Opinion

We only met once and since then he’s been trying to ruin my life. Sort of

The lying baroness’s web of deceit has been revealed after her disastrous Laura Kuenssberg interview

A brass-necked, self-pitying display from the baroness and her husband has left their defence in tatters

A US politician’s clumsy words about Hamas highlight a wider problem

Norway’s second city is becoming one of Europe’s hottest food tickets. Just don’t mention the lutefisk

From political memoirs to reflections on renaissance art, our writers recommend their favourite literary treats of the year

Taylor Swift’s crowning as TIME’s Person of the Year is a prime example that our culture must appeal to the lowest common denominator

The barrel-chested Brexiteer is back - but this week has shown he is now an irrelevance

The foreign secretary is deluded if he really believes that leaving the EU is “functioning well”

Serbia’s nationalist government seeks re-election. If it succeeds, Europe may be poised for renewed war in the Balkans

The former Arsenal midfielder made Serie A a refuge from the blood and thunder of English football.. even if he did snub Pavarotti.

The Kinnock family and the Labour party have lost a matriarch

As he spoke, his backbenches could barely bring themselves to cheer

The prime minister’s “win” has set him up for weeks of losing

The prime minister’s lack of diplomacy and tact cost the UK global relationships

This is how the world ends – not with a bang, but whimpering about “open” crumb by people with more time, less sense, and more money than they should

What draws Italy’s populist leader, along with a number of other far-right politicians, to the work of JRR Tolkien?

Each new performance is a comment on his genius.. and his vile antisemitism

The environmental activist group have made their name through eye-catching and disruptive protests. But what do they really think – and why are they doing it?

Riddled with foreign ownership, a number of Britain’s biggest newspapers have developed some very telling blind spots

Some Tory MPs still dream of Boris Johnson returning as PM. After his Covid inquiry appearance, are they mad?

The government’s migration plans are a cruel mess that will harm British business – and they know it

Putin’s Russia is a chaos engine and we are letting him get away with it

This take on Federico García Lorca’s classic left me dazed and speechless

Taking advantage of Italy’s one euro houses is not as easy as it sounds

The number of refugees arriving in Athens is out of control

The whole Rwanda debacle is just a deceit to fool some voters and try to please the Tory backbenchers.

Geoffrey Chaucer’s legacy should be as a great European, not as a quintessentially English writer

Having finished third on I’m a Celebrity, Nasty Nigel will no doubt be back on our screens with further cynical attempts to detoxify his public image

The way the country is neglecting the younger generations amounts to criminal negligence

Bulgaria’s local elections exhibited the country’s unstable democracy