Opinion

In an ever-vigilant society it’s often worth keeping your wits about you. But, has this practice gone too far?

French director Olivier Assayas has spun his cult 1990s film Irma Vep into a sexy, funny, dizzyingly multilayered TV series.

If Angela Rayner’s trip to the lawns of Glyndebourne put a different social spin to opera, music bosses will surely be buying her champagne

Brutally unedifying and genuinely upsetting – Wednesday’s PMQs might have been just one more sally-forth for the UK’s shameless leader but it marked a new low for a political system now indelibly marked by Boris Johnson’s narcissistic, principle-less time in office. But will enough really be enough?

We finally know Sir Keir Starmer’s official position on Brexit – and it’s every bit as bad as Remainers feared

Comedian MITCH BENN has a few ideas on what you might see on the streets on London during a Pride in Brexit parade

His toadies are finally finding their spines and the only thing left is for the PM to go

Once again, this government is failing to deliver the most basic levels of decency

The prime minister has deliberately created an inner circle who pose no threat and never question any of his actions

The Sun’s Harry Cole continues to fight the prime minister’s corner. Dominic Cummings, meanwhile, finds this tiring

The Labour leader’s agonisingly slow creep towards the right Brexit policy goes on - and his latest move will infuriate Remainers

When the Women’s Euros begin this week, some will carp about a quality gap with the men’s game. The rest of us will just enjoy the skill and the spectacle

Along with Ukraine, the EU has accepted neighbouring Moldova as a candidate to join the bloc, conscious of its vulnerability – not least because of its Transnistrian region loyal to Russia

Emmanuel Macron’s failure at parliamentary polls in June will limit his role on the international stage. Is there anyone out there who could replace him as Europe’s leading political visionary?

After strutting the international stage for nine days, the PM is back to an economy bludgeoned by Brexit and a political class rocked by the most sordid of scandals

After 12 years Tory mismanagement, the country needs someone who'll make tackling the vast inequalities a priority

Far more than the Britpop bands, it was the Young British Artists who best personified the Blair era

It’s impossible to understand France and Macron without understanding the General

The pandemic and Ukraine have left the world’s finances on the brink. But predictions for Britain are worse than most. Why?

Boris Johnson has sought refuge in Ukraine. But, Volodymyr Zelensky knows an act when he sees one

Assange and his fans make it difficult to take his side. But this doesn’t change the fact that this prosecution is dangerous and unjust

As with most of Europe, abortion is treated very differently from any other aspect of healthcare in Germany. Pro-choice activists are fighting to change this

We must remember that we can control what we think and feel about the cards we are dealt, but not what happens to us

Some are seeing this as a demotion, but anything is a step up after working for Johnson

Rayner schooled “Dim Dom” in the art of political repartee

Here are some more crises the government could engineer to deflect the blame from Brexit

At the next election, Labour must hit back against the Tories’ myths rather than playing into them

A progressive alliance that decides to win together rather than being destroyed separately could, finally, evict Boris Johnson from Downing Street

The levelling up secretary spent Rupert Murdoch's summer party as the nonagenarian's personal pastry picker

The prime minister's strategist Lynton Crosby set up a lettings business with Remainer former chancellor Philip Hammond