Opinion

Iain Softley’s cult 1994 directorial debut chronicles the Beatles’ wild early days in Hamburg’s red-light district

Just a quarter of people think the UK should be outside the EU - but no party leader is talking about it

Starmer is offering more reform than at first meets the eye

The papers aren’t bystanders any more – they’re political participants

My great-great-grandfather’s behaviour transcends the stuffy confines of respectable churchmen in the 1880s

On July 4, I will be celebrating the defenestration of the Tory party, but not without regrets over what has been lost

One of Keir Starmer’s first challenges as prime minister will be to navigate the fragmenting world order

Dogwhistling louder than ever and dominating UK political TikTok, Nigel Farage is setting himself up to win the 2029 election

Are Sunak’s advisers so politically inept that they could not see the enormity of the own goal they were about to score?

As the country prepares to host Europe’s biggest footballing extravaganza, here are my insider tips for navigating Germany like a local

Continental players brought skill and intelligence to an isolationist British game. Could our politicians learn from that?

Three out of the top five restaurants in the world were Spanish this year. Why?

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s television and books

Farage is wrong: immigrants make a positive contribution to our economy. Why won’t anyone say so?

These suggestions for the next government would be quick and easy to implement, and would not cost a fortune

Brussels has become synonymous with the European Parliament, but the real city is far removed from the exclusive little EU island inside the capital

Forty years ago, striking miners were lied to about the EU’s role in closing pits. No wonder so many went on to vote Leave in 2016

Be it football or politics, Georgians know the importance of unity

Voting is the baseline. Both the most ordinary and the most radically effective thing you’ll have the chance to do this decade

In calling a summer election, the prime minister reduced the power of the younger vote in Britain’s university cities

The more the prime minister lies, the more cynical voters become over the state of the country

A load of cobblers, written by charlatans, promoted by the deluded

The hard right has boomed under Macron – that will be his epitaph

Amid faint glimmers of hope, the European elections showed that a politics the world hoped was long gone is back on the march

They won’t win the election - but at least they are the adults in the room

Macron is playing a dangerous game by calling an election – and if Le Pen wins, we all lose

For years, the French hard right has cast a perpetual shadow over the country’s politics

The G7 and EU must make up their minds about what to do with €300 billion of Russia’s frozen assets

Georgia Meloni’s favourite swanky hotel is not all it seems

He’s not going to become PM, but he’s already taught Starmer and Sunak a lesson

The D-day farce said it all about Rishi Sunak – but also about the papers that have slavishly supported him