europe