Opinion

The Home Office’s failure to process asylum applications speedily is incompetent and inhumane

The US president must take a leaf out of the Spanish prime minister’s book and focus on social justice and saving democracy

Foreign Direct Investment is a key economic indicator – and it indicates that Britain is in big trouble

Icelanders are watching and wondering – will lava streams erupt in the high street?

Valencia is home to nearly 15,000 Chinese nationals and their culinary influence shows

Having said this, it’s certainly one of the tastier ways of responding to climate change

The former PM owes us all one for the referendum; at least there will be one sensible voice around the cabinet table arguing for closer ties

Back in 1975, the experience of travelling abroad broadened my mind – a foreign concept for Mark Francois

His sudden and unexpected reappearance in Downing Street can mean only one thing: David Cameron IS Doctor Who

Brussels spares little time to think of the UK, and the waters of the North Sea really are closing over the British

Breaking with their stereotype, the country’s fiscal responsibility has gone awry

Ever wondered why your taxes are so high and public services are in such a poor state? Now you know

David Cameron is Rishi Sunak’s latest trick to persuade voters that he is competent. Like his others, it is doomed to fail

Nigel Farage was only unveiled after the show’s producers were told the former prime minister had “too many other contractual obligations”

A top BBC boss tried to fix who chaired its regulator, Ofcom. Now the corporation won’t set the record straight

In failing to realise the value of compromise, serial protestors guarantee they will change nothing

The man who took Britain out of the EU can do an act of public service in his new role as foreign secretary

A dreary campaign is entirely in keeping with the country’s political process

The amnesty causing outrage in Madrid is no different to what happened with Blair and Northern Ireland

Nearly three-quarters of UK firms say leaving the EU has affected them “very negatively”

‘Colossal failure of leadership’ at title, says former star writer Stephen Bush

This Joaquin Phoenix epic fails to nail its big idea, or the motivation of its subject

The capital’s representatives in government have been too male, too pale and too stale

The Supreme Court’s judgement makes clear that this was a plan that would never have worked

Price rises are finally slowing because of oil and gas, not because of the PM

Joe Biden is too old and Donald Trump is too divisive – is a Taylor-made change on the horizon?

It is hard to overestimate the damage the combination of Brexit, Johnson and Truss has done

To hold an old tin – many of which have pleasingly haptic qualities – is to feel one’s own hands gloved by ancient skin

Party leaders will have plenty of political ammunition during their next stint in opposition

Even by recent standards, it’s been quite a week for the Conservatives. Sunak actually grows a pair, Braverman is out (for now), and an old face is back in the cabinet

Italy’s one-euro homes may be more trouble than they’re worth