Opinion

Hamnet’s Maggie O’Farrell creates another major work from one of history’s minor characters

Sweden’s big parties took up populist talking points to kill off the far right. Instead, the extremists are close to power – and getting worse

Germany isn't a country of royalists, but we turned into a republic of Elizabethans

Comedian MITCH BENN on what advice Boris Johnson may have penned to Liz Truss as he left Downing Street

The EU has offered to scrap almost all border checks but the new PM may not be allowed to listen to logic

Populists have struck at the heart of European social democracy

An accident of timing gave me my name, and a lifelong interest in the royals

Amid the respect, there was some sorrow for what has been lost - not just the ruler, but her country

Is it the small size of Scotland’s population that gives them a linguistic kink: a desire to reduce everything to the compass of a cosy domesticity?

There are better places to generate electricity than farmland, writes one reader

In Rome, to remember the past and our common humanity, sometimes you must look down

Another transfer window shows a sport increasingly at wild odds with the lives of those who follow it

The man who oversaw the breakup of the Soviet Union was an apparatchik who wanted to keep the Communist Party in power, says former head of MI6

Keir Starmer's performance during this coming winter of discontent will decide whether he becomes prime minister in the future

Liz Truss looks set to follow in the footsteps of her predecessor and play to the crowd rather than take her responsibilities seriously

A certain group of Brexiteers have got everything they wanted - but they still yearn for the impossible

A willingness to adapt rather than stick with the ways of the past would be beneficial for the contemporary political environment

There are few things Germans have a closer bond to than the woods and now they're under threat. However, there is hope...

Since the inception of his new nickname, Joe Biden has racked up a few victories

Economic turmoil will test Britain's new prime minister

After Brexit killed freedom of movement, how easy is it to live in the EU for Brits in despair?

Boris Johnson's premiership exposed the weaknesses and systemic failures in our machinery of government, says the woman who defeated him in court

The songs perfect for the exit of Boris Johnson, as presented by comedian MITCH BENN

Liz Truss may have risen to the top by projecting herself as some kind of Margaret Thatcher tribute, but Thatcher's first cabinet contained serious political names. Truss's does not

Boris Johnson wants to be remembered as a great man of British political history. So how does his scorecard look?

Guided by a right-wing Brexiteer with an outdated view of the economy, Liz Truss is setting the UK on a disastrous course

Boris Johnson believes he will be back as Britain's prime minister before the next election. Here’s how it could happen… farcically

In choosing Truss to succeed Johnson, it is pretty clear the Tory Party has not learned much from the reasons he turned out to be such a spectacular failure

Ten years after four people were gunned down on a forest track in the French Alps, the murders remain a mystery. But six detectives are still working on the case

Not for the first time, France's national football squad is going into a major tournament facing internal strife