Opinion

People are being incentivised to do increasingly extreme things online to gain attention – and money. But this new culture is reducing people’s chances of intimacy in the real world

How a terrifying night in Detroit shaped the controversial right wing author’s thinking

You may not like it, but it’s true. The political centre turned in on itself and ignored hard realities. To get rid of him and all he represents, we need that to change

Voters are not swayed by the sight of Black or Brown faces in a political party’s leadership team. They care about the policies – and on that front, the political parties have been failing on immigration, foreign policy and racial equality

For the SNP, promoting EU membership can portray independence not as leaving something, but joining something

Blathering away on TruthSocial, forgetting what day it is and taunting the Japanese PM about Pearl Harbour – Trump is a mess. But the war in Iran might be one screw-up too many

The president’s direct phone number is being traded like a Pokémon card among the DC press pack. But what happens when Trump turns the US political media into his own huge mouthpiece?

The decision against the social media giant in a US court is hugely symbolic, and a victory for campaigners who say Facebook’s products are addictive. But don’t hold your breath waiting for change. There’s a very long way to go

The aim of the people who targeted the ambulances outside a north London synagogue was all too clear – and the reaction of UK extremists on both the left and right was exactly what the attackers wanted

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The president is probably not directly part of insider trading - but those close to him could well be

The bar recent French elections was low. Still, France managed to lumber over it

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

Sometimes daft and sometimes otherworldly, the all-consuming world of BTS, Blackpink and K-Pop Demon Hunters stands apart from the rest of popular culture

The Swedish pop queen is back with a taboo-smashing exploration of female desire during pregnancy – and you can dance to it

Liam Byrne has written another note – this time on how the government can find its own story and stop Reform. Will No 10 listen?

Never mind Saturday Night Live UK, the most biting indictments of politics and culture are now on your laptop or phone

Now in his 90s, the national treasure fills his latest diaries with bristle and bite

The novel Shy Girl has been withdrawn over claims that ChatGPT was used in its creation – something the publishers failed to notice

An outbreak of the disease in Kent highlights the importance of challenging the misleading stories that are beginning to emerge about Covid

The exiled writer/director knew that audiences really wanted empathy from Hollywood, not glamour

From Ashkenazi roots to German titles, the surname of Israel’s president carries centuries of meaning

A celebrity couple suddenly filed for divorce. The reasons for it were so shocking that it could bring about a change in the law

The leaders of Reform and the Greens both want to turn Britain into a huge political experiment. That’s the last thing we need

Sara Duterte, the vice president of the Philippines, is so extreme she once threatened to dig up the body of a rival’s father and throw it into the sea. And now she wants to become president

Generations of Iranians have been fighting for democracy, and many of them have been killed. Iranians at a Paris protest made clear: war isn’t the solution

If people have heard of my Brussels neighbourhood, it’s because of the terror attacks of 2016. I used to be embarrassed telling people where I live, but not any more

Afghanistan underwent such profound change after the Taliban takeover that it has become a different country. One stranded diplomat has continued to speak for the old, vanished nation

The Tory claims a Muslim ceremony was about ‘domination and division’. Is his intervention really about British values, or something darker?

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Starmer and Reeves are talking tougher than before. Now they need to make a positive case for the UK in a bolder Europe

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