Opinion

Red tape continues to frustrate small businesses as the hunt for the sunlit uplands goes on

Drakeford has been quietly effective in Wales. Now I've spoken to him, it's clear to see why

At the height of his fame, the star of Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day called time on his movie career. Why? So he could study philosophy at the Sorbonne

His sabre-rattling is a sign that the invasion of Ukraine has misfired - but what happens next could be even worse

Labour’s leader is perceived to be sitting on his hands over Europe. But private discussions with European leaders tell a different story

Comedian MITCH BENN envisions what people would've sung as they queued to see Queen Elizabeth lying in state

The lucrative UK/US trade deal is dead - so will it Liz Truss now press ahead with ripping up parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol?

Everyone expects far rightist Giorgia Meloni to be Italy’s next PM. What happens next is uncertain

The only way to defeat them is for the left to link arms with the centre

The West has turned away from the victims of the Syrian war, who are stuck between warring factions and a corrupt government that’s implicated in the drug trade

An idea that originated in the Basque country seems to be catching on

The Kremlin has been meddling in Italian politics and will be pleased with what it sees

Polls show the young don’t fully trust Charles. What better way to solve it than by restating his environmental agenda in deed, not word?

Ukraine has learned lessons from the battlefield but Russia has not. The result is humiliating for Vladimir Putin

In dark times, it is genuinely heartening to see Europeans coming together. We have our differences, but we are, essentially, the same, writes one reader

What the US playwright can teach us about Britain’s falling currency and fading international reputation

He has the task of preserving a system that even he knows can no longer be justified

Grief is the long-lasting flame that keeps memories alive. As Queen Elizabeth herself said, “grief is the price we pay for love”

Who really was 'The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo'?

Look past the Irish clichés in Colin Farrell’s Venice award-winner and you’ll find a beautiful, bleakly comic movie

The French Resistance has often been portrayed in a less than serious light, but that could not be further from the truth, as the memoirs of Marie Chamming’s illustrate

Jonas Fjeld kicked off his career by trying to make the worst record in history. This year, he now celebrates 50 years of success in the industry

How two different forms of the Celtic language continue to influence modern surnames and pronunciations

This recipe is enlivening, sustainable and far superior to salmon en croute

Robert Lewandowski embarks on a new chapter in his striking career

Popper never accepted the idea that people did not know about the Holocaust or the gulags, rather they chose not to know. For him, knowledge was a moral obligation

Liz Truss's cabinet isn't as diverse as it seems, despite what the prime minister says

Hamnet’s Maggie O’Farrell creates another major work from one of history’s minor characters

Sweden’s big parties took up populist talking points to kill off the far right. Instead, the extremists are close to power – and getting worse

Germany isn't a country of royalists, but we turned into a republic of Elizabethans

Comedian MITCH BENN on what advice Boris Johnson may have penned to Liz Truss as he left Downing Street