The Bratislava summit is where the reality of Brexit will be driven home, but the arguments playing out across Britain are echoing across Europe too

It is perverse in the extreme to encourage school diversity and choice to the point of allowing pretty much anyone to set up a new 'free' school, then to allow selection on all sorts of criteria – sports, music – but to ban absolutely the most basic selection of all: by academic ability

Whatever happens next in terms of structures and international arrangements, the UK’s detachment from the EU could usher in a period of cultural rebirth

Throughout the Soviet period, disabled people were largely banished. In Russian cities, even now, you see the elderly amputees being wheeled to a begging pitch on a trolley

He speaks languages, knows about diplomacy from his one-time Eurocrat father and is culturally sensitive in a way that eludes many British Islanders. Unlike David Miliband, who appeared supercilious, Boris can save situations with humour and self-deprecation

There is an opening, now the EU issue is decided, if not to branch out, then to take stock and at do some tidying up

Campaigners on behalf of the families of fallen soldiers could have been expected to be among the sharpest critics of Chilcot. They were largely appreciative yesterday

After talk of a second referendum it should now be clear there is no going back

I consider myself part of the European generation, our lives overshadowed at one remove by our parents’ experience of war

You may not like the shouting and barracking of Prime Minister's Questions, but that is how top-level politics in this country is done

The one place that seems to be exempt from the perilous sense of a future unknown is the UK

What is needed – for so-called white-collar crime at least – is a more imaginative approach to repayment in the broadest sense. How about dispatching the exploitative Batley boss for a spell of hard labour in Hungary?

The easy credit of the Blair years encouraged an ostentation and extravagance that no taxpayers in their right mind would have endorsed – and we're still paying for it today

There are times when an iconoclast speaks a truth that others are unprepared to face, and this is one of them

While the US Congress halted a proposed sale of six ports to the UAE, many UK ports are foreign - non-EU - owned. And the capital's biggest airports are now all in foreign hands

World View: Neither the US or Russia can afford the Geneva peace talks on Syria to fail and, despite a Western consensus to the contrary, Moscow’s security interests have never been in de-stabilising Ukraine