Opinion

She was an actress and a writer, but more importantly Erika Mann spent her life witnessing and fighting injustice

TIM WALKER, a one-time parliamentary candidate for the centre party, on how members feel about its former leader, now one of the social network’s senior figures

PATRICK SAWER on his Italian immigrant mother’s quiet English patriotism

Do not underestimate Joe Biden's decisions over the withdrawal of troops in Afghanistan - he knows what he is doing.

MITCH BENN imagines the books right-wing figureheads would release if only they had a few more holidays...

The disappearance of this archaic term represents a genuine loss for the English language, says PETER TRUDGILL

NIGEL WARBURTON, one of the world’s most-read philosophers, on the 'Trolley Problem' and why life is more complex than the theory suggests.

CHARLIE CONNELLY on an British master of travel writing, exploring memories of the Spanish Civil War by following the route of the memorable 1941 Vuelta a Espana bicycle race

Food writer JOSH BARRIE brings readers a recipe from a man known as the Godfather of Spanish food, featuring a fish that the British are only beginning to get a taste for

President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus joins the ranks of dictators who have been musically mocked, writes SOPHIA DEBOICK

Gerd Müller, who died earlier this month, was not only a Bayern Munich icon but a man who gave Germans their pride again. So when he fell, club and country helped pick him up By ROB HUGHES

FLORENCE HALLETT investigates how the painter’s discovery of ancient Iberian art changed his work forever.

The threat from 21st century fascism is not of a modern day March on Rome or a beerhall putsch. It's far more insidious. By PAUL MASON, the broadcaster and author of a new book on the subject

100 years ago today, thousands of people witnessed the R.38 airship explode in the air, fall from the sky and plummet in the Humber estuary

Pubs could run out of beer over the bank holiday weekend days after Nando's were forced to close due to a lack of chicken.

Readers respond to a letter from a voter in Sheffield who now backs Brexit.

Will Self on the sobering experience of his brother-in-law's wake in the Hand in Hand on Brixton hill

Giuseppe Meazza was the greatest footballer Milan, and arguably Italy, ever produced, meaning many turned a blind eye to his excessive habits

LIONEL BARBER considers the Republicans who might pick up the MAGA mantle and bid for the White House

The 'global Britain' mantra from Boris Johnson's government is as much hot air as its 'levelling up' agenda

The country’s media is being forced back to the dark days of the Iron Curtain, warns ex-Europe minister DENIS MACSHANE, a former journalist once arrested in Warsaw by the communist authorities

The Sami people are divided by several different languages and thousands of kilometres of inhospitable terrain. What does it all tell us about this remotely dispersed population?

The Argentine's departure from the Catalan club has been the saga of the summer. But as this exclusive extract from a new book by SIMON KUPER shows, the footballing and financial relationship had been dysfunctional for several seasons

Lionel Messi’s signing for PSG completes a glittering attacking line-up, but an ageing one, says TNE football writer ROB HUGHES

Eight months after the end of the transition period, how are UK companies faring outside the EU? MARK MARDELL investigates

As two new books and an artist’s opera project revisit the enigmatic Maria Callas, the best way to understand her is by focusing on the most obvious place.. the stage.

The coming century will belong to the Global South, and the Global North needs to come to terms with that

The comedian and broadcaster is back with a conspiracy theorist's guide to the great British holiday

The secretive artist whose works command millions at auction has returned with new street pieces in Great Yarmouth and other eastern coastal towns. But as prices continue to rise, what is it like to have been one of the early adopters who bought one of his early prints for a song nearly 20 years ago?

EMMA LUCK on how tax breaks, pandemic management and ambitious studio plans are helping Spain film its way to recovery in the shadow of Covid-10.

Mathieu Boogaerts has set himself an ambitious task: teaching the English about French chanson

CHARLIE CONNELLY on three new books of poetry on strikingly different themes: a sixth century saint, an endangered species and the everyday episodes which take place in a supermarket