Opinion

The country is usually seen as a force for stability and symbol of solidity on the international stage. But is that actually so?

MITCH BENN imagines what will happen next if lorry driver training standards are relaxed.

Arsène Wenger has proposed the idea of having a World Cup every two years. ROB HUGHES asks if this his own voice speaking, or that of his paymasters at FIFA HQ

Not if the reformed, revived, stripped-down The Specials have anything to say about it.

Post-war Germany has been characterised by good governance and solid leadership. But as the country goes to the polls to replace Angela Merkel, Germans – and the wider world – fear its good run is coming to an end.

BONNIE GREER slams the 'Texas Taliban' over the strict abortion laws in Georgia and Louisiana.

Britain faces a shortage of pumpkins this Halloween, and fewer fireworks on November 5.

How will shoppers adapt to empty shelves in supermarkets? NIGEL WARBURTON, one of the world’s most-read philosophers, offers his thoughts.

WILL SELF on the culture of protests and the global environmental movement

He spoke no English, and had never seen an American Football before but Toni Fritsch was a natural, and he went on to change the game forever.

It's impossible to think of European cinema without Jean-Paul Belmondo

Needs must, even picking a cabinet for a prime minister he considers the worst in living memory. ALASTAIR CAMPBELL grits his teeth and offers Boris Johnson some valuable advice.

The UK is falling behind the European Union on tackling climate change.

Young people are ‘woke’ and radical about politics, climate and culture, while older people are conservative or reactionary. Everyone is angry with everyone else. That’s what we are told... but is it actually true?

Not all languages use the same terms to describe skin colour, writes PETER TRUDGILL.

As David Frost moans about the deal they both agreed, Michel Barnier is entering the race to be Franceʼs president.

BONNIE GREER on how the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center were an attempt to destroy the American Dream.

Food writer JOSH BARRIE brings readers a recipe from Irish chef Richard Corrigan, known for his controversial humour but, more importantly, his soda bread

STEVE RICHARDS’ new book profiles 11 politicians who came close to getting into Number 10. But only one, he argues, would have truly changed British history...

Comedian MITCH BENN considers how Abba's new technology could be used in politics...

The composer prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called the "universal Greek" died last week. Few have had the relationship with revolution that Theodorakis did, writes SOPHIA DEBOICK

Italy is not only in it's financial conundrum. The summer transfer window shows the unequal distribution of wealth in global football, writes ROB HUGHES

One writer not only pioneered satire, but also the literary feud, writes CHARLIE CONNELLY

Teenage girls are crazy, writes MEGAN NOLAN. Discover a show that doesn't shy away from that.

The Venice Film Festival brings the return of huge movies... but JASON SOLOMONS prefers European masters and a Soho surprise

A stunning new sculpture in a disused Spanish lighthouse seems to offer a portal to the earth’s core.

It has been a gloomy week on the sunlit uplands of sovereign Britain, as the smell of rotting and burning produce hits the nostrils of all. Or not quite...

JAMES BALL examines the areas where Britain is now feeling the painful consequences of its departure from the EU.