Opinion

Costly childcare and housing, short paternity leave, poor support for the self-employed - no wonder more people are choosing not to have babies

The country’s rentrée – the return from summer holidays – is in progress… and so are political blackmail, mass protests, corruption and the probable collapse of the government

Labour have failed to connect Farage with economic disaster in the minds of ordinary people. That must change

The man who would be PM has already spent a decade getting much of what he wanted - and none of it has worked

Vladimir Putin claimed the city was Russian in 2023, but staking the claim doesn’t make it so

The controversial band defied local critics and pro-Israeli protestors at a riotous gig in Paris

The financial crisis left Britain weaker, poorer and more vulnerable to liars - and we’ve never recovered

A cross of St George or a union jack flown today means the same as it did in 1977: ‘You’re not welcome here’

A new book sheds light on the growing gap between the US and the west. It’s time to prepare for the break-up

Stories about a Chinese ‘artificial womb’ seem more science fiction than fact – but reveal uncomfortable truths about the ethics of reproduction

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Debt, remote classes and the rise of AI are making the student experience less fulfilling than ever. But there is still hope

Now formally a woman, Liebich has received an 18-month prison sentence for incitement of hatred and cheering on Russia’s war in Ukraine

The Italian government has given the green light to the Strait of Messina Bridge, a €13.5bn project to build the longest suspension bridge in the world – but not everyone is on board

Unfortunately, this time comes with unique reminders of the inequality and suffering that is the core experience of South Africans

With 50 to 60 million dogs on the streets, India’s cities have struggled for decades to balance compassion for animals with the duty to protect human life

Sandy Baltimore’s name has surprising links to Gaelic-speaking Ireland, colonial plantations and Caribbean migrations

From a backyard shack in Kingston, Perry reinvented the idea of the recording studio – before burning it to the ground

In an age of far right disinformation, scientist Emma Monk wages war against the prophets of rage

The march of artificial intelligence is powering rapid advances in robotics, as could be seen at the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games

Two films about unfolding tragedy shock the Locarno Film Festival

His desperation to follow in Barack Obama’s footsteps deepens day by day, unsolved war by unsolved war

Wuppertal, in western Germany, is famous for having the world’s oldest suspension railway – with one very large passenger

A crime writer’s memoir goes from New Jersey to Venice via Iran and LA – and features an apology to her most famous character

A new film captures the awkward, brittle reality of late-life male companionship

Nuclear power may be essential for a future lunar base, but Nasa’s latest announcement looks more like a flag-planting contest than a serious mission plan

O’Connell campaigned against the oppression of not only Catholics, but slaves, European Jews and indeed anyone. Today, Ireland could do with him back

Britta Marakatt-Labba’s embroideries transform the herdspeople’s history into a textile protest poem

It’s a trivia quiz ‘fact’ that the game began as an anti-capitalist critique.. but the truth is even stranger than that

As criticism grows, prime minister Robert Fico’s far-fetched tirades are looking increasingly desperate

Drug tycoon Bashir Noorzai was seized and jailed for life by the US. Yet somehow he is free - and has reinvented himself as gatekeeper to Afghanistan’s trillion-dollar rare earth treasure trove