Opinion

After local election humiliation, Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez is risking everything on a national poll that could usher in Isabel Díaz Ayuso and the alt-right

A profitable and once-respected newspaper has collapsed into family scandal and culture war extremism

Division among EU countries on immigration policy is preventing a unified response – and meanwhile people are drowning in the Mediterranean

We are all paying the economic cost of his appalling misrule

BBC Question Time is marking seven years of Brexit with an audience made up entirely of 2016 Leave voters. Wish me luck...

The banks pay huge amounts of tax. If they lose business, then Britain’s economy will suffer

The anxiety over artificial intelligence is a distraction from the real threat facing the planet

The lead singer of legendary rock band Rammstein faces accusations of grooming young fans for his pleasure

Write the former president off at your peril – he epitomises the American dream and knows what makes us tick

With hundreds on urgent waiting lists, Britain’s health care system is failing elderly people

Ivor Prickett’s photographs capture not just the horror of conflict but also the tender moments, the tedium and the weary suffering

In Serbia, pessimism and journalism go hand in hand

Rishi Sunak allowed a man found guilty of misleading parliament to hand out honours to useless carcicatures, bullies and lockdown lawbreakers

The phrase “once in a lifetime” is thrown around a lot. But this artistic experience lives up to the hype

The impact would be behavioural and social as well as financial. But we won’t know until we try it

The disgraced former PM has crawled away to lick his wounds, but he’ll already be plotting ways to inveigle his way back into the public eye...

West won’t succeed. But his failure could push the US towards fascism

Boris Johnson was a winner but he won on falsehoods, and the truth caught up with him at last. Nothing is left but cold, hard anger

The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

Sunak was too weak and slow to do anything about Johnson’s dirty honours. The upcoming byelections will make things worse

Ukrainian Railways has refused to be shunted aside by Russian aggression, continuing to evacuate people and get them home again, both safely and on time

The overwhelming majority of Brits think a close relationship with the EU is important. Why does the government seem to disagree?

Was it part of a deal with Sunak?

Some Europhobes seem to think Europe’s economic problems vindicate Brexit. They’re wrong – again

Independence for the Bank is not great, but it is better than the alternative

The question is no longer whether Putin can win, but how many more people will die before he loses

His reluctance to turn over evidence to the Covid inquiry, and much else, shows a PM concerned with saving his legacy, not the UK

We want technology to be developed in a logical fashion because we want to believe we, ourselves, are logical problem-solvers rather than mere tinkerers

Cleo Watson’s debut novel, Whips, is the latest in a long line of raunchy romps set in the world’s least erotic place – Westminster

Trump faces a crowded field of Republican rivals. He'll obliterate them all

Labour has put economic growth at the heart of their electoral campaign, but they will not succeed until they resolve the damage Brexit continues to inflict