Opinion

The most important advice I’ve ever given myself about reading a book: if at first you don’t succeed, give up

He’s the most boring prime minister we’ve had in decades – so why does the US media seem to hate Keir Starmer so much?

The Swiss are famously moderate – but when an image from a Basel carnival went viral, it led to a period of national self-examination

In the shadow of the bomb, two men fought to create the smallest swimsuit in the world

Watching Adolescence took me back 30 years to a school killing in Philadelphia – and the same old questions about boys and rage

The withdrawal of USAID has ended the system of Aids treatment and research in the most affected country on earth

The TV series is back with an opening episode on the corrosive power of technology firms. Can we do anything about it? Or will they inevitably get us all?

The Brexit reset deal will fix some of the mess made by Boris Johnson and Lord Frost. No wonder the latter is already moaning about it

Who knew about his plans to reverse his tariff policy, and who benefitted?

The idea that digital regulation is an attack on free speech is a myth, largely perpetuated by allies of big tech

Young men used to worship Trump’s buddy - now they are rinsing him while he struggles on a video game livestream

Trump’s dangerous adviser believes in an economic theory that was disproved 200 years ago

Fears from Brexiteers and in government are the last stumbling blocks for a reset deal that keeps the continent safe and boosts trade

Everyone has a take on the Netflix drama about a teenage murderer – and it tends to suit their own prejudices

If Trump and his vice-president have a genius for anything, it’s global media dominance

Thanks to the SPD, expectations of the soon-to-be chancellor are now so low he can hardly fail to impress once in office

The petulant far right billionaire rips up jobs, risks lives, makes Nazi salutes and taunts anyone who disagrees – then complains

Across the river from Russia, the Estonian city of Narva is part of the European Union. But Vladimir Putin is watching and waiting

The UK needs to stop trying to do a deal with Trump, move away from the US, and rejoin the European Union

When we see something that’s well-crafted it’s very tempting to assume that it was designed by one person. But that tendency can lead us astray

New findings at Cern offer tantalising clues to why the universe contains matter rather than antimatter – but answers remain elusive

How did Trump secure a second term? Why has he started a tariff war? The 2017 winner of the Pulitzer prize for drama offers an explanation

In Ireland, generally, they do not mess about with the meat. Sausages are sausages, for the most part: simple cylinders of seasoned pork

Our speech is a living, breathing thing, influenced entirely not just by who we are but also by who we talk to

Serbia has seen five months of student protest and now the country is at breaking point

Nothing could prepare me for the experience of going to a gym sauna in the US

The opposition in Turkey has been reluctant to use protests as a tool against Erdoğan. But the arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul, has changed everything

If the vice-president wishes to return to the country, he may want to be better prepared

MAGA’s trade war has abruptly silenced Farage and other useful idiots who once echoed his agenda

Global finance's hopes that the White House would drop tariffs led to them jumping on a piece of fake news