Opinion

Grief is the long-lasting flame that keeps memories alive. As Queen Elizabeth herself said, “grief is the price we pay for love”

Who really was 'The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo'?

Look past the Irish clichés in Colin Farrell’s Venice award-winner and you’ll find a beautiful, bleakly comic movie

The French Resistance has often been portrayed in a less than serious light, but that could not be further from the truth, as the memoirs of Marie Chamming’s illustrate

Jonas Fjeld kicked off his career by trying to make the worst record in history. This year, he now celebrates 50 years of success in the industry

How two different forms of the Celtic language continue to influence modern surnames and pronunciations

This recipe is enlivening, sustainable and far superior to salmon en croute

Robert Lewandowski embarks on a new chapter in his striking career

Popper never accepted the idea that people did not know about the Holocaust or the gulags, rather they chose not to know. For him, knowledge was a moral obligation

Liz Truss's cabinet isn't as diverse as it seems, despite what the prime minister says

Hamnet’s Maggie O’Farrell creates another major work from one of history’s minor characters

Sweden’s big parties took up populist talking points to kill off the far right. Instead, the extremists are close to power – and getting worse

Germany isn't a country of royalists, but we turned into a republic of Elizabethans

Comedian MITCH BENN on what advice Boris Johnson may have penned to Liz Truss as he left Downing Street

The EU has offered to scrap almost all border checks but the new PM may not be allowed to listen to logic

Populists have struck at the heart of European social democracy

An accident of timing gave me my name, and a lifelong interest in the royals

Amid the respect, there was some sorrow for what has been lost - not just the ruler, but her country

Is it the small size of Scotland’s population that gives them a linguistic kink: a desire to reduce everything to the compass of a cosy domesticity?

There are better places to generate electricity than farmland, writes one reader

In Rome, to remember the past and our common humanity, sometimes you must look down

Another transfer window shows a sport increasingly at wild odds with the lives of those who follow it

The man who oversaw the breakup of the Soviet Union was an apparatchik who wanted to keep the Communist Party in power, says former head of MI6

Keir Starmer's performance during this coming winter of discontent will decide whether he becomes prime minister in the future

Liz Truss looks set to follow in the footsteps of her predecessor and play to the crowd rather than take her responsibilities seriously

A certain group of Brexiteers have got everything they wanted - but they still yearn for the impossible

A willingness to adapt rather than stick with the ways of the past would be beneficial for the contemporary political environment

There are few things Germans have a closer bond to than the woods and now they're under threat. However, there is hope...

Since the inception of his new nickname, Joe Biden has racked up a few victories

Economic turmoil will test Britain's new prime minister

After Brexit killed freedom of movement, how easy is it to live in the EU for Brits in despair?