Opinion

Proper reporting is fading out as papers shrink or fold. Who will hold the powerful to account?

Donald Trump swore he would face down the world – then blinked first. His aura is damaged for ever

Is it too much to hope that, eventually, Trump’s constant lying and backtracking will be enough to bring down his administration?

Scholz’s successor will exceed expectations – but only as the bar for the chancellor-designate has been set so low

President Milei is selling out his own country and its indigenous people along with it

As the world has gone mad around us, the simpler things in life have become all the more important – like birdwatching

The diagnosis for cancer patients and researchers has got considerably worse since we left the EU. Does the government have the courage to act?

I just really hate the Austrian capital even though I always assumed I’d love it

Is the increasing influence of American linguistic usages in Britain making us stiff-upper-lip types more ‘touchy-feely’?

One minute he was the king of cosy Sunday night TV, the next he was on GB News ranting about Covid-creating elites and turbo cancer. What went wrong?

Klaus Schwab, the man who founded the Davos summit, had a vision for the world. But things haven’t turned out the way he wanted

Most of us are happy to live and let live, but objected to being told that we were bigots, transphobes or Nazis

The media often describes terrorists as manifestations of evil, or as zombie-like products of indoctrination, but we urgently need a better account than that

Astronomers have detected potential biosignatures on exoplanet K2-18b, but experts warn that the evidence is inconclusive

Despite the Canadian PM’s stunning win, it does not follow that being tough with the US will be good for Starmer or Britain

The former deputy PM wants you to listen to his big ideas about the EU. But does anyone care?

In a world reordered by Trump, The Handmaid’s Tale is now more relevant than Nineteen Eighty-Four

A massive 46% of our exports and imports are via Europe - so why not make that easier?

Society fails survivors of child sexual exploitation over and over

Spain is still mourning its Civil War dead. But not everyone sees the nation’s history in quite the same way

To understand why they are finding it so difficult to become adults, we need to look at where we all went wrong

Deep inside the Vatican, in a highly secret location, a group of carpenters were tasked with creating a very special casket

Farage and Badenoch are making fools of themselves over a completely benign scheme

Will a focus on cheaper food and energy be enough to drown out complaints about sovereignty and fishing rights – especially when the PM struggles to communicate?

He is a life-long property developer. So how the hell did he end up as America’s top international negotiator, on everything from Ukraine to the Iran nuclear deal?

The UK and EU are keen on a defence and security pact, but there is a catch – fish. Tensions over who controls Europe’s waters go back hundreds of years

The oversight board Mark Zuckerberg set up has criticised him, and ruled that anti-Muslim content should be removed. Will he now silence them?

Didcot in Oxfordshire is known as the most ‘normal’ town in England – and also symbolises the emergence of a new, liberal England

The party must act: a wealth tax, rejoin the EU, bring in proportional representation. In other words, start behaving like a Labour government

Half a century ago, a humiliated America scrambled out of a losing war. But parallels with Ukraine show little has changed