P&O Ferries may not regret breaking law, but the UK should regret dealing with its owner | Nils Pratley
More than a few business chancers have appeared before Commons select committees over the years, but it’s hard to recall a chief executive who has...
Ted Cruz and the ‘racist baby’: sometimes reality threatens my political maturity | Emma Brockes
For sheer drama, we will probably never match the spectacle of Judge Brett Kavanaugh snivelling through his supreme court confirmation hearings in 2018. But this...
Putin may ramp up his war in Ukraine – here’s how Nato should respond | Ivo Daalder
Nato leaders are meeting for an emergency summit in Brussels today to address the war in Ukraine. While there, they must discuss and agree on...
I have covered countless Tory mini-budgets. The cruelty of this one shocked even me | Polly Toynbee
This was a great “levelling down”, with two-thirds of Rishi Sunak’s giveaways in his spring statement going to the top half of earners. At least...
Deutsche Börse photography prize review – striking imagery of global belonging
This year’s Deutsche Börse photography prize shortlist show is, as ever, a study in dramatically contrasting approaches to the medium. On one floor of The...
Michael Grade: from showbiz royalty and ‘pornographer-in-chief’ to Ofcom chair
Michael Grade, the Tory peer who has been put forward as the government’s choice to chair the broadcasting regulator Ofcom, is one of the most...
‘He helped shape the modern world’: gif inventor Stephen Wilhite dies after getting Covid
Wilhite worked for Compuserve until 2001, after he had a stroke. Meanwhile, gifs’ popularity took off, including on early social media sites such as MySpace....
‘You cannot put the pain into words’: Anoosheh Ashoori on his detention in Iran
Sitting in the front room of his house in south London, surrounded by his wife, daughter and four excited dogs, Anoosheh Ashoori admits that at...
Sulky Sunak is as thin-skinned as any other politician with eye on top job | John Crace
It normally takes at least a couple of days for a budget to unravel. But the chancellor’s spring statement had landed dead on arrival with...
‘Putin is just the frontman’: Sergei Loznitsa, the Ukrainian film-maker who refuses to be cancelled
On 27 February, three days after Russian tanks rolled into his homeland, the Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa resigned from the European Film Academy. Loznitsa, an...