Opinion

I used to feel joy at the prospect of visiting the US. But now it feels like entering hostile territory. Wish me luck at passport control

More than 1,300 dead, up to 3.2m Iranians displaced, shockwaves through the world economy - and the president is having the time of his life

Bring back quantitative easing, reboot the OBR and – for a while – let inflation shrink the debt mountain

The regulator is there to make sure news channels don’t break the rules. But somewhere along the line, it stopped doing its job. Why?

We need Ofcom to act against a TV channel out of control. Here’s how you can help

There are plenty of politicians and commentators out there who will tell you that too many kids go to university. But they don’t mean their own kids

The Ukrainian high jumper, Yaroslava Mahuchikh, has one record left to beat – a Russian one

The Labour mayor of London has made a big intervention on Brexit – and his timing looks very canny indeed

Nick Timothy’s recent comments on Muslims have been so inflammatory they’ve done the unthinkable – they’ve drawn a unified, strong response from the Labour government

In a challenge to Starmer, the London mayor says the party must campaign for a reunion with the EU

It’s very easy to get drawn into a life shaped entirely by the ogres who control the algorithms of social media. But that’s the route to populism. Why not go outside, and see what’s going on in the trees?

The right wing channel allows a handful of token left wingers on the air to be shouted at for ‘balance’. This is what it feels like to be one of them

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey pushed Keir Starmer to say what he’d do about the TV station that has broken all the rules

The leader of the Restore party promotes immigration policies so extreme, that he’s even further right than the old BNP. His slogan, “millions must go”, is a clear indication of how, if given the chance, he’d rip British society apart

The best way to prevent invasion is to become nuclear armed. The Iranians have learned this lesson – and other nations across the Gulf, Europe and the far east will be thinking the same

Anti-democratic voices are gaining ground in British politics. Excessive tolerance of these people is the route to disaster – they must be confronted

The argument over the design of Britain’s banknotes is absurd, and misses a much more important financial decision taken in Westminster that most politicians seem to have missed or ignored

It’s depressing to see tiny children glued to screens and worrying to think what this total absorption in tech will do to their young minds. Are we raising a generation of screen-addicted zombies?

Franz Xaver Mozart is known as ‘FX’ – because English speakers are baffled by his middle name

With her distinctive bold colours, grey curls and bright scarves, Saadawi became a feminist icon. Margaret Atwood called her ‘one of the great radical voices of our time’

A woman in a US hospital had a sample taken of her cancer cells that went on to become the most important biopsy in all medicine. Is her family due compensation?

The Queen of Pop has been spotted in Margate – but residents should be more excited about what the British artist is doing for our town

He argued for the importance of communication within society, but his works were relentlessly inaccessible. Despite this, he was central to Germany’s post-war moral recovery

Culture minister Wolfram Weimer has cancelled grants for three left-leaning stores

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

The north of the country endured the war to oust Saddam, the insurgency, the war against Islamic State and now Trump’s war on Iran. No wonder people around here just want to talk about football

The Russian army is luring Kenyans to fight in Ukraine. Processed and sent to the front after minimal training, most of them are dying before their first pay cheque has even cleared

A recent suggestion by Zia Yusuf would plunge the CofE into a nightmare of bureaucratic management. It’s a sign of the contradictory attitude of the British right towards religion

The BBC has finally given a woman a major chat show. But they won’t let the host be herself

Reshaping our place in the post-Trump, post-Brexit, post-Iran world is about strength, not virtue

Superficially they are different, but look closer and the similarities begin to reveal themselves, to an extent that should worry No 10

Winners like Jessie Buckley, One Battle After Another and Sinners were predictable – but the fighting spirit of cinema offered a bit of hope