Opinion

With the election won, it’s no longer in the Tories’ interest to feign concern about racism, writes journalist Francesca Newton.
This result is a disaster for my neighbours, who have suffered immeasurably before, during and since the Grenfell Tower atrocity, former Labour MP Emma Dent Coad writes.
When our losses are concentrated in former coalfield constituencies that voted Leave, the reason is staring us in the face, Len McCluskey writes.
Vast swathes of the British public have ahead of them a painful collision with reality following the UK election result, journalist Tim Walker writes.
In a world where democracy does not exist, votes are meaningless and corrosive, journalist Natasha Phillips writes.
As the UK elects another Tory government, I shudder at what’s in store for the United States, journalist Jennifer Neal writes.
Relying on general election polls alone risks overstating their importance and exaggerating their influence, political markets expert Sarbjit Bakhshi writes.
Divided, we will perish. United we have a fighting chance to address our climate emergency, write Ban Ki-moon and Patrick Verkooijen.
If you are undecided how to vote this general election, remember rape has been all but decriminalised on Boris Johnson and the Tories’ watch, writes Baroness Shami Chakrabarti.
It's become a tidy way of legitimising the exclusion of women from certain career-enhancing opportunities, journalist Josie Cox writes.