Opinion

Are the trolls finally deserting Trump?

Like a Venus flytrap, he welcomes Conservatives into his sanctum and is now slowly digesting them

Sneering at another country with problems of its own making won’t solve our own

Politicians love jumping on niche ideas that make them look in tune with the real world. Don’t fall for it

The policy reads like ridiculous, clunky satire

No one in Westminster dares to say it – but the Tories are heading for an extinction-level event

Reckless tax cuts financed by slashing public spending will be the PM’'s answer to more bad economic news

Alexander Stubb won the presidential election, but now he faces an even bigger challenge – Russia

The people who carry things to your door are going on strike. Good for them

While Kemi Badenoch celebrates meaningless memorandums, the damage of leaving the EU is becoming clearer

It’s leaving London and going out on a high

In order for churches to be properly cherished they’ll have to welcome in people of other faiths and no faith at all

Tory ministers have no interest in addressing this fundamental issue with our democracy

Tucker Carlson’s interview with Putin did nothing but inflate the dictator’s ego and advertise his own version of history

The reaction to her catastrophic interview would have been inescapable if Trott were a Labour minister

Robert Rossen’s classic is a reminder to Americans that dictators don’t work for the people – they use them as a tool

Our editor-at-large’s new rundown of the pick of the week’s theatre, film and TV

His comment at PMQs was absolutely calculated. He knew full well it would appeal to a certain group who might be on the fence about voting Reform over Tory

A PM desperate for Brexit benefits has delivered at best a white elephant and at worst a huge waste of public money with big security risks

Agriculture is in a crisis created by Brexit, and farmers are furious.. as Jacob Rees-Mogg found out

Brussels is accustomed to demonstrations but the farmers’ protests were a different story

The country’s army is full of middle-aged volunteers hoping to save the next generation from fighting

Is the prime minister’s amendment a push for sports culture or a faint echo of the country’s fascist past?

In the Austrian physicist’s style, the mooted right wing coalition is simultaneously dead and alive

As Sunak’s ban on new smokers opens up another war within the Conservative Party, is our relationship with tobacco coming to an end?

The AfD’s flirtations with leaving the EU are helping the far right attack the union from within

The prime minister could still apologise for the offence caused by his recent remarks in PMQs – but he won’t

The mishandling of antisemitism allegations is the second gaffe by Starmer’s operation in as many weeks. Is his media team up to the job?

In an exclusive extract from his diaries of 1999 and 2000, former Labour minister Denis MacShane reveals the growing xenophobia in the Tory Party under William Hague’s leadership – and how it sowed the seeds of Brexit

The stakes in this election could scarcely be higher. Is Biden up to the challenge?

A century old, Rhapsody in Blue blends rhythms from the Black jazz age and from the Europe that George Gershwin left behind