Opinion

Which bittersweet symphonies best sum up Britain’s political parties?

Our modern democracy demands – and deserves – more modern ways of functioning

Erdoğan is risking alienating Israel, a crucial trade partner, to please his voter base

Despite recent events, the vast majority of Italians are opposed to using animals in circuses

Ridley Scott’s epic didn’t exactly win over viewers in France

How close are populist leaders like Geert Wilders to fitting Umberto Eco’s definition of fascist traits?

Southend’s adoption of European culture cannot fix all its problems but it is having shocking social impacts

Europe may have led the Tories to destroy themselves, but Thatcher had already set in motion the destruction of the country

Another gambit by the prime minister has ended with big boasts and little substance

This lesson is as old as the 1930s but clearly it takes a long time to learn

The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

Ireland is a modern-day success story but some individuals have slipped through the cracks

The trade secretary's post-Brexit trade deals do plenty for her profile, but very little for the British economy

Rishi Sunak faces an impossible conundrum and it’s of the Conservatives' own making

The former Ukip leader gave I'm A Celebrity viewers one of the less vaunted benefits of Brexit

The former Ukip leader’s uncanny ability to pour huge amounts of liquid down his cakehole has finally quenched his thirst for jungle screen time

When lockdown ended, I was ecstatic. But other people had a very different reaction

Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was anything but banal. His case is an apt reminder of how evil agents can deflect accountability

The former Ukip leader - who jetted to the jungle to speak to its “big young audience” - barely featured in last night’s episode

Perhaps – but the problems would be immense and the economic damage severe

Wilders promised a vote on the Netherlands’ EU membership. But the grass isn't always greener...

Venturing out onto the city’s streets carries danger. But there is little reason to go out anyway

Ratings are down and the Brexiteer is missing his chance to capitalise on new net migration numbers

Geert Wilders and his party have taken hate into the mainstream

Jeremy Hunt’s tinkering won’t kickstart growth or make up for the cost of leaving the EU

No wonder the chancellor skipped over damning forecasts in his autumn statement

A national insurance cut for January indicates we could only be six months from a poll

Keir Starmer focused on the prime minister’s five new priorities as the Commons warmed up for the autumn statement

The first recorded purchase of Shakespeare’s collected works came 400 years ago – and the compendium soon crossed into Europe

A walk in the footsteps of Philip Kerr’s fictional detective, who cracked cases and heads in Nazi-era and cold war Berlin

A good roast potato is incomparable and, luckily, the rest of Europe is in agreement