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The country has had enough of amateurs
David Cameron’s return to frontline politics resembles a grown-up arriving at a children’s party
Conspiracy theories are taking over the world
We must defeat the software of despair and stop its rewiring of our politics
What is Sunak smoking?
The prime minister saw a cigarette ban as his final chance to write a positive legacy. Then more Tory chaos left his relaunch in tatters
Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, 50 years on
In 1974, Portugal had the lowest wages and highest illiteracy in western Europe. Then came the Carnation Revolution
The Ukraine war in New York City
In Brooklyn’s Little Odessa, Russians and Ukrainians live side by side, in the shadow of a distant conflict
The trouble with Harry Lime
The Third Man turns 75
Sudoku Hard
Sudoku Medium
Sudoku Easy
Number Fit
Jigsaw
Cryptic Crossword
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Can anyone save the SNP?
How to collapse a government
How smuggling saved Britain
Visas for social care workers may be exacerbating exploitation in the sector
Sánchez’s threat of resignation fails to make the country’s headlines
‘I might as well stop and diversify into holiday lets’ – new research reveals the reality of farming after Brexit
Power, corruption, lies and Brexit
A brief encounter with Joe Biden
Writers
Alastair Campbell
Tanit Koch
James Ball
Bonnie Greer
Paul Mason
Liz Gerard
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Can anyone save the SNP?
Humza Yousaf played a tough hand badly, but his party’s problems are deeper than just one man
How to collapse a government
Humza Yousaf tried to steamroll its coalition partner. It cost him his career
Sánchez’s threat of resignation fails to make the country’s headlines
Spaniards view the prime minister’s announcement as the latest of his electoral strategies
A crime against pizza
In Italy, one famous Neapolitan pizza maker is daring to change the city’s view of putting pineapple on pizza
Visas for social care workers may be exacerbating exploitation in the sector
Even with planned changes to the sponsorship rules, the risk of exploitation among care workers will remain
How smuggling saved Britain
During WWII, top-secret Operation Danegeld brought huge amounts of precision equipment from surrounded Switzerland to help Britain’s war effort
Podcasts
The Two Matts
Q&A: Rishi’s Rwanda Bill, separation of powers and Sam Smith
The Two Matts
Is it really okay to be proud about being English?
The Two Matts
Q&A: Honeytraps, comms and commissioners
The Two Matts
You can take our fags… but you’ll never take our FREEDOM!
The Two Matts
Q&A: Poverty vs culture wars, Trump on abortion, and adultery
The New Europe
The threat of Russian law in Georgia
People in Tbilisi are protesting Georgia’s Russification. Instead, they want to be part of the EU
The horror of Greece’s femicide
After six gender-based murders so far this year, Greek women now feel such tragedies are inevitable
Little Greece’s big future in New York
Today’s political climate makes celebrating two centuries of freedom more poignant – and political – than ever for the city’s Greek community
How women’s protest against misogyny helped change Spain’s rape laws
You Are Not Alone, a powerful new documentary, follows the horrific attack that gripped Spain
The US hard right are Putin’s useful idiots
The appeal of brutal Moscow governments is nothing new
Ukraine’s four wars
The conflict is being fought on four fronts: military, psychological, judicial and diplomatic. Could it be about to enter a new phase?
Big rouble in little Britain
A flood of Russian money has undeniably corrupted British politics – but to what extent? It is now time for an inquiry to find out
The Ukraine war in New York City
In Brooklyn’s Little Odessa, Russians and Ukrainians live side by side, in the shadow of a distant conflict
Slovakia’s populist shift could spell fresh trouble for Ukraine
Presidential victory for an ally of pro-Russia PM Robert Fico gives Zelensky and the EU a new headache
The war next door: My journeys into Ukraine
In a convoy supplying kit to Ukrainian soldiers at the frontline, I’ve seen beauty and horror, death and survival
Vive le Centre Pompidou: Monster magnifique
Amid all the glories of Paris, the Pompidou Centre stands as a monument to modernism and to the man whose name it bears
The Ukraine war in New York City
In Brooklyn’s Little Odessa, Russians and Ukrainians live side by side, in the shadow of a distant conflict