Opinion

Pioneered by a US baking brand, focus groups are used by the likes of Rishi Sunak to make decisions at the expense of expert-led strategy

Nixon was a potentially great man brought down by Watergate. Johnson, on the other hand, hasn't got an ounce of greatness in him, argues one reader

Over the past decade Lionel Shriver has made a name for herself as a one-woman corrective to what she perceives as an excessively “woke” culture in this country

Thanks to Brexit, sterling is becoming a risky bet for some investors

The best way to protect, and honour, culturally important objects is to put them on public ownership in museums

Our columnist hopes that digitising Holocaust archives in a new government project will help people “never forget” the horrors of the Nazi genocide

Comedian MITCH BENN offers some suggestions for Boris Johnson’s next job

His shtick and clowning around is an affront to her life and service

Tory MPs know, deep down, the prime minister is finished, and not a moment too soon

Could understanding contemporary Russian literature have given the west an insight into Putin’s intentions?

The prime minister is the Richard II of modern politics - and he must learn the bitter lessons of the 14th-century monarch

How will the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda help a single UK family struggling in the cost of living crisis?

As Andy Burnham has been recently saying, UBI is a nettle that Labour should grasp, suggests one reader

There are unmistakable echoes of the Watergate president in Boris Johnson’s Partygate defence

In a climate change landmark case, a quiet Peruvian mountain guide and farmer is taking on a German company over its role in melting the Palcaraju glacier

How an attempt at upstream cultural change on the banks of New York City's East River failed spectacularly

The world watched Paris’s greatest treasure burn. Two years on, restoration is beginning in earnest

No Single Market access and a struggle to develop EV batteries mean an uncertain future for the once-great British car industry

The government are too afraid to challenge adults’ belief systems. This is pure cruelty

Zlatan Ibrahimović could be forced to draw the curtain on an epic career. Meanwhile Italian football more generally is finding its place in Europe's ecosystem

Germany’s latest general elections brought about hyper-expansive change to parliament... literally

Swallows can't exactly reflect on their actions. We, however, can think about if we're actually acting virtuously or not

The Queen has managed a balancing act for 70 years and the Platinum Jubilee is yet another milestone in it

The prime minister wasn't born a fascist. But his incompetence and desperation to survive is certainly driving him in that direction

Comedian MITCH BENN on the songs that could've accompanied the ‘Abba-themed’ party at Downing Street

Instead, the conservative government’s panicked U-turn on the windfall tax does the opposite

Remote locking has thwarted the Russians in Ukraine but the technology has more dystopian possibilities

If we harness the productive power of new technology and increase people’s skills across the board our relationship with work could be very different

Norway’s humane approach to rehabilitating prisoners is at odds with many Europe nations. And it is a remarkable success

Heading to Europe for your first post-pandemic summer holiday? Thanks to Brexit, your sun, sea and sand now come with added queues, forms and red tape