Opinion

Comedian MITCH BENN on the inevitable reaction to Ncuti Gatwa being cast as the next Doctor from the inevitable quarters

The UK and Russia – albeit in vastly different ways – seem unable to move on from the events of eight decades ago

Obsession with the Protocol has handed the advantage to Sinn Féin

If Sinn Fein can reach across the old divides, victory in a border poll could be within its grasp

The jury is out on Britain’s scheme to help students study overseas

Keir Starmer must banish the obsolete and the utopian, says the former foreign secretary in a speech to mark the 25th anniversary of New Labour’s triumph

The fragile relationship between the Press and politicians is at the heart of a procession of scandalous stories

As the government totters, its rabid lapdog is going all-out on attacking Labour

Ukraine's fight is about more than international law and national self-determination, it's about what sort of world we want to live in

War in Ukraine is worsening farming’s Brexit-driven problems.. and now a food supply crisis could follow

Despite his fence-sitting over Ukraine, Hungarian leader and Putin ally Viktor Orbán has been left with few friends

In agreeing new contracts at Liverpool and Manchester City, Jürgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola are putting down roots that are rare in modern life, let alone in the ephemeral world of football

How the video social network has raised sales figures and revived forgotten titles

This year's Tallinn Music Week has been a showcase for some of the besieged country's most defiant music acts

The Conservatives’ ongoing economic incoherence is a poisonous legacy of their Iron Lady obsession

May 9 holds a special place in the lives of ordinary Russians. But their president has turned it into a show of force

We need a prime minister who isn't driven by a competitive spirit and has a desire to work out what is best for the country. We are unlikely to find those characteristics in a sportsperson

There are real fights on free expression being carried out across the world every day. We must not let the more visible, sillier ones crown them out

Olaf Scholz's change of heart came overnight. So fast that the chairman of his own SPD parliamentary group missed it

The reaction to the Depp/Heard trial demonstrates society's primal behaviour

The rich may be well-protected. But for the rest of us, this is going to be a very rough ride

There’s been a significant semiotic shift on planet Kardashian - the name of the show has changed!

The president’s achievements have been underplayed - and they contain lessons for Labour and the Lib Dems

Here's five ways the Tories could stitch up the next election

My criticisms of the culture secretary have nothing to do with her being a woman, and everything to do with her being hopeless and dangerously out of her depth

Downing Street parties have proven the final straw for lifelong Tory voter Tony Blackburn

Labour's deputy leader hasn't wound up the company set up to support her campaign for the role

Rothermere, who pays minimal tax on account of his non-dom status, appears to be fretting about Starmer's pledge to abolish the loophole

Ukraine should be the final push we need to close the legal loopholes that encourage oligarchs and kleptocrats to hide their assets in the UK

After weeks of criticism over her department’s multiple failures, Priti Patel is brandishing her trademark smirk again after the passage of a series of laws that threaten basic freedoms at home and abroad