Opinion

As president for the second time, Donald Trump has scores to settle and a dark plan that posterity will be unable to ignore

A city’s reputation lies in tatters

A journey through Pennsylvania showed that, in the Rust Belt, this was not an election about character or abortion – it was about the price of eggs

Memories of Law, Jordan and Souness are being replaced by a new generation of Scottish talent taking Serie A by storm

And if he does give in to the Russian president, what will the consequences be for Ukraine and for Europe?

The ICC has cost huge amounts of money, is mired in scandal and in 22 years has sent only five people to jail. Why is it so useless?

If the prime minister doesn’t act now, chances are he never will

In Andrea Arnold’s feature, Nykiya Adams and Barry Keoghan present a moving performance without straying into sentimentality

The former political adviser has mistaken himself for a visionary intellectual rebel. If that’s so, why is his legacy so small – and crap?

Spain is ready to halt its ‘golden visa’ scheme, closing off another route for Britons to settle in the EU

German politics is now a dysfunctional mess and it’s all Olaf Scholz’s fault. With Trump looming, the timing couldn’t be worse

Feargal has shown what can be achieved when someone with a national voice shouts loud. We need someone to do the same in the fight against litter

Badenoch, for all her anti-woke diatribes, is the wrong kind of Tory rightist. She will lead them defeat, and quite possibly eclipse by Reform

Germany is issuing licences to groups who will report (what they think is) illegal and detrimental content on social media platforms

The philosoper’s ethical legacy lives on in the form of a bot – but its hectoring, evangelical tone means it is far from convincing

For years, scientists have been trying to undermine the cornerstone of modern fundamental physics, but it stubbornly refuses to break

The buttery, flaky pastries have been a breakfast staple for nearly 200 years. Now they’re being remixed

First came a devastating flood.. then a city’s battle to save its cultural heritage

Farmers are a short-term risk, but Labour’s biggest task is getting impatient Britain to buy into the power of long-term investment

The president-elect wants to drag the world back to the 1930s with his trade wars

As locals, we know that Trump doesn’t think too highly of Brussels

There is a central explanation for Trump’s victory – and it is not a comfortable one

Europeans watch Friends and eat burgers and think we understand America. Then elections like this make us realise we really don’t

As Ukraine despairs and Europe’s populists cheer Trump’s win, Keir Starmer faces up to the need to rejoin the single market

The result of the US election contains one clear message for Britain – and for Starmer

The news from across the Atlantic is brutal. But all is not quite lost

Trump’s return to power has been helped by the complete failure of the American left

The night started with nauseous optimism. Then came vodka and gloom

Trump is now ominously close to victory as the Harris surge proved a fantasy

The EU’s migrant return policy worked for years, and access to a fingerprint database is a very distant second-best

The actor’s Graham Norton interjection shows that women's realities are still dismissed