Opinion

The debate over the future of the new technology was between the US and EU. The danger for Britain is that we begin to look irrelevant

The third instalment of Mike White's acclaimed series is back with its usual love of mystery, lurking lust and dark humour

The industry is split about Reform’s leader appearing at their rallies against inheritance tax

Not even his shocked closest allies know what drove Donald Trump’s Ukraine sell-out

The programme’s swipes at the far right, GB News and toxic men have outraged some viewers

Closer EU alignment would boost growth, strengthen our hand against an unpredictable US and set a trap for Farage and Badenoch

Greenland, the Panama Canal, trade wars, the Gaza riviera, surrendering to Putin – and it’s only week three. Most of it won’t happen. But some of it might. And that’s the problem

This Munich moment means Starmer must borrow to rearm, then forge stronger ties with the EU

Politicians like Starmer and Scholz govern while looking over their shoulders. Rightists like Trump are more adept at concentrating power and using it

In a response to a critical analysis in the New European, Best for Britain argues that its growth numbers on greater UK-EU alignment do make sense, and that they reflect political reality

If even just one place were to open in a big city, and start offering decently priced, unfussy French bistro classics, they would become gazillionaires in a matter of weeks

What might be most enamouring about the gourmet bistro in Trondheim is that it doesn’t share the ludicrous prices of some of its more famous Scandi counterparts

Damien Hirst’s work is stale, insular, highly lucrative. Why were we ever taken in by him?

The plans she has suggested so far will only yield economic benefits years into the future. But what can she do straight away?

A Leave-voting fisheries owner from the red wall was invited to praise Brexit – but told the channel it had been a disaster for his business

Half a century after oil and gas were discovered under the North Sea, Shetland is still enjoying the benefits that England threw away

A sumptuously illustrated book of interviews with the director reveals his extraordinary love of the monumental

As Donald Trump begins his sell out of Ukraine, one novelist reflects how, despite Putin’s brutality, Zelensky has held Ukraine together. Is Trump’s America about to change this?

The party has lost its identity and risks sliding into obscurity under the rudderless leadership of Kemi Badenoch

The president and his acolytes are creating a whole new way of running a country – and this is only the beginning

For philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers, phone crime is ‘more akin to assault’

A new futurist exhibition, Breaking Lines: Futurism and the Origins of Experimental Poetry, offers a warning about alliances with fascism

One Sheffield man brought his world crashing down with an unwise post on X. But should he have ended up in court?

The scale of Ahmed al-Sharaa’s victory is immense. But, the challenge of rebuilding his shattered country is even greater

A recent psychological study revealed how the country picks its politicians. The results were nothing short of depressing

As a universal criterion applied to individuals, the president’s executive order on gender ideology is hopeless

The world’s second-biggest annual beer festival, surprisingly, takes place in Blumenau, Brazil’s ‘garden city’

The city is a prime example of why Pedro Sánchez has cracked down on people from outside the EU buying property in Spain

Claimed to have aphrodisiac effects, Italy’s most iconic dessert was born inside the brothels of Treviso to ‘refuel’ clients

Once divided on independence from Denmark, the Faroe Islands now see a clear path forward – and it’s largely down to Donald Trump