Opinion

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

War has broken out among Germany's self-appointed intellectual literary elite

Boris, Brexit , Trump, Putin and all the populism of the last decade are based on Vranyos - a lie that everyone knows is a lie

Despite the preconception that maths and science are cold and logical while music is all emotion, there’s clearly much interplay between music and the STEM curriculum

As Currygate follows Partygate, Europeans following events in the UK are doing so with a mixture of bemusement and incredulity

The government has the chance to show the world the days of London being Russian oligarchs' playground are over, but that would involve action by Boris Johnson

We need to call White Supremacy out now in all of its guises. Even when it appears as “free speech”

A new auto-narration service turns any book into an audio version. And it’s terrible

The frontman of the Armenian-American metal band had a sour reaction to the Eurovision results, calling for Armenia to leave the song contest behind in the future

It's hard to find a culture you feel at home in when you belong to two cultures. It's a movement between the two that creates a sensation people call patriotism

As Sue Gray reports, speculation is mounting as to which and how many necks Boris Johnson will offer to the block in order to save his own

The war in Ukraine is seeing the reputations of Olaf Scholz's two immediate predecessors reassessed, and not for the better

To render any word unspeakable and un-writable is to impose totalitarian double-think rather than advance the cause of racial justice

Whataboutists try to convince you that all wrongdoing is the same because ignoring how the cases differ never works in their favour

Chelsea's attempt to change their luck by wearing yellow in the FA Cup final didn't pay off

Legalisation won't get rid of the criminals unless legal outlets undercut the undercutters

The government has tried to end scrutiny of the fall-out from its Brexit trade deal – but work to build a better relationship with the EU goes on

The government is paralysed by having to prop up its own failed pet policy

A report on the scandal said Home Office staff should be trained in diversity.. but two years on, the number of staff trained is zero

Across the world, democracy is in rapid retreat as populism, polarisation and post-truth have given the whip hand to a new breed of autocrat. The consequences are dramatic

Emmanuel Macron’s plan for a multi-tier European Union offers some hope for president Zelensky.. and for Rejoiners too

Forty years after the invasion, a threat from within has ripped apart the islands’ squid and fish industry

Top Gun: Maverick confirms that, like it or not, Tom Cruise is a cultural phenomenon

The party looks trapped on a downhill path, straight towards the fate of a radical East German fringe party