Opinion

Why do oligarchs – and their defamation lawyers – still have the power to silence all criticism?

The paper loathes Labour and its PM - and that won’t change. So why are they still so keen to please it?

There are far too many questions over the former first minister's behaviour towards women for warm eulogies

Is AI really science, or just hi-tech number crunching?

The Labour prime minister has said the way to kickstart the British economy is to cut red tape. What the hell is he thinking?

The private equity industry – a wealth-extracting machine – is swallowing up UK businesses and stripping them of their assets while our politicians stand by

Europe's greatest ever treasure hunt is over, leaving thousands bereft

The PM is running out of time to change the narrative around his government’s shaky start

Boris Johnson sounded more unhinged than unleashed while defending his pet project

The IFS delivers a gloomy verdict that will put pressure on the chancellor for tax rises and spending cuts

His attempts to pin the Brexit blame on David Cameron say everything about this egotistical inadequate

The leadership race increasingly looks like the last hurrah before the party's long descent

If Labour can restore a sense of community, it will reap as much political benefit as any amount of good economic data

Online life has changed over the past five years or so, and not for the better. The algorithm has taken over entirely

The Frenchman won seven Grand Slam singles titles in the 1920s before becoming an innovator in the world of sportswear and tennis equipment

The word repechage was heard regularly at this summer’s Olympics, but its modern usage bears little relation to its original meaning

Joker: Folie à Deux takes music and makes it a medium for deception, pain and lethal misunderstanding

Le Beaujolais, London’s oldest French wine bar, is a timeless haven of wit, warmth and wonder

Constable’s painting has become an icon of Englishness. But its first cheerleaders were French

After co-writing The Thick of It and Veep, Ian Martin channels his most absurd politician yet – Boris Johnson

The male film director who puts powerful females first

By the time another election looms, Conservative MPs will sniff potential doom and ditch their leader for a more Machiavellian individual

All eyes are on vice-chancellor Habeck as his plans for the party fail to pay off

Brussels is frustrated by Keir Starmer’s red lines – and baffled by the same old talk from his new government

As US citizens, we can no longer physically return to the ‘land of our birth’, because it no longer exists except in our memories

Now stoking rumours about Keir Starmer’s private life, the right wing activist uses her journalistic platform to push her political agenda

The Russian leader remains an agent of chaos, and as Iran may soon find out, he only has one issue in mind – his own self-interest

Remainers are facing up to the need for a change of tack to push the PM further towards Europe

Putting a cherished but broken NHS at the centre of a complex moral argument is fraught with danger

Is her forthcoming memoir’s defence of abortion an indication that Republicans won’t be so hardline on this issue if elected?

Scientific American magazine has endorsed Kamala Harris, but many in the science community have their concerns