Opinion

The Kinnock family and the Labour party have lost a matriarch

As he spoke, his backbenches could barely bring themselves to cheer

The prime minister’s “win” has set him up for weeks of losing

The prime minister’s lack of diplomacy and tact cost the UK global relationships

This is how the world ends – not with a bang, but whimpering about “open” crumb by people with more time, less sense, and more money than they should

What draws Italy’s populist leader, along with a number of other far-right politicians, to the work of JRR Tolkien?

Each new performance is a comment on his genius.. and his vile antisemitism

The environmental activist group have made their name through eye-catching and disruptive protests. But what do they really think – and why are they doing it?

Riddled with foreign ownership, a number of Britain’s biggest newspapers have developed some very telling blind spots

Some Tory MPs still dream of Boris Johnson returning as PM. After his Covid inquiry appearance, are they mad?

The government’s migration plans are a cruel mess that will harm British business – and they know it

Putin’s Russia is a chaos engine and we are letting him get away with it

This take on Federico García Lorca’s classic left me dazed and speechless

Taking advantage of Italy’s one euro houses is not as easy as it sounds

The number of refugees arriving in Athens is out of control

The whole Rwanda debacle is just a deceit to fool some voters and try to please the Tory backbenchers.

Geoffrey Chaucer’s legacy should be as a great European, not as a quintessentially English writer

Having finished third on I’m a Celebrity, Nasty Nigel will no doubt be back on our screens with further cynical attempts to detoxify his public image

The way the country is neglecting the younger generations amounts to criminal negligence

Bulgaria’s local elections exhibited the country’s unstable democracy

Their absurd arguments are cover for their own impending irrelevance

Faced with electoral oblivion, their reckless actions risk inflicting damage on the country that will take many years to repair

High wage growth means tough choices ahead for the Bank of England

By hacking journalists, Russia is trying to stifle our democracy’s information flow

In August, the Conservative life peer threatened legal action over our ‘Stop This Boat’ front page

The PM’s Covid inquiry testimony foundered on his basic inability to do politics well

The social media site is a mess. The Mayor of Paris has just left it, and as more high profile individuals leave, it will fade into irrelevance

How did the strange 1970s British film became a cult classic?

He’s fighting for freedom – and that’s what the Kremlin can’t stand

The Young European Movement has launched a campaign urging the UK government to rejoin the EU’s study-abroad project

The artwork, worth £1.4m has been taken down in Leave-supporting Dover