Opinion

English has a number of words borrowed from Urdu-Hindi, many of which arrived when British Indian Army soldiers returned to ‘Blighty’

Malle’s unique approach to cinema meant he was always on the hunt for ways to freshen things up, no matter the risk

Will greater and digitised access to our history result in a more enriched cultural future?

She is a one-off and her memoir reads as such

The prime minister clearly hoped Cameron’s heft would prevent him becoming a source of division

A new book by photographer Kevin Cummins captures the ghost of the Thin White Duke in the German city he once called home

The Tory MP is no swaggering populist, but a leading light of a new cohort of Tories for whom nationalism and nationhood are the intellectual core of public life

Taking faster routes can be a sensible thing to do but only when it doesn’t destroy the activity itself

Young people’s snubbing of a massive Paris rally against antisemitism must sound a warning for Europe’s left

The Home Office’s failure to process asylum applications speedily is incompetent and inhumane

The US president must take a leaf out of the Spanish prime minister’s book and focus on social justice and saving democracy

Foreign Direct Investment is a key economic indicator – and it indicates that Britain is in big trouble

Icelanders are watching and wondering – will lava streams erupt in the high street?

Valencia is home to nearly 15,000 Chinese nationals and their culinary influence shows

Having said this, it’s certainly one of the tastier ways of responding to climate change

The former PM owes us all one for the referendum; at least there will be one sensible voice around the cabinet table arguing for closer ties

Back in 1975, the experience of travelling abroad broadened my mind – a foreign concept for Mark Francois

His sudden and unexpected reappearance in Downing Street can mean only one thing: David Cameron IS Doctor Who

Brussels spares little time to think of the UK, and the waters of the North Sea really are closing over the British

Breaking with their stereotype, the country’s fiscal responsibility has gone awry

Ever wondered why your taxes are so high and public services are in such a poor state? Now you know

David Cameron is Rishi Sunak’s latest trick to persuade voters that he is competent. Like his others, it is doomed to fail

Nigel Farage was only unveiled after the show’s producers were told the former prime minister had “too many other contractual obligations”

A top BBC boss tried to fix who chaired its regulator, Ofcom. Now the corporation won’t set the record straight

In failing to realise the value of compromise, serial protestors guarantee they will change nothing

The man who took Britain out of the EU can do an act of public service in his new role as foreign secretary

A dreary campaign is entirely in keeping with the country’s political process

The amnesty causing outrage in Madrid is no different to what happened with Blair and Northern Ireland

Nearly three-quarters of UK firms say leaving the EU has affected them “very negatively”

‘Colossal failure of leadership’ at title, says former star writer Stephen Bush

This Joaquin Phoenix epic fails to nail its big idea, or the motivation of its subject