Opinion

No 10 talks about asylum seekers, hotels and flags, but the bread-and-butter issues are called that for a reason

Too many progressives have forgotten the importance of free speech. It’s time to speak up

We invented algorithms to sort our words. Now the algorithms are teaching us how to speak

Today, the west sees Putin as a bloodthirsty dictator hellbent on destroying peace democracy in Europe. 25 years ago, the picture was very different

Philosophers have long debated the concept of immortality but now Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are concerned too

According to Fifa, £7.22bn in men’s football alone has been spent in transfer fees, a jump of more than 50% compared with the same period in 2024

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

The UK adopted intrusive US-style sirens in the 1990s. They’re scientifically worse for our ears and our sleep than the ones used in Europe. Do they have to be so shrill?

The PM needs to remove the blockages that are preventing policy from becoming reality. If he doesn’t, the result could be Reform, and disaster

Panama, undeserving of its media silence, is still humming with creatures great and small

South Africa is very comfortable with chaos, especially on the roads

Sandeman and other firms are now introducing firebreaks into the wine estates and planting fire-resistant trees to tackle the country's raging wildfires

The president is hoping to win voters over for the country's mid-term elections with the same spending cuts that plunged public sector workers into poverty

From Belfast hip-hop trio Kneecap to Danish jazz band Alawari, artists took to the stage in Helsinki to condemn “Israel’s horrifying genocide”

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There’s only one person to blame for this cycle of collapsing governments

Where is the line and how do you know when someone has crossed it?

Indie director Jim Jarmusch scooped the award with Father Mother Sister Brother - but what does this say about the future of film festivals?

Farage is getting ready for power, but his party is becoming much more politically extreme than he is. If he gets the chance, will he give them what they want?

Maybe I’d feel more willing to help if they didn’t look so daft. And they really do look very daft indeed

A performative male may be "reading green-flag feminist literature and drinking overpriced matcha lattes", as well as carrying disposable cameras

Anything she releases is devoured by her millions of fans. But what, really, is she selling?

Every new book by Tom Cox is a treat and his third novel, Everything Will Swallow You, is no exception

Young people have tried voting – a lot of them have concluded that it didn’t work

Artificial intelligence is intersecting with the graduate job market to reduce the opportunities on offer

Farage’s political gameplan has one key weakness that Starmer needs to exploit ruthlessly

The Daily Mail commentator thinks bringing the late Queen into politics is distasteful. It’s hard to imagine a more hypocritical view

It’s easier for Xi to make friends abroad when he has the Russian dictator by his side

At a hearing in DC, the leader of Reform said that he does not ban journalists from his party’s conference - just hours after his party banned The New World

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Reform claims to be the party of free speech, but this last-minute decision to stop me attending its conference tells a very different story