Opinion

Switching off the news has been particularly alluring in the last few weeks, but we must not fall into this trap

What might Boris Johnson name his new show? Here are a few ideas...

The post-GDR party she used to co-chair is on the brink of extinction, and Wagenknecht is gearing up to push her former comrades off a cliff

In an extract from his searing new book, the LBC presenter takes on the politicians who denied everything and took responsibility for nothing

The refugee, who became an acclaimed photographer, had a lifelong fascination with outsiders

Only the richest 4% will pay it, but everyone seems to hate it. Now it is in the government’s sights

Most of us are at odds with her policies and over-zealous remarks, but she is a high achiever who holds herself to exacting standards

“Jews so keenly feel the trauma of 7 October and its aftermath, not because they support the Netanyahu government or the fundamentalist West Bank settlers… because, like everyone else, we want to be accepted”

The insulting terms he used for Johnson and others tell us much more about him than his intended targets

Worse even than Boris Johnson or Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak’s blinkered arrogance has accelerated the decline and fall of the Tory empire

What will become of the Blackadder of British politics?

Want to know why? Just go abroad

Elon Musk wants you right where he can see you

Instead of standing up to the far right in the name of democracy and peace, Brussels often enables it

Turkish secularists and Islamists have been demonstrating against the war, but for different reasons

Trafficked migrants, fake embryo transfers, babies for sale… the shocking story that reveals the dark side of Crete

Valencia’s minister of culture calls the practice an art form – he’s wrong

Plea deals for his former allies are a disaster for the election-denying ex-president

Unless political leaders can break the cycle of pain and rage, then we could all feel the consequences

It will be the only way to hold off an extremist, post-defeat Tory party

The paper's story about the supposed economic magic of freeports is a pack of lies

‘There is no room for a renegotiation of substance’ says the EU’s former Brexit chief

Our chancer PM is simply building up Brand Rishi ahead of his ejection from No.10

A year in, the prime minister's time in office has been less eventful than expected

The children of the Good Friday Agreement are tired of living in a ‘broken system’

Downing Street has listed some of the prime minister's achievements over the past 12 months. Here are some they missed

In trying to lure back financiers who left because of Brexit, the PM is opening Britain up to a new financial crisis

The US investor and prominent anti-Putin activist is gloomy about the likelihood of ousting the dictator

There’s more to running a country than making your own spreadsheets and repeating an anecdote about AI

The self-styled Brexit hard man is already setting the ground for a future referendum on rejoining the EU

Bad policies creating low growth are behind Britain’s poor job numbers, not feckless ex-workers