Opinion

The Taoiseach’s admission about Brexit errors is not the climbdown they think it is

A new poll should concern Keir Starmer as much as Rishi Sunak

The mythology of the Glencoe massacre endures to this day. It would take historians and spin doctors far greater than I to erase this

People may want someone or something to blame for Covid. But we have to get used to the idea of just living with it

After Covid, Europe has just about dealt with another global crisis over Ukraine. Yet competing visions mean its own future is uncertain

The riptide of 20th century politics had pulled him from his homeland and set him adrift. A tumultuous period that soon defined his work

Stop smirking, Jeremy Hunt! And do anything you can to avoid needing the NHS, Steve Barclay…

As the battle for rights continues in Iran, Afghanistan and the USA, new fronts are opening up in Europe

The Republican front-runner would be a fool to write off his former friend

Spielberg, Mendes and a year of film nostalgia

Three works which will require room on your shelves

This will be the year Scottish artists put IndyRef2 on their setlists

The game of football, and the world, has lost one of its very finest

Jailed for being too political, Mikhail Khodorkovsky says it will take a generation for Russia to recover from his former friend’s vicious and disastrous rule

Migrants on the southern border are causing France to re-examine its own history

“In Britain we have hot-water bottles; on the continent, they have sex.” And nowhere is that more true than in Germany…

Welcome to your new, continental playlist

For Beijing’s leaders, globalisation is no longer an opportunity but a weapon

He used to organise Vladimir Putin’s meals. How did he become such a threat to Russia's dictator?

Rishi Sunak is leading a broken government blind to their errors

Charity shops are for the most part either full of dismal tat; or, are like Oxfam’s specialist bookshops: stocked with the crème of the haute bourgeoisie’s discarded… crème

There was something inherently British about Ngozi Fulani and Lady Hussey's reconciliation

Jacob Rees-Mogg isn’t what he seems

Boris Johnson - the man who brought himself down not once, but twice

Even for atheists, some of what he preaches is worth considering as secular moral philosophy

Gianni Infantino ignores the evidence that footballers’ bodies need to rest like any other athletes

Brussels is gripped by fears that Qatargate might expand, with populists and Putin ready to capitalise

Hidden for nearly 200 years, the embalmed organ that symbolises the bond – and tensions – between Portugal and Brazil has now gone public

Sint-Nicolaas will be visiting children in the Netherlands as usual this year – but Zwarte Piet won’t be going with him

Christmas markets defy the logic of “seen one, seen them all”. They just have one thing in common: the magic of the festive season

In the Year of Three UK Prime Ministers, there were more villains than heroes. We remember some of the most memorable