Opinion

The people who’ve polluted our national waterways are now asking for more money. Who are they kidding?

The recent National Conservatism conference highlighted the threat of the far-right and the polarisation within the Tory Party itself

Martin Amis once confided his belief that his literary legacy would not last long. It was one of the rare occasions that he was wrong

Economic hardship and war have not pushed Europe’s nations apart, but closer together

In an age of stultified self-censorship and blandness, we have lost an author who always ran towards gunfire

Once again, the government is failing to offer any answers for why fisheries are struggling

Young people will spend their lives in the shadow of the problems discussed at the G7 summit. Is real help at hand?

I’d like to enjoy his Guardian writings, but there’s one small thing getting in the way

The government has no plan to save a vanishing sector

Is The Ugly Duchess a work of misogyny, a portrait of deformity or the mocking of an aristocrat? Or all three?

In this extract from his new book, our editor-at-large reflects on why The People’s Vote failed... and what makes a successful campaign

It's time for Putin to cut his losses. Except he doesn't see it this way

All roads in Hungary still lead to its populist PM – but after missteps over Ukraine and EU funding, for how much longer?

Artificial intelligence can create a so-so approximation of what John Betjeman might have made of Brexit. But can it write with soul?

Having waited his entire life for this coronation service, and having apparently played a central role in devising it, the King was nonetheless unable to memorise his own lines

Britain needs a bolder Keir Starmer who will challenge the home secretary over her shameful anti-immigrant rhetoric

As Russian rockets rained down on Ukraine, the contest’s political genie was finally let out of the bottle

Germany has returned 1,117 looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, but who really owns them?

The California city is now for too many like a plague-ridden medieval Florence, once glorious, now inglorious

Everything in the country seems broken. What would be the cost of putting it right, and how would we do it?

A new voting system does not mean progressives in perpetual power – if anything it would bolster the far right

Once the envy of Europe, the San Siro stadium shared by AC and Inter Milan is on its last legs – but still capable of stirring the soul.

Russia seems too tired and depleted to be able to resist tyrannical leaders

Teaching philosophy in the classroom can help better prepare younger generations for later life

Should the dastardly progressives impose PR on the nation, the days of the Tory minority exercising unlimited power could be over... the horror

Despite a flailing economy and soaring unemployment, president Erdoğan may retain his grip on the country's reins

Her piece is a nod to the cultural and intellectual links between Britain and Italy

Italy’s younger generations are swapping rush-hour in the city for country roads. Who can blame them?

By 2028, one in five of us will pay the higher rate - nearly four times more than in the early 1990s

They don't like to be called out for their Brexit lies - which is why it needs to happen more often

The Conservative MP claims Brexit helped thwart Putin's Ukraine invasion. He is wrong