Opinion

After eight successful seasons at Anfield, Team Germany really needs Kloppo to come home

Finland has rejected the far right, but is the country ready for a gay, Green head of state in Pekka Haavisto?

The Beatles gave young Americans gold standard permission to be different from their parents

On the anniversary of us officially leaving the EU, the damage is clear

Britain’s struggles since officially leaving the EU have brought reconciliation closer

Right wing controversialist Laurence Fox doesn’t seem to understand why he lost his libel trial. Here’s a little explainer

German protests against AfD’s far right extremism show us how to beat the populists

The Sun ran an article under a headline championing the business secretary as the ‘new Mrs T’

Satire, sadness and the home truths about a divided nation

Worrying trends across Europe and the world suggest that women’s rights are under threat

According to Rishi Sunak, it’s really very simple

Keir Starmer will have to focus on Britons’ quality of life if he wants the country to start healing

Everyone knows we can’t afford it. It looks as if Jeremy Hunt is going to do it anyway

The families of Russian soldiers killed in the Ukraine war pose an increasingly delicate problem for the Kremlin

Collapsed trade deals, rising food prices, more border checks and not enough flowers for Valentine’s Day – thanks a bunch

The row over divergence from EU standards has exposed the myth of “Brexit freedoms”

This extract from Martin Sixsmith’s new book explores how Putinism emerged from the country’s brutal history

Tax recommendations from the super rich merely confirm that they have disproportionate power

Jeremy Corbyn is thought to be mulling the launch of a new left wing party

It would do men a lot of good to go out in a dress for a few days and feel the wind of change it occasions

UK police are investigating the first sexual assault in a virtual reality world. Does the future look like this?

Poland’s pensioners will not be swayed from their belief that Tusk sold their country to Russia and Germany

The country’s state of military readiness is laughable to other nations

Bulgarians are tired of being treated as second-class citizens by the EU

Reading is not the preferred choice of recreation for France’s youth

I am looking forward to the Tories’ demise at the next general election, but it is our entire political system that must radically change, and for good

Today, the man who fled the Spanish civil war for Cleckheaton would’ve been deemed part of an ‘invasion’

Have Boris Johnson’s hopes and promises come true in the four years since we left the EU?

In every election since 2010, fear has beaten hope but change is on the horizon

Olaf Scholz is helping the AfD blend in when they need to be singled out

The current iteration of the Conservative Party might well have grounds to sue The Traitors’ creators for plagiarism