Opinion

When they’re laughing at you, you know you’ve lost

Easy to criticise and burden with blame, local government is the perfect scapegoat for the Tories

He has reneged on just about every commitment he made to become Labour leader, and seems to be suggesting nothing will change

Stormont may be back, but the rot and dysfunction at the heart of Northern Ireland will not be easily fixed

Brexit has caused a crisis for British manufacturers who export into Europe – and things could be about to get even worse...

Spurred on by fear of her endorsing Biden, the US right is turning on the singer and her gridiron star boyfriend. Bad move

What if Russian soldiers return to the small town Paldiski that they left 30 years ago?

The capital’s anger shows the polarised nature of Spain’s politics and how populists could take power

Residents of one south Italian village are reversing the negative meaning of being a "cuckhold"

The mythology around the Spanish civil war lives on in Munich

For those who can afford it, Neuralink’s breakthrough gives us the opportunity to become superhuman

Can an Israeli-Arab exchange programme work during wartime?

The point of life is to live it and Derek embodied this

A very strange group of people gathered together in London today to promote a political agenda that nobody wants

The public is wary of returning to the divisive rhetoric that consumed Britain in 2016

All they really want is to be on telly...

Toxic masculinity, not the asylum system, is to blame for a rise in crimes using corrosive substances

The Council president who U-turned over resignation and Hungary’s populist head bring shame on Brussels

While Rees-Mogg and Leadsom celebrate leaving the EU, a deli owner speaks out about the extra cost of red tape

Too many politicians in Westminster live in fear of their lives

There is still a feeling that we don’t know who he really is

One Europhobe is finally waking up to the costs of leaving the EU

The guardians of the French countryside are posing a headache for the very new, very young PM

An ONS study exposes the myth of levelling up and shows London soaring away from the rest of the country

When ordering from a Japanese bakery a lot can be lost in translation

The state of Europe’s fighting forces was too controversial a topic for the Davos agenda

Soon, China’s politics will give way to economics and its debt crisis will inevitably entail pain for consumers

The right wing press is stepping up its attacks on Labour’s leader as the general election nears. But what happens if he wins?

In this extract from his new book, bestselling author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers suggests we start to focus on the kind of world we want, not the one we don’t

Everything is impossible, as Nelson Mandela liked to put it, until you make it happen

If US politics gets any stranger, it's going to be hard to explain it any other way