Opinion

Artificial intelligence can create a so-so approximation of what John Betjeman might have made of Brexit. But can it write with soul?

Having waited his entire life for this coronation service, and having apparently played a central role in devising it, the King was nonetheless unable to memorise his own lines

Britain needs a bolder Keir Starmer who will challenge the home secretary over her shameful anti-immigrant rhetoric

As Russian rockets rained down on Ukraine, the contest’s political genie was finally let out of the bottle

Germany has returned 1,117 looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, but who really owns them?

The California city is now for too many like a plague-ridden medieval Florence, once glorious, now inglorious

Everything in the country seems broken. What would be the cost of putting it right, and how would we do it?

A new voting system does not mean progressives in perpetual power – if anything it would bolster the far right

Once the envy of Europe, the San Siro stadium shared by AC and Inter Milan is on its last legs – but still capable of stirring the soul.

Russia seems too tired and depleted to be able to resist tyrannical leaders

Teaching philosophy in the classroom can help better prepare younger generations for later life

Should the dastardly progressives impose PR on the nation, the days of the Tory minority exercising unlimited power could be over... the horror

Despite a flailing economy and soaring unemployment, president Erdoğan may retain his grip on the country's reins

Her piece is a nod to the cultural and intellectual links between Britain and Italy

Italy’s younger generations are swapping rush-hour in the city for country roads. Who can blame them?

By 2028, one in five of us will pay the higher rate - nearly four times more than in the early 1990s

They don't like to be called out for their Brexit lies - which is why it needs to happen more often

The Conservative MP claims Brexit helped thwart Putin's Ukraine invasion. He is wrong

In Kyiv, defiance is tempered with the depressing reality that the west might not be prepared to let Ukraine win

The coming week will offer two possible paths ahead for the Conservative Party. Both are bad, but one is downright sinister

It’s being blamed for Sunak’s common-sense decision to retain most EU laws

The pipe dream that the genie of AI is going to be thrust back in the bottle is just that

Failing in Ukraine and undermined by his allies: make no mistake, this is the beginning of the end for Vladimir Putin

The window of opportunity for victory against Russia is open. If Zelensky does not succeed, pressure for a deal will grow

The UK’s problems are deep, but its pockets are not. What can Labour promise on the cheap to excite voters?

If president Biden’s gamble fails to pay off, the entire collective west will likely fragment

Activism is a normal part of the French experience. In Britain? Not so much

The financier and former Tory donor says leaving the EU was a plan by the rich to make themselves richer and the poor poorer

The country thought it was finally putting the financial crisis behind it. But a fatal train crash has thrown the general election into doubt

JJ4, a 17-year-old brown bear, killed a human – and now her fate is being decided by a television phone-in

Have a president AND a monarch. The president would be head of state, and the monarch’s role would be entirely non-political and ceremonial