Opinion

The row over divergence from EU standards has exposed the myth of “Brexit freedoms”

This extract from Martin Sixsmith’s new book explores how Putinism emerged from the country’s brutal history

Tax recommendations from the super rich merely confirm that they have disproportionate power

Jeremy Corbyn is thought to be mulling the launch of a new left wing party

It would do men a lot of good to go out in a dress for a few days and feel the wind of change it occasions

UK police are investigating the first sexual assault in a virtual reality world. Does the future look like this?

Poland’s pensioners will not be swayed from their belief that Tusk sold their country to Russia and Germany

The country’s state of military readiness is laughable to other nations

Bulgarians are tired of being treated as second-class citizens by the EU

Reading is not the preferred choice of recreation for France’s youth

I am looking forward to the Tories’ demise at the next general election, but it is our entire political system that must radically change, and for good

Today, the man who fled the Spanish civil war for Cleckheaton would’ve been deemed part of an ‘invasion’

Have Boris Johnson’s hopes and promises come true in the four years since we left the EU?

In every election since 2010, fear has beaten hope but change is on the horizon

Olaf Scholz is helping the AfD blend in when they need to be singled out

The current iteration of the Conservative Party might well have grounds to sue The Traitors’ creators for plagiarism

The House of Lords, where real monarchy lies, must be abolished

Despite facing 91 felony charges, Trump is going to be the Republican presidential nominee. He is a dictator-in-waiting

The Tories treat being poor as a fact of life for many. Labour can’t do the same

The Florida governor’s big ideas included a map of human faeces as he burned his way through $150m

The former prime minister’s return to frontline politics hasn’t gone quite as he expected

Rishi Sunak has little incentive to fix the NHS’s problems

Power is not given – it must be taken

We investigated 274 suspects - and secured only one conviction

This government has run down the armed forces like no other

The government is failing at everything apart from record levels of gaslighting

Why else back a prime minister who trails in the last eight polls by an average of 19 points?

Until our broken electoral system is fixed, we need to play Westminster at its own game

Bringing an end to the Tories' real-life psychodrama could finally give satirists something to work with

A former top civil servant in the government’s digital unit: “It’s not a question of whether there will be another Horizon. It’s when”

I’m old enough to remember what life was like before the generality of houses and flats were centrally heated – and now I’m experiencing it again