Opinion

The mini-budget is one of the worst pieces of economic policy-making in history. Meet its fans

What better way to fund the ailing NHS than open it up to commercial sponsorship? Comedian MITCH BENN suggests some policies we should be glad the chancellor left out of his mini budget

We need to tell Putin that if he uses nukes, the West will destroy Russia's military in Ukraine

Kwasi Kwarteng's budget is so economically unsound that it makes you wonder if Liz Truss is secretly working for the Bring Back Boris campaign

Kwasi Kwarteng's mini budget has environmentalists seeing red as the Truss government alienates yet another sector

Keir Starmer and allies fear Tory ‘scorched earth’ diplomacy will leave them with a mountain to climb if they take power

The new Italian PM’s policies are a mess of contradictions and she will struggle against the country’s liberal instincts and independent institutions

Italy’s new prime minister may turn to the centre right for support in a war against ‘woke culture’

The schoolboy errors in Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget have put the UK economy at risk and dealt the PM a self-inflicted blow from which she may not recover

Business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg’s new Brexit Freedoms Bill claims replacing or repealing all retained EU laws will bring unfettered growth. It’s dangerous and untrue

300 years after Maria Sibylla Merian first ventured into the Amazon, the artist and scientist’s influence is still felt today

In a fractious region, the European Union must offer a credible alternative to the darker forces that threaten the stability of the Balkans

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have turned Britain into a giant experiment to test out the riskiest of trickle-down fantasies

As Vladimir Putin threatens the world, a suburb of Kyiv tries to rebuild in the aftermath of war crimes by his troops

A 3,000km cycle ride across the continent reveals the consequences of climate change – and what we can do to stop it

Politicians love them, but they don’t work and unless you’re a tyrant, they’re unenforceable

Many of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s plans are detailed in an economically illiterate pamphlet they published 10 years ago this month

Liz Truss has entered Number 10 wanting to change government. This time may be better spent on some reflection

Each of Venice’s 1,000 islands carries its own world. What happened when a Londoner (originally from France) moved there?

Our society needs a more measured approach, writes one reader

It's time to raise a glass, the famous beer festival has returned

We want peace and ought to seek it. However, negotiating with a suspected war criminal is far from desirable

Rivers and reservoirs are shrinking, the land is parched. Welcome to Europe in 2050 – if we don’t act now

Will King Charles III insist on royal protocol and privilege or will his reign breakaway from tradition?

A recent experience with removal men helped me understand something. The mark of relatively free society is that the personal trumps the political

The Italian word obbligato has come to have two entirely contradictory meanings when used in English

At the centre of Samantha Morton’s new series about the Medicis is a maligned queen whose character remains a mystery

Technophobe and literary rover Javier Marías managed to live a life as extraordinary as his work

The sporting talents of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, nicknamed Kvaradona, are surprising and thrilling

The visionary French-Swiss film director and giant of the French New Wave left us breathless with his films. He's how he did it

Even at the age of 87, Irving was pondering if he had achieved enough during his career