Opinion

Reform claims to be the party of free speech, but this last-minute decision to stop me attending its conference tells a very different story

Some of the best science fiction is not so much about dreaming up futuristic technologies but imagining the kinds of societies they will engender

For decades, US survivalists have warned about a future with troops on the street and plain-clothes goons disappearing the White House’s enemies. Now it’s all happening under Trump, they are silent

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

Seventy years after his fatal crash, a pilgrimage to the place where an actor died and a legend was born

One man set up an email address for the son of God. What kind of emails does He receive?

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Easily dismissed as a diminutive thug, the unfortunate reality is that he understands perfectly the role he has to play in propagating hateful racist nationalism in a country increasingly receptive to his message

Fentanyl, the synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin, is posing a health crisis in the US. But the Trump administration are happy to pretend it isn't happening

Taiwan's convenience culture isn't going anywhere. When it's become a way of life, how could it?

The fashion giant put its models on the Milan runway in slippers that looked eerily Kohlapuris. Could the 800-year-old tradition finally receive recognition?

Forget Prime or HBO, Germans are fixated by the case unfolding live in a high-security Hamburg courtroom usually reserved for terrorism cases

Right now, Xi Jinping is letting Trump do all the soft power heavy lifting for him

In today's world, media doesn't need AI - it needs real journalists

The right have been radicalised, while abuse forces moderates off the platforms. This can’t go on

Britain is drowning in hate. We can’t let Farage remake us into a truly nasty nation

The chancellor lacks the calibre and clout to spell out Britain’s challenge - and the inevitable pain involved in fixing it

I once fled my flat at every opportunity - but oil paints have taught me about the joy of being indoors

Questionable foreign deals, crypto gambles and putting the squeeze on media opponents have seen Donald Trump make $3.4 billion from the presidency. And he’s not finished yet

Costly childcare and housing, short paternity leave, poor support for the self-employed - no wonder more people are choosing not to have babies

The country’s rentrée – the return from summer holidays – is in progress… and so are political blackmail, mass protests, corruption and the probable collapse of the government

Labour have failed to connect Farage with economic disaster in the minds of ordinary people. That must change

The man who would be PM has already spent a decade getting much of what he wanted - and none of it has worked

Vladimir Putin claimed the city was Russian in 2023, but staking the claim doesn’t make it so

The controversial band defied local critics and pro-Israeli protestors at a riotous gig in Paris

The financial crisis left Britain weaker, poorer and more vulnerable to liars - and we’ve never recovered

A cross of St George or a union jack flown today means the same as it did in 1977: ‘You’re not welcome here’

A new book sheds light on the growing gap between the US and the west. It’s time to prepare for the break-up

Stories about a Chinese ‘artificial womb’ seem more science fiction than fact – but reveal uncomfortable truths about the ethics of reproduction

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Debt, remote classes and the rise of AI are making the student experience less fulfilling than ever. But there is still hope