Opinion

Confidence in the UK has been shattered and the country may not bounce back for years

The PM’s authority is in tatters after a series of blunders ended with her sacking close friend Kwasi Kwarteng

Arrogant Kwasi Kwarteng deserved the sack, but so does his partner-in-crime Liz Truss

Liz Truss went to war with the institutions that could have saved her

A TNE writer hoped the country she was born in would become more like Britain… but it’s Britain that has changed instead

What happens when it fails?

British-Iranian Elika Ashoori considers what’s at stake for defiant women and girls in the country where her father was unjustly imprisoned

Liz Truss certainly had the shortest honeymoon period in British political history

Kylian Mbappé is becoming such a prima donna that he risks destabilising the clubs that pay his fortune

Changing the current system will be disruptive, time-consuming, expensive and counterproductive

Gentrification has come to Amsterdam’s Noord borough. But not everyone is happy with the results

Our ancestors reacted quickly to seasonal change. It's time for us to prepare for the cold months ahead

After last year's election disaster in the capital, trust in Germany's democracy needs to be restored

One hundred years ago, a malign figure took power in Rome and led a country to disgrace and destruction

Far-right talk radio host Alex Jones and his listeners could spell danger for Joe Biden

A self-help organisation based firmly on the principle and practice of its members not being publicly identified by name has come to embody the exact opposite

What do European nations spend their money on?

The Queen's death may have silenced live music, but a new monarch gives hope of a bigger public platform

The former Ukip leader's latest party may be struggling but he's personally quids in

The hard-left website's staff have taken charge and plan to run it as a co-operative

The sacked trade minister's local Conservative association has been slow to rally around him

Elon Musk’s 'peace plan poll' would trample Ukraine’s right to defend its own people from Vladimir Putin’s onslaught

Starmer has a huge lead, but what exactly are the polls telling us?

A few alternative terms for the ‘enemies of the people’, AKA everyone except Liz Truss…

Why are so many stories that are bad for the government unreported in large sections of the press? Simple. Intellectual corruption

Mortgages helped cause the 2008 financial crash. Now they may bring about a new crisis

The home secretary is giving voice to the basest of her party’s instincts

The dismal artworks which have sat atop the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square bear ample evidence of how little contemporary conceptual art has to offer civic society

System faults have left the UK being governed by the least gifted political class in memory

Whatever comes next for Russia, it will not be liberal democracy

Trickle-down economics is a big lie and always has been, argues one reader