Opinion

A newly discovered, signed script for Jean-Luc Godard’s first and greatest movie, Breathless, could fetch more than £400,000 at auction

As tempting as the dream of an AfD-free Bundestag may be, banning the party wouldn’t make the anger and fear that fuel it disappear

Previous prime ministers have tried to deal with Farage by pandering to his ideas, and it’s led to disaster. Starmer must avoid the same fate

Transfixed by the culture wars, the government’s immigration policy is being driven by Labour’s right wing – it’s going to blow up in their faces

Loomer, rumoured to be Donald Trump’s girlfriend, is a hardcore right wing extremist. It’s a shame she’s also one of the most influential people in America

If Keir Starmer learns from the mistakes made by Jim Callaghan and Gordon Brown, he can navigate a successful course through stormy economic waters

Working from home has its benefits. But a whole generation of people who once would have learned on the job now have no one around to learn from

Evidence and eyewitness testimony shows how Russia has maimed some Ukrainian PoWs. But other soldiers and civilians have simply disappeared from sight

Russia and China’s superiority in the ‘High North’ could allow them to sever a key supply route between America and Europe

With the collapse of the two main parties, the rise of populism and an obsession with immigration, the UK now looks more continental than ever

Reform are winning by offering wrong answers to real problems. Switching off the booming green economy is worse than Brexit

Following Farage on immigration while cutting money from OAPs and the disabled has been a disaster

Badenoch is receiving extensive media training in an attempt to soften her image. But her image is not the problem

The most egregious demands from the US-Ukraine minerals deal’s first draft have gone. But, in Kyiv, there are fears that it still offers no concrete security guarantees

Yesterday’s vote shows that the Reform party has now passed a crucial tipping point

Labour are unwilling to attack the Reform leader’s greatest weakness

Proper reporting is fading out as papers shrink or fold. Who will hold the powerful to account?

Donald Trump swore he would face down the world – then blinked first. His aura is damaged forever

Is it too much to hope that, eventually, Trump’s constant lying and backtracking will be enough to bring down his administration?

Scholz’s successor will exceed expectations – but only as the bar for the chancellor-designate has been set so low

President Milei is selling out his own country and its indigenous people along with it

As the world has gone mad around us, the simpler things in life have become all the more important – like birdwatching

The diagnosis for cancer patients and researchers has got considerably worse since we left the EU. Does the government have the courage to act?

I just really hate the Austrian capital even though I always assumed I’d love it

Is the increasing influence of American linguistic usages in Britain making us stiff-upper-lip types more ‘touchy-feely’?

One minute he was the king of cosy Sunday night TV, the next he was on GB News ranting about Covid-creating elites and turbo cancer. What went wrong?

Klaus Schwab, the man who founded the Davos summit, had a vision for the world. But things haven’t turned out the way he wanted

Most of us are happy to live and let live, but objected to being told that we were bigots, transphobes or Nazis