Opinion

The new prime minister is a Brexit true believer who believes in making the rich richer

The ex-PM is like a tired movie trope: the battered, near-dead villain who rises one last time to wreak more havoc. Now it’s time to lower the curtain on this horror show

The ghouls are circling for Halloween – but nobody wants this Tory leadership horror show

A generation of kids will grow up associating Conservatism with cold, hunger and political disaster. He’ll only make it worse

If the UK is forced to endure another Tory government, is there anyone out there who might be willing to face facts on Brexit?

The political chaos at home in Britain is almost matched by that in Italy

A trade collapse with the EU shows that the damage will linger on far longer than Liz Truss did

The prime minister has resigned after a farcical and disastrous 44 days

The prime minister’s reckless plans continue to radicalise even the least militant organisations

Two more years of the Tories’ destructive misgovernment would be disastrous for the UK’s economy and credibility

Mathias Döpfner is Europe’s leading media mogul; the most influential man you’ve never heard of

Mikel Arteta and Xabi Alonso are on a mission to manage at the top

Russian draft-refusers crossing the Georgian border are bringing back uncomfortable memories for locals

The spirit of Kyiv has been tested by Putin once again. But inside this indomitable city, life continues. A report from celebrated Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov

If you think Rothko's pieces are merely calm meditative paintings, look again. Carefully.

A wave of Anti-Americanism has returned to Germany. Or, to be more accurate, it never really vanished

It is surpassing ironic that the tragedy of the Rapanui and their extraordinary statues should now be farcically repeated

Dame Angela Lansbury was a true genius and stage animal. The world has lost a real presence

Starmer’s Labour would be radical in power - and rejoining should not be ruled out if it won a second term

Jeremy Hunt has taken the wheel of Liz Truss’s clown car

Two things are central to the humiliation of Liz Truss: we don’t understand her, and she doesn’t understand us

Only the reversal of Brexit can start to fix the state three prime ministers have left the country in

The Conservative Party has driven Britain to the brink of a democratic crisis. Only a national vote can end it

The collapse of Liz Truss’s authority is the logical conclusion of the anti-EU cult that has wrecked Britain’s economy over the last six years

The Tories could unite to topple Truss. However, they are so divided at the moment that it may not be possible

Confidence in the UK has been shattered and the country may not bounce back for years

The PM’s authority is in tatters after a series of blunders ended with her sacking close friend Kwasi Kwarteng

Arrogant Kwasi Kwarteng deserved the sack, but so does his partner-in-crime Liz Truss

Liz Truss went to war with the institutions that could have saved her

A TNE writer hoped the country she was born in would become more like Britain… but it’s Britain that has changed instead

What happens when it fails?

British-Iranian Elika Ashoori considers what’s at stake for defiant women and girls in the country where her father was unjustly imprisoned