Opinion

Brexit has returned Britain to a black-and-white past. Arguments of 70 years ago must now be won again

While I’m up in that little bubble universe that is Edinburgh during the Festival Fringe (Underbelly, Bristo Square every day at 4pm, thanks for asking), I’ve come up with this rather pleasing little sitcom parody. Hope it – hey! – floats your boat…

This autumn – after years of political debate – reforms will start to be implemented to make German kids move more

Should we be surprised that we sometimes reveal things about ourselves that we don’t know at the time?

Elevating Lee Anderson to deputy chairman and giving him carte blanche to stir up racism is a huge mistake by Rishi Sunak

In the height of summer, Parisians flee the city as heat and holiday breaks transform the French capital

The government's anti-immigration rhetoric needs reversing or the country's economy will continue to suffer

Hit Netflix series Restaurants on the Edge demonstrates that keeping it simple in the kitchen doesn’t always mean submitting to the obvious

Trump has made a career out of redesigning reality to suit him

A brand new luxury toilet has sprung up in Naples, the last of all places it may have been expected

Brexit is more than enough for any political generation. But, the worst is yet to come

Some say the US is in a superpower death spiral like the one that hit post-empire Britain. The signs of decline are there – but so are some green shoots

A stopgap solution without a peace treaty will only create conditions for future conflict

Waiting lists, immigration, the economy… with this lot, it is always someone else's fault

Portuguese comedian André De Freitas is on a mission to put his country on the map, one joke at a time

But, there are ways to recoup the huge cost to taxpayers

The Tories are losing their loyalists and they’re running straight into Labour’s arms

Girls need to see women in the role of coaches and managers at all levels of the game

The ‘brightest and best’ have failed to arrive. What could have put them off?

The government wants to give the impression that it has thought up a policy – but it hasn’t. Not really

Rishi Sunak sees threatening to leave the European Convention on Human Rights as an opportunity to replay the old tunes. It is a mistake

The Bibby Stockholm is branded an empty gesture to fix a crisis of the government’s own making

Think tank says Britain faces recession next year and five more years of stagflation

Handshakes alone won't cut it in a world where major security threats, from war to cybersecurity, are global

If Brexit was going well, we would never hear the end of it. Instead, there's an omertà on the subject

With their Rwanda project in doubt, the Tories went for Plan B. Now they need a Plan C

The Conservative deputy chair has denied ever criticising MPs' second jobs, despite the evidence being there for all to see

The UK's determination to lock people up has already created an overflowing prison system. The prime minister's plans will only make matters worse

An anonymous GP shares how best to deal with the end of life and why this evades Westminster's understanding

Some 66% of party members think there isn’t a climate emergency at all

On oil and gas, product standards and trade talks, Britain is wrecking its diplomatic reputation