Opinion

If the Kremlin has to spin defeat in Ukraine as a victory, it might need other, quick victories to distract from its losses. That means a beaten Russia will be just as dangerous

Failings of the past mean the final test of King Charles’s reign will be damage control

The arrest of a prince will inevitably capture the world’s attention. But his disgrace is really just a distraction from the deeper story and the more uncomfortable lessons

The Reform party now contains a group of prominent christian conservatives who have learned from the US that the way to ban abortion is through the slow erosion of rights

If the president thinks he’s about to lose control of Congress, there’s a range of tricks he could use to steal the election. It will take a nation of millions to stop him

If right wingers like Matt Goodwin want us to have more babies, perhaps he could think of ways to make parenthood affordable again

The Wellcome Sanger – half academic research institute, half industrial laboratory – is perfectly positioned to produce socially useful applications for discoveries

The US is pulling back from Europe. If it withdraws its nuclear umbrella, that will leave the continent dangerously exposed. It is time to plan for that scenario

Weiss made a career by playing the media outsider. But now she’s running CBS – and despite declining audience and newsroom turmoil, there’s no way she can lose

Grovelling sympathy for the royals' trials and tribulations is not what is required at this moment in time

GB News’s Brexiteer host has complained about the very system he voted for

The powerful sociopaths who gathered around Epstein, who attended his parties and wrote him crawling emails asking for favours, need to be held accountable. The UK is starting out on that process. America – now it’s your turn

When I heard that ICE would be attending the 2026 Winter Olympics, I was shocked - but not surprised

For a while it looked as if Elon Musk would dominate the world of electric cars – but then he turned out to be a basket-case. Now there’s a new global leader in town

She supported Trump, the January 6 riots and spouted antisemitic conspiracy theories. Now she’s renounced the president and appears on liberal chat shows – but is her conversion all it appears?

Lose in Gorton & Denton and the party may be driven even further right

The former chair of the US National Intelligence Council says that America’s security apparatus is so damaged the UK is holding back intelligence from the US

London could have been the EU’s capital, leading the continent’s defence against Putin and Trumpworld, instead of a spectator to decisions it once helped to shape

With his own man as chair of the Federal Reserve, and infuriated by the Supreme Court ruling on tariffs, the president might now seek to manipulate the currency for political ends

The former president made some comments about extraterrestrial life on a podcast and a lot of people got very excited for all the wrong reasons

There is a strong anti-military strain in German culture and the introduction of national service has not been popular. But times have changed

The costs are huge, the interest repayments on student loans are crushing and the jobs market is alarmingly weak. And yet – there are still very good reasons to go to Uni

The US secretary of state told his audience he was only being tough on Europe because he loved it. It was almost as offensive as JD Vance a year earlier

The Green candidate – a local plumber – is convinced she can win. But does a Labour-Green fight risk splitting the vote on the left, and handing the seat to Reform?

A booming land of opportunity, of young entrepreneurs and start-ups, is locked in a 50-50 culture war that could see it replace Hungary as the EU’s biggest internal nightmare

My rent is about to jump by well over 10% and I’m not alone in my struggle. Why aren’t alarm bells ringing for the government?

The British honours system has never looked so dishonourable. Why not dump it altogether?

When Man United’s co-owner talks about being "colonised by immigrants”, does he mean Monaco?

I find it hard to think he didn’t hear and see things that made him feel he had to get Epstein out of his life

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