Opinion

Anyone coming into No 10 with the slightest hope of fixing Britain would need to acknowledge it is actually broken, and neither of the Conservative leadership candidates can do that

Its promise of a new patriotism was dashed by Brexit, but some say it was built on a mirage all along

The words 'Prime minister Liz Truss' finally spell doom for the satire industry

As competence joins fact-based debate in the dustbin of Brexit Britain’s history, queues mount at airports and Eurotunnel terminals

Delays on the rail network saw the former Liberal leader's long-delayed farewell party delayed even longer

Damian Aspinall's Aspers UK Holdings ran up a £16.2m loss on £13.4m in sales in 2021

The former chancellor's wife has been hit with a £5m loss at Acamar Films, in which she holds 2,000 shares through her investment arm, Catamaran Ventures

In lamenting NHS failures, the former Tory leadership hopeful seems to have forgotten who was in charge for six years

With his backing for Kemi Badenoch, the former levelling up secretary once again demonstrated his reverse Midas touch

If the Daily Mail chief heads to the House of Lords, expect big changes at the titles he leaves behind

Transport is the only sector where greenhouse gas emissions have increased in the past three decades. Now a backlash is growing, with forward-thinking mayors spearheading new visions of urban centres

Italy’s unusually stable government under the experienced Mario Draghi is poised to collapse and take the country back to the days of ineffective alliances and controversial populists

Will a catastrophic summer in Europe deliver real change on climate policy? Not while states remain captured by fossil fuel interests

Ali Goldsworthy, Laura Osborne and Alexandra Chesterfield’s book, Poles Apart, dives into the causes and solutions to increasing polarisation

Italy’s unusually stable government under the experienced Mario Draghi teeters on the brink of collapse as it faces a confidence vote that could take the country back to the days of ineffective alliances and controversial populists

The Conservative leadership contenders are not being required to explain how they would address the devastating economic impacts of our decision to leave the EU. They should be

So-called ‘dark stores’ are surreptitiously popping up all over Europe – but is the business model sustainable in the post-pandemic world?

There is too little questioning either of the process to choose the next prime minister or scrutiny of the half-baked proposals and vacuous slogans the candidates are bringing to the table

Ahead of another vote in the Tory leadership race, former chancellor Rishi Sunak pledges to get rid of those pesky EU regulations and unleash Britain’s potential. Where have we heard that before?

As the Conservative leadership race narrows down to the final five, we look for clues to how the next prime minister might approach Brexit

For many of us, holidays offer a chance to catch up on our reading and in our post-Covid, post-Brexit world, so too does tortuous travel. CHARLIE CONNELLY has you covered

The answer is both yes and no. While we can take many things from his thinking, we must be wary of his celebration of self-reliance

To prevent all-out war in Europe we have to be prepared to spend money on defence. Even if this means higher taxes and higher borrowing

For the good of the country, the Tories must seek Johnson’s immediate eviction from No 10, writes one reader

A new recording of a Bob Dylan classic takes our columnist back to a bathetic night in Wisconsin

We don't know anything yet about Generation Z. Not about the world they face nor the one that awaits them. We need to change that

There is a link between UK foreign policy and recent global traumas. So what is our place in the world, and what kind of country do we want to be?

Whoever is chosen will have no personal mandate nor a manifesto that’s been tried and tested with voters

What will Boris Johnson’s departure mean for the Northern Ireland Protocol and the government’s plans to rewrite it?

Unless we change our thinking, we will never achieve a revolution in our understanding of reality. We need to shed our ignorance

Eating well goes beyond the food itself. It's about understanding the story behind each and every bite