McGrath

Sony's shift away from physical media looks like a gaming story, but it exposes something wider: Europeans are living more of life through digital systems they use but do not fully control.

Italy's push to weaken green safeguards in the next EU budget shows how climate policy is increasingly being recast as a competitiveness problem rather than a moral one.

Europe's conservatives have revived the child-abuse scanning fight by proving that even a politically damaged bill can return if child protection is set against privacy in the right procedural conditions.

Nigel Farage quit Parliament to fight a rubbish-bin mascot for his own seat, wagering that grievance beats scrutiny in the court of public opinion.

When a presidential candidate attacks an American streamer for mocking France, the influencer arena stops being parallel to politics and starts becoming part of it.