Opinion

The government wants to extend the franchise to 16 and 17-year olds. But it’s a move that could backfire

Farage is winning by whipping up anger and then claiming to be the only one who can quell it. It’s time Starmer ‘hugs the cactus’ by confronting the Reform leader’s claims – and his supporters

This summer has shown us two visions of the country. Only one deserves to win

At Wembley Stadium, Liam and Noel Gallagher served up pure sonic energy, proving that the best things in life can live forever

The first unmanned flying weapon was launched over a century ago – the full implications of that flight are only now being understood

People are being dragged towards a deeply flawed new political project that will act as a wrecking ball for the Labour Party

The Brexiteers’ dream trade deal is finally done - but government hype doesn't match the facts

The hard right channel and the ecosystem which feeds it are behaving like the Japanese soldier who held out for nearly 29 years after the war ended

Conspiracy theorist Candace Owens claims that France’s first lady was born a man. Now the president and his wife will face her in court

He enjoys attacking the left of his party, but the PM’s reversal on planning laws sets him up for a confrontation with his loyalists

Daniel Craig’s 007 is dead, yet James Bond will return. Can Amazon revive him without ruining everything?

Culture is increasingly filtered through social media – do we need critics any more?

The problem with Britain’s justice system is that incarceration is more than a punishment – it destroys lives

If its value was that it was greatly appreciated by so many people, do the individual trees being felled largely unseen in Brazilian rainforests count for less?

Nigel Farage’s Trumpian ‘crackdown on crime’ is farcical, unworkable… and deeply, deeply dangerous

How can you test students if their work is being churned out by artificial intelligence?

The post-2008 financial rules are there for a very good reason. Taking them apart would give our Gordon Gekkos free rein

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The constitutional court remains untouched by chaos and is still the country’s most trusted institution

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

After years in the culinary wilderness, pulses are becoming more popular in Britain. But yields are suffering as the climate crisis marches on

Trump’s policies have reduced the desperate stream of people trying to reach the US through Central America to a trickle

Without structural support, the country’s living tradition of artisanal goldwork teeters on the edge of extinction

If more Italian hospitals were made as welcoming as the Rizzoli, patients would be less scared to go inside in search of help

In accelerating the charges laid against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Javier Milei created a new national myth

It’s our moral duty to root for the reshuffled Tories – and we need them to take on Farage’s Reform

Nationalisation is the way out of this crisis - but politicians aren’t brave enough to do it

Europe could save Ukraine and defeat a dictator by shutting down Russia’s shadow fleet and scaling up its own defence production. But will wary voters accept rising tension as the price of peace?

Astronomer’s CEO and his head of HR have been shamed by the world. Does the punishment fit the crime?

The Afghan leak cover-up is symptomatic of a crumbling, outmoded state where self-preservation trumps honour

And then along came a new, hard-right conservative president – a man with no answers to the country’s problems