Opinion

The government’s chief illusionist waves his bureaucracy-busting wand at the British state and suggests some services may be surplus to requirements

Hundreds of animals have been grounded by new rules governing breeding programmes with European zoos

The dictator is gearing up for a new assault - and the West must act decisively to prevent it

Solutions to the current economic crisis will require the will of a strong leader. Is this part of Keir Starmer's mentality?

A proper baccalaureate – not the ones peddled by Michael Gove and Rishi Sunak – is fairer and would be a real sign of levelling up

In fetishising the trainer, the devotee makes of it a transitional object: something that eases the troubling developmental stage between childhood and adulthood

So, naturally, there are signs of social unrest and civil disobedience across the country

A 17th-century encounter between the peoples of Newfoundland and incoming Europeans had a tragic end

The Dutchman is just the latest Manchester United manager to struggle to shake off the ghost of Alex Ferguson

The Tories are obsessed with reneging the carbon target and fracking their way to oblivion. It's a mystery to experts

The harsh reality of how this is achieved is that it takes from the public not once, but twice

Scholz's convenient “memory loss” about his involvement in the Cum-Ex scandal not only tarnishes his own image, but harms trust in Germany's political system

A phone-tapping scandal threatens to end the rule of prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and give power back to a reinvigorated left

Chinese military drills around Taiwan raised tensions and rattled nerves around the world. But would they really invade?

Donald Trump has become the ringmaster of the Deep State cult

A century ago, the most famous Irishman in the world was shot in mysterious circumstances

If he'd only made Das Boot, a place in the movie pantheon would still be his. But there was so much more to the man who became the ideal studio director

It's highly illogical, but Truss and Sunak appear to actually agree on something: Star Trek over Star Wars

Britain doesn’t really ‘do’ street protest in the manner of some European nations. Will that now change?

I was planning to take a degree in law and work as a lawyer or a judge. Now my dreams and goals are lost

The Mail has reviewed Bloody Difficult Women, but another newspaper continues to refuse

Former Sunday Telegraph editor Sarah Sands has taken on a role at a house builder with a close relationship to the Tory government

While Petronella Wyatt thinks Boris Johnson's backers are delusional, fellow former mistress Jennifer Arcuri seems to think he's been swapped

This attack is what free speech is all about - not the ravings of Nadine Dorries

The world’s advanced economies are coming back to life after Covid... with a notable exception

Its creators may plead otherwise, but the world's biggest TV show rendered sex as grotesque and alienating as any puritanical religiosity

Barcelona, heavily in debt, have managed to go on a summer spending spree

Al-Qaida’s leader is dead but terrorism is very much alive.. and the next wave of it to strike Britain may come from the extreme right

In spite of human rights and its ongoing threat to Taiwan, Brexit and concerns over the union could soon force us to align with the communist state

What happened when pianists from Ukraine and Russia met at a competition set up by a Texan who wowed Moscow at the height of the cold war?

Truss has been described as “a woman so dense that light bends around her”, shares one reader