Opinion

Uniting in collective mockery of self-obsessed billionaires can help us to remain sane

Born in 1991, Acutis’s canonisation marks a first for the Roman Catholic Church – he will become its first millennial saint

The journey to save our ancestral home in China has taken four years, but unfinished business is calling me back

Against all odds, 20-year-old Daniel Jackson, leader of Verdis, has Croatia on the run while his movement has found its way at the heart of a geopolitical dispute

Alicante architect Antonio Cortés Ferrando and his cooperative Espai Verd has brought brutalism to Valencia

Flattering a vain bully is never appealing, yet doing so will secure £7billion when the economy needs it most

It is now impossible to keep up with major live events online. And when the truth does start to emerge, don’t always assume you’ll find it in the mainstream press

Tommy Robinson does not love Britain. He despises everything it represents. Why won’t others say that so clearly?

Tesla’s owner wants a “fight back” to create regime change in the UK. The government must stop indulging him and using his platform

He claimed the world was watching, but most of London barely noticed - and much of what was on view was appalling

The extremist march was infested with vile racism and incoherent ideas. That is their weakness. It must be exploited

Charlie Kirk’s killing is part of a long and blood-soaked US tradition that is escalating in a climate of age and fear

Crumbling hospitals and rock-bottom morale can’t be mended by crude league tables and dogma of the past

A coalition of hard right and hard left are both attacking Macron, which is just what the Kremlin wants

His policies have had the effect of reducing both demand and supply, which is pushing the US towards the worst economic scenario of all: stagflation

A devastating earthquake hit Afghanistan, and the call for aid has gone out. But if it’s all being stolen by the Taliban, what’s the point?

The bureaucratic demands put on artists touring the continent are so great that many acts are simply giving up. And the government is doing nothing about it

A new opinion survey finds that people see immigration as a problem for Britain, but when it comes to their own lives, they have other priorities

Trump’s reaction to the murder of the conservative activist was to stoke division and threaten his enemies. He has the means to take political revenge – how far will it go?

Charlie Kirk's politics were not my own. But the least he and America deserve, on this blood-stained morning, is a moment of civility

He went on stage at Reform’s conference and spouted delusional nonsense. But for the hard-right party, being anti-vaxx is considered a badge of honour

This month Russia is staging huge joint military exercises with Belarus. History suggests Putin is getting ready to stage another invasion

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No 10 talks about asylum seekers, hotels and flags, but the bread-and-butter issues are called that for a reason

Too many progressives have forgotten the importance of free speech. It’s time to speak up

We invented algorithms to sort our words. Now the algorithms are teaching us how to speak

Today, the west sees Putin as a bloodthirsty dictator hellbent on destroying peace democracy in Europe. 25 years ago, the picture was very different

Philosophers have long debated the concept of immortality but now Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are concerned too

According to Fifa, £7.22bn in men’s football alone has been spent in transfer fees, a jump of more than 50% compared with the same period in 2024

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

The UK adopted intrusive US-style sirens in the 1990s. They’re scientifically worse for our ears and our sleep than the ones used in Europe. Do they have to be so shrill?