Opinion

FRANCIS BECKETT took part in a medical trial for a vaccine that has yet to get approval. He and others have been left in a strange limbo – jabbed, yet not jabbed.

Sensational reports of a plot to kill the Netherlands PM have raised fears about the seemingly sedate, safe country’s descent to narco-state status. But they are also a reminder of the country’s violent political past.

The violent histories of France’s former African colonies owe much to the continued meddling of Paris and other Western capitals.

PETER TRUDGILL on the cricketer Michael Holding and Jamaican Patwa

Public Service Broadcasting captures Berlin's musical history with a magical new album - Bright Magic

Sporting talent can run in the family. Just take it from the Maldinis who have dominated football for generations...

An attempt to breathe new life into the American drama from the noughties falls short

New BBC series Ridley Road shines an uncomfortable light on the UK’s fascist revival, which took place less than 20 years after the end of the war.

As Italy and the literary world marks 700 years since the death of Dante Alighieri, portraits by his namesake, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, resound with the writer’s influence on the painter’s art.

The UK used to consider itself above the political chicanery found on the Continent. It can’t afford to now.

The PM has been wildly blaming others for the causes of the country’s crises. But this misdiagnosis only guarantees more pain.

Can Labour 'Make Brexit Work' as Keir Starmer suggested during his key speech at party conference?

We need to stop being told we aren't streetwise. Instead, there needs to be a sustainable method to keep women safe

As former president Nicola Sarkozy is sentenced to house arrest for illegal campaign financing, JOHN KAMPFNER wonders why French politics seems so susceptible to financial scandal.

There are different kinds of anger - some good and some bad. The right kind of anger can be valuable.

Boris Johnson gives reality cold shrift as Britain enters its Brexit Winter of Discontent.

The surviving Conservative Remainers have had little choice but to back some sort of Brexit, but their complete silence on the issue is shaming.

Bonnie Greer likens the governor of Florida to Michael Gove - both highly educated men, and both ushering in the Age of Stupid.

WILL SELF on reality TV programmes that are so bad, they're good

Far right talk show host Eric Zemmour, a big defender of Maurice Papon, may yet play a decisive role in France's presidential elections, underlining just how much the tensions of the past still play out today.

A minor change to the spelling of the Belarusian president's name would offer a subtle challenge to his authority.

It has had one of the highest Covid rates in the world – far in excess of other parts of the UK and the neighbouring Republic. So what is going on in Northern Ireland?

Singapore's island state has a well-earned reputation for law and order. But that doesn’t mean you won’t find vice there. 

Two writers with strikingly different reputations, whose long-lost work has recently been unearthed.

Three decades ago, dulcet tones from Estonia signalled the country's newfound freedom, writes SOPHIA DEBOICK

Real Madrid remains focal to European football. Florentino Pérez, Real Madrid president, is both responsible for this and has hindered it

PETER BARRON on a night spent at a monastery, where he met one of Spain’s most revered figures

On his centenary, Germany’s best-known post-war artist remains as influential – and contentious – as ever.

Fancy a trip to the continent now the pandemic is easing? JOHN RAIN looks back at some exotic European locations James Bond has been to, and who he killed there

From the BBC downwards, the UK media is consistently failing in its reporting of this government.

Will EU truck drivers see through Boris Johnson and Priti Patel's plan to allow them back into the country for just three months?

The country's curious election has changed everything.. we just have to wait to see how it has changed.