Opinion

I found her rudeness breathtaking and her eagerness to take credit for the work of others disconcerting

The younger man succeeded Paul Dacre as editor of the Daily Mail. Now he might pip him to a peerage

Genomics England is looking for a head of internal communications amid whispers of a sell-off

Sarina Wiegman, the mastermind of that Euros win, is steeped in a rich coaching tradition

The plot to depose Italy’s PM is good news for Silvio Berlusconi, the country’s far right – and Vladimir Putin

Humiliated over its Ukraine response, the country is again debating its position in Europe and the wider world

Why Germany is swaying to the sound of a controversial hit

Liz Truss’s promises are as empty, illogical and deceitful as Boris Johnson’s. No wonder she’s favourite to win the Tory leadership

A new book examines not only an iconic film and novel, but of the pillar that holds them up – white supremacy

Both Tory leadership contenders clearly want to be tough on immigration to appease the many ultras in their party, writes one reader

We don’t need a pragmatic or evolutionary reason to value butterflies. There's a simple joy in seeing them

The time has come for Europeans to take back control of the world’s most popular juvenescent fashion statement

Colonialists of all stripes have squeezed the island’s indigenous languages out in favour of Mandarin and Hokkien

Public service radio orchestras have played far more than just a cultural role over the last century but they are now under threat

We should have just enjoyed a World Cup, but money means this year's will take place in winter

The death of David Trimble comes as his historic legacy has never seemed under greater threat

The torture and destruction of Ukraine is just a practice run for the same routine to be used against Europe

Anyone coming into No 10 with the slightest hope of fixing Britain would need to acknowledge it is actually broken, and neither of the Conservative leadership candidates can do that

Its promise of a new patriotism was dashed by Brexit, but some say it was built on a mirage all along

The words 'Prime minister Liz Truss' finally spell doom for the satire industry

As competence joins fact-based debate in the dustbin of Brexit Britain’s history, queues mount at airports and Eurotunnel terminals

Delays on the rail network saw the former Liberal leader's long-delayed farewell party delayed even longer

Damian Aspinall's Aspers UK Holdings ran up a £16.2m loss on £13.4m in sales in 2021

The former chancellor's wife has been hit with a £5m loss at Acamar Films, in which she holds 2,000 shares through her investment arm, Catamaran Ventures

In lamenting NHS failures, the former Tory leadership hopeful seems to have forgotten who was in charge for six years

With his backing for Kemi Badenoch, the former levelling up secretary once again demonstrated his reverse Midas touch

If the Daily Mail chief heads to the House of Lords, expect big changes at the titles he leaves behind

Transport is the only sector where greenhouse gas emissions have increased in the past three decades. Now a backlash is growing, with forward-thinking mayors spearheading new visions of urban centres

Italy’s unusually stable government under the experienced Mario Draghi is poised to collapse and take the country back to the days of ineffective alliances and controversial populists

Will a catastrophic summer in Europe deliver real change on climate policy? Not while states remain captured by fossil fuel interests

Ali Goldsworthy, Laura Osborne and Alexandra Chesterfield’s book, Poles Apart, dives into the causes and solutions to increasing polarisation