The Departed

Faced with electoral oblivion, their reckless actions risk inflicting damage on the country that will take many years to repair

The late poet was a natural anarchist and a one-off whose like we will not see again

From the unmistakable face of The Pogues to an actor whose beauty often masked her brilliance, they summed up the defiance and the diversity of a continent

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

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

By hacking journalists, Russia is trying to stifle our democracy’s information flow

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

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

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

In August, the Conservative life peer threatened legal action over our ‘Stop This Boat’ front page

Faced with electoral oblivion, their reckless actions risk inflicting damage on the country that will take many years to repair

The late poet was a natural anarchist and a one-off whose like we will not see again

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

From the unmistakable face of The Pogues to an actor whose beauty often masked her brilliance, they summed up the defiance and the diversity of a continent

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

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

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

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

There are many interpretations of its meaning. Are we witness to a dark memory, a sexual desire or a surrealist Pinocchio?

A husband-and-wife team filmed a classic Polish novel, then made another film from paintings of it. Why?

On I’m a Celebrity, Farage failed to emulate the former shadow chancellor Ed Balls by reinventing himself as a cuddly media personality

This dish is comforting, resourceful cooking and a tremendous way to use up turkey not eaten on Christmas Day

The Americans have already had their big turkey meal of the year – and Thanksgiving owes a debt to Greece and to harvest festivals

His zeal doused by public apathy and establishment ambivalence, Albert became gradually overwhelmed by disillusionment

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