Opinion

Lionel Messi’s signing for PSG completes a glittering attacking line-up, but an ageing one, says TNE football writer ROB HUGHES

Eight months after the end of the transition period, how are UK companies faring outside the EU? MARK MARDELL investigates

As two new books and an artist’s opera project revisit the enigmatic Maria Callas, the best way to understand her is by focusing on the most obvious place.. the stage.

The coming century will belong to the Global South, and the Global North needs to come to terms with that

The comedian and broadcaster is back with a conspiracy theorist's guide to the great British holiday

The secretive artist whose works command millions at auction has returned with new street pieces in Great Yarmouth and other eastern coastal towns. But as prices continue to rise, what is it like to have been one of the early adopters who bought one of his early prints for a song nearly 20 years ago?

EMMA LUCK on how tax breaks, pandemic management and ambitious studio plans are helping Spain film its way to recovery in the shadow of Covid-10.

Mathieu Boogaerts has set himself an ambitious task: teaching the English about French chanson

CHARLIE CONNELLY on three new books of poetry on strikingly different themes: a sixth century saint, an endangered species and the everyday episodes which take place in a supermarket

PETER BARRON on the joys of renovating a crumbling barn in rural Extremadura... during the pandemic... while more than a thousand miles away

Introducing a new weekly column by Nigel Warburton, one of the world’s most-read philosophers.

The Conservative MP and former soldier, whose moving speech on the tragedy in Afghanistan brought applause from the Commons, writes for The New European, and warns of an impending human calamity .. and China's role in a new global attitude to intervention.

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL on the shameful moral vacuum that is the British government of today

In the third and final part of his exclusive series for The New European, author Oliver Burkeman explains that there is no easy fix for anxiety, but there are plenty of ways to manage it

With a new dating show based on the Jane Austen book, perhaps there's a truth to be acknowledged that every literary classic is in need of a reality TV format. By CHARLIE CONNELLY

Esther Loewy lied when she told an orchestra conductor she could play the accordion, and it was a lie that saved her life, writes SOPHIA DEBOICK

Netflix's surreal new dating show Sexy Beasts has only attraction... and it doesn't get the chemistry right

A mission to archive fanzines, flyers, badges and the ephemera of punk, techno, hip-hop and more is underway in Berlin. By DANIEL SCHNEIDER

Are you going to the Edinburgh Festival fringe this year? Neither is Mitch Benn! So he's putting on a show right here...

How Edward Said’s support for Palestine sparked campus wars long before the woke debate.

The party's left has suffered setbacks, but could its battle with the centre allow the former president to return in 2024?

More food shortages and higher prices are likely to be the result of new Brexit checks that come into effect from October 1

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL on his first reading of one of the most important books of the 20th century

JAMES RODGERS was working in Russia in the summer of 1991, when the cracks in the USSR’s system suddenly broke apart.

ARTEMY TROITSKY was on the barricades in August 1991 to prevent the coup from succeeding. He says the freedoms that followed were soon squandered

With the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, Britain's then man in Moscow tells of his ringside seat as the August Coup that preceded the break-up of the Soviet Union played out before an astonished world

A tale of two Jurgens and the power of German coaching

Did the Brexit vote swing on a basic misunderstanding of public finances? Did people die of Covid because our politicians are innumerate? LIZ GERARD explores Britain’s hopelessness in the face of big numbers

SUNA ERDEM reports on a sleepy area of Germany, devoid of big cities and obvious structural advantages, whose economic success is defying orthodoxy and attracting attention as a model for levelling up left-behind regions

Why Lord Digby Jones's claims that Alex Scott's commentary ruined the Olympics are ill-founded

Will Self on a Jewish ritual, and two new TV shows that perpetuate the religion's stereotypes

Otto Lilienthal was drawn to the sky by his idealism and his experience of war. It was ultimately a fatal attraction