Opinion

The photographer documented a city’s outsiders with wit and tenderness

Tari Lang’s memoir discusses growing up under Indonesia's military dictatorship while much of society carried on as normal

The Hayward Gallery’s new exhibition showcases artworks so black that they seem to undermine the very rules by which we perceive the world

How a small Manhattan exhibition in 1938 helped launch one of the most celebrated artists of the modern age

Some words have two unconnected meanings – others have simply drifted apart

The temptation is to either flatter Trump or fight him. The best course is to do neither

The architects of the Constitution drew it up to restrain men exactly like Donald Trump. He’s a scar on the July 4 celebrations

Revolution is the national myth of the US. But another country’s quieter history shows its importance may be overstated

A letter from a little-known business organisation imploring the incoming prime minister not to dilute Brexit is best ignored

Pride day in Dublin brought out the right-wing extremists. They are very clear about what they hate, but less clear on what they actually want to do

Trump banned non-Americans from using Anthropic’s most powerful model. That decision has now been reversed, but it sets a dangerous precedent

The PM-in-waiting is our last hope for a mainstream politician who can capture the anti-Westminster mood for change

Little has made me proud to be British in recent years – except this

A bunch of Brexiteers got together for a Telegraph panel to mark a decade since Brexit. It was a delusional evening, with a surprise ending the following day

The charlatans who said we had nothing to fear from Brexit now make the same claim about the world getting hotter

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The vice president has gone from hillbilly to hypocrite, and Communion exposes the gulf between belief and behaviour

Visiting JR’s La Caverne du Pont Neuf, the installation a storm couldn’t stop

Patrick Freyne’s creations The Heathens star in a book that’s hilarious and heart-wrenching

With guns, grenades, flamethrowers and sabotage training, the Home Guard were no laughing matter

Fresh analysis of dietary trials raises some awkward questions about UPFs and evidence-based science

His final goal captured everything fans loved about the man who called himself ‘a small guy from Gondomar’

Exploring sporting polysemy – the cases where a single word has several different, even if often related, meanings

Scoring points against political opponents is part of the job – but the way you do it is crucially important. And the Conservative leader is getting it very wrong

The PM-in-waiting’s playlist choices are sound. But then so were Boris Johnson’s

Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence, MAGA is working in concert with the British far right to rebuild the UK in a Trumpian image

Immigration was falling, but the racists and populists still took control of the narrative. Whoever comes next must get tough on the causes of social division

The PM-in-waiting will shift power from the capital to the cities to help national cohesion and end the populist right’s grievance culture. It has to work

As a killer heatwave grips France, an argument over air conditioning has become so fierce that it could sway the national political mood.

It can save your life, drain your bank account and accelerate the apocalypse. But at least you won't die sweating

There’s a guide for how politicians can achieve economic and social progress. It’s right there in the history books