Opinion

Starting ‘by accident’ 10 years ago, the Profanities Embroidery Group has been described by the comedian Kathy Burke as a punk version of the Women’s Institute

The current state of the continent’s politics may be alarming, but that does not mean history will inevitably repeat itself

Today, highway robbery is common on Spanish motorways

Poland’s capital city boasts a variety of museums commemorating history, but MSN Warsaw has a futuristic approach to culture

The reality of German culture is more ancient, beautiful and varied than the extremist politicians understand

Nigel Farage has staked his political life on slavish support of Donald Trump. Now it seems to be coming back to bite him

We’d all like more money for public services - but in a world where the US has abandoned Europe, more money for the military is the only way

The excesses of the social justice movements will not be missed – but something even worse has come to take their place

The disastrous Oval Office meeting with Zelensky showed that Trump is slavishly devoted to Putin. Why?

The Trump Zelensky disaster was unbearable to watch and revealed the inescapable fact about Trump – and the US

As the industry says visitor spend has slipped behind our European rivals, an insider’s view of why some EU tourists have dropped Britain from their travel plans

When it comes to delivering uncomfortable truths, incisive docudramas can trump conventional politics and Jack Thorne's Toxic Town is no exception

Why does the government want to feed the UK creative sector to the AI companies?

Pope Francis came close to anointing his personal choice of heir. But the conclave will consider a broad group from progressives to Trump supporters

The prime minister’s cut to the aid budget will cause horrendous suffering and weaken Britain

What happens next will define the prime minister’s legacy – and shape the futures of Britain and Ukraine

Britain’s troubled manufacturers are facing even more red tape and cost. Can the government do a deal in time?

Going For Gold was a European quiz show hopelessly biased in favour of Brits. But that didn’t stop foreigners winning

It’s no surprise that so many people are looking for ways to get out of the country

Celia Imrie and Tamsin Greig are funny, tragic and unforgettable

It took Ernest Bevin and a fear of Soviet expansion to bring Nato to life. Not even the US’s nationalistic retreat from Europe will kill it off

In these worryingly unpredictable times, the UK needs to be fully engaged with the EU, for our own safety, security and prosperity

From Voltaire to Kant, the world would be a duller place without the discipline’s coffee-fuelled breakthroughs

For three days every year, the quiet Piedmont town of Ivrea becomes a citrus-soaked battleground

The American jazz pianist had a passion for teaching music, and created a bridge between the worlds of bebop and classical

Despite the lessons from the pandemic, the demagogues and their followers are all too ready to embrace a cult of death

The pork-filled stew – one of Portugal’s national dishes – is boundlessly hearty and invariably leads to a postprandial snooze

Donald Trump and the mind-bending insanity of his foreign policy that treats enemies as friends and vice versa