Opinion

Barça’s new manager, Hansi Flick, must understand one simple fact: he is faced with a virtually impossible task

The delusional europhobes want to set up a museum of Brexit. Here are a few ideas to get them going

Starmer’s decision to cut heating benefits for pensioners is woeful politics, and Labour MPs are in despair

He was the future once, but now French voters are heading for the extremes

Labour has inherited a jails crisis. Its short-term decision to release prisoners will be unpopular. The long-term answer might be even more so

The favourite to become the next Tory leader, once a vociferous Leaver, now seems loathe to mention it

Jonathan Reynolds’ reaction to business and trade questions mark an important turning point

The French president’s new choice of PM shows that his political project has ended in failure

The Grenfell inquiry report is damning and heartbreaking

… And that’s why he almost certainly has no chance as the Conservatives start voting

For secular people, death places the sort of minor inconveniences which, for the most part, irradiate our mundane lives, in a savage sort of proportion

There are some foods that work to a near-unfathomable degree. This is that: a total, unadulterated masterstroke of a lunch

The Republican presidential nominee has claimed to have divine protection – but there is a violent threat behind his ‘God whistles’

Keir Starmer pledged no tax rises for working people, yet that’s impossible. Unless, of course, he drops his red lines on the single market and customs union

How a biographer’s aside, the Mail’s performative outrage and the BBC’s cowardice led to a media storm over a portrait of Mrs Thatcher

Replacing unfair, outdated levies with taxes based on land value would benefit 77% of us and help the country level up

Predictably, the right wing paper has gone back on its promise to stop obsessing about immigration

Fusion won’t arrive soon enough to solve global warming but it could become a commercial reality in the second half of the century

The idea of a Trump victory that forces Ukraine to settle with Putin is too vile to contemplate

Our armed forces are not fit for purpose. Here’s how to fix them

During a recent book event with school children in Glasgow, the issue didn't register highly on their radar

If Rachel Reeves wants to be a truly reforming chancellor, she should embrace a more radical approach to accounting

Many of us are hoping the prime minister's policy doesn't stray from pragmatic to heavy-handed

I may not be a fan of Oasis, but people’s excitement about their reunion is infectious

Siena’s chaotic horse race is over in a minute and a half, but the plotting goes on all year round

Without a dominant culture, it appears everyone can fit in in Brussels

With so many plates spinning, John Swinney must now hope they don’t all come crashing down

The country has seen months of increasing political tensions paired with rising temperatures

Dani Karavan's Passages honours the memory of Walter Benjamin, who took his own life in Portbou when faced with being handed over to the Gestapo