Opinion

Rassemblement National’s European election candidate Jordan Bardella was humiliated in a TV debate. So why do opinion polls say he won?

Even in a country where smoking remains socially acceptable, restrictions still look likely to be widely acknowledged

As their election nears, Belgians political tensions are growing deeper

The beleaguered British public deserve better than this morally impoverished Tory government

The conflict in Gaza is raising tensions across the world, but Gibraltar’s historic Muslim and Jewish communities maintain harmony

Many actors, in real life, are the opposite of who they portray or seem to be

Skilled European workers are deserting the UK and Starmer could find a route to bring them back

The elusive F1 legend’s 10-year silence has fuelled a media frenzy in Germany

The Champions League final explains why sport is so compelling – because it tells and retells the tales that we long to hear

His ‘offer’ should be understood for what it is: an invitation to the west to sign its own death warrant

Is someone in the prime minister’s team deliberately trying to derail his campaign from within?

What the right wing papers think about Raynergate, the triple lock plus and private schools

The founder of the Reform Party may seem to be finished in British politics. But he is still capable of causing untold damage

New Tory policies are designed to stop their voters from backing Richard Tice. Instead they should be focused on potential switchers to Labour

Mandrake has been informed she has already attracted serious financial backing

A new report by EMMA Association has highlighted the discrimination Romani women have faced after fleeing the war

The British state needs to work very differently – what are the Labour leader’s big ideas?

Of course American students have the right to protest over Gaza. But what happens as a result may put Donald Trump back in the White House

Putin is spinning the pro-Russian narrative of an unwinnable war for Ukraine and the west

Jeremy Hunt says Labour wants to turn Britain into France. Would that be such a bad idea?

A battle between Ocado and local residents shows that Labour has a Nimby problem

Rishi Sunak’s admission that no failed asylum seekers will be flown to Africa before the election concludes a senseless, costly shambles

Why are so many MPs standing down at the election?

Leaving the EU won’t be a campaign issue for the big parties - but voters may think differently

The prime minister needs to realise voters don’t like being lied to

Rachel Reeves is right - the government is gaslighting the country over the economy

Rishi Sunak’s gamble on going to the country looks sure to rebound

It would take a lot more than a change in government to turn around the lives of some of the pupils at The Heath – but it would be a start

There are good reasons to believe that Labour in power will be better and go further than you think

The electorate will see through any attempt to frighten them into yet another period of government by the doomed Tories

Germany’s most successful club finished third in the Bundesliga and ended the season without a trophy – despite Harry Kane’s best efforts