Opinion

The problem with Britain’s justice system is that incarceration is more than a punishment – it destroys lives

If its value was that it was greatly appreciated by so many people, do the individual trees being felled largely unseen in Brazilian rainforests count for less?

Nigel Farage’s Trumpian ‘crackdown on crime’ is farcical, unworkable… and deeply, deeply dangerous

How can you test students if their work is being churned out by artificial intelligence?

The post-2008 financial rules are there for a very good reason. Taking them apart would give our Gordon Gekkos free rein

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The constitutional court remains untouched by chaos and is still the country’s most trusted institution

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

After years in the culinary wilderness, pulses are becoming more popular in Britain. But yields are suffering as the climate crisis marches on

Trump’s policies have reduced the desperate stream of people trying to reach the US through Central America to a trickle

Without structural support, the country’s living tradition of artisanal goldwork teeters on the edge of extinction

If more Italian hospitals were made as welcoming as the Rizzoli, patients would be less scared to go inside in search of help

In accelerating the charges laid against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Javier Milei created a new national myth

It’s our moral duty to root for the reshuffled Tories – and we need them to take on Farage’s Reform

Nationalisation is the way out of this crisis - but politicians aren’t brave enough to do it

Europe could save Ukraine and defeat a dictator by shutting down Russia’s shadow fleet and scaling up its own defence production. But will wary voters accept rising tension as the price of peace?

Astronomer’s CEO and his head of HR have been shamed by the world. Does the punishment fit the crime?

The Afghan leak cover-up is symptomatic of a crumbling, outmoded state where self-preservation trumps honour

And then along came a new, hard-right conservative president – a man with no answers to the country’s problems

A new report shows that Britain is aligning itself with more European rules and standards – but there are two exceptions

When the UK economy stalled back in the 1920s, it changed the shape of British politics. A century later, it might be happening again

The PM has a huge majority and is still relatively new to No10 – so why has he just thrown four of his MPs overboard?

Video shows how Yvette Cooper’s proscription order against Palestine Action has given licence for thought crime interrogations by cops

The Afghans who served with western forces have been let down by ignorant politicians with no idea who the Taliban truly are

The president wants to fire the head of the US central bank. If he does manage to sack Jay Powell, the result could be disastrous

Bashing the capital has become a popular and lucrative hobby for a number of right wing figures

A brief, species-wide experiment in trying to connect everyone together is coming to an end

France used to revere its intellectuals – but the men moaning about ‘le wokisme’ are intellectual lightweights

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

A new proposal to restrict the use of trial by jury could fundamentally undermine the justice system