All at sea

The Home Office’s failure to process asylum applications speedily is incompetent and inhumane

The Tory MP is no swaggering populist, but a leading light of a new cohort of Tories for whom nationalism and nationhood are the intellectual core of public life

The Conservatives are obsessed with ‘tedious nonsense’ in ‘the worst political period in my lifetime’, says the party grandee

A new book by photographer Kevin Cummins captures the ghost of the Thin White Duke in the German city he once called home

Taking faster routes can be a sensible thing to do but only when it doesn’t destroy the activity itself

The Home Office’s failure to process asylum applications speedily is incompetent and inhumane

The US president must take a leaf out of the Spanish prime minister’s book and focus on social justice and saving democracy

Icelanders are watching and wondering – will lava streams erupt in the high street?

Valencia is home to nearly 15,000 Chinese nationals and their culinary influence shows

Having said this, it’s certainly one of the tastier ways of responding to climate change

Back in 1975, the experience of travelling abroad broadened my mind – a foreign concept for Mark Francois

Brussels spares little time to think of the UK, and the waters of the North Sea really are closing over the British

Breaking with their stereotype, the country’s fiscal responsibility has gone awry

Nigel Farage was only unveiled after the show’s producers were told the former prime minister had “too many other contractual obligations”

The Tory MP is no swaggering populist, but a leading light of a new cohort of Tories for whom nationalism and nationhood are the intellectual core of public life

She is a one-off and her memoir reads as such

The prime minister clearly hoped Cameron’s heft would prevent him becoming a source of division

David Cameron is Rishi Sunak’s latest trick to persuade voters that he is competent. Like his others, it is doomed to fail

The Conservatives are obsessed with ‘tedious nonsense’ in ‘the worst political period in my lifetime’, says the party grandee

A top BBC boss tried to fix who chaired its regulator, Ofcom. Now the corporation won’t set the record straight

Young people’s snubbing of a massive Paris rally against antisemitism must sound a warning for Europe’s left

Foreign Direct Investment is a key economic indicator – and it indicates that Britain is in big trouble

Fifty years ago at the Palace of Versailles, French and American designers went head-to-head as the likes of Liza Minelli, Princess Grace, Andy Warhol and Rudolf Nureyev looked on

The former PM owes us all one for the referendum; at least there will be one sensible voice around the cabinet table arguing for closer ties

His sudden and unexpected reappearance in Downing Street can mean only one thing: David Cameron IS Doctor Who

A new book by photographer Kevin Cummins captures the ghost of the Thin White Duke in the German city he once called home

A walk in the footsteps of Philip Kerr’s fictional detective, who cracked cases and heads in Nazi-era and cold war Berlin

The first recorded purchase of Shakespeare’s collected works came 400 years ago – and the compendium soon crossed into Europe

This Joaquin Phoenix epic fails to nail its big idea, or the motivation of its subject

Five weeks on the island in the late 19th century changed the artist’s perspective for ever

A good roast potato is incomparable and, luckily, the rest of Europe is in agreement

English has a number of words borrowed from Urdu-Hindi, many of which arrived when British Indian Army soldiers returned to ‘Blighty’

Malle’s unique approach to cinema meant he was always on the hunt for ways to freshen things up, no matter the risk

Will greater and digitised access to our history result in a more enriched cultural future?