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Sanity is coming home
Three weeks in, Starmer has brought Britain closer to the EU, and outraged Brexiteers. What’s not to like?
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Covid lessons and the sickness in our system
If the British state is to meet the crises to come, urgent restructuring is required
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How Kamala can win
Kamala Harris is underrated. Now she must quickly define her message – and hope to avoid a drawn-out challenge
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The illegals who built Paris 2024
The Olympic torch is ready to be lit. But this Games would not be happening without the efforts of undocumented, low-paid workers
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We’ll all pay for the HS2 delay
Sooner or later, a British government will be forced to restart HS2. It should have been this one
Noise from the ruins
How Berlin made the notorious, magnificent Einstürzende Neubauten
Most popular
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Sudoku Hard
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Sudoku Medium
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Sudoku Easy
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Number Fit
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Jigsaw
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Cryptic Crossword
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Crossword
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Codeword
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Nigel Farage MP is even worse than you thought
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The Democrats’ lessons from 1968
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Pirate radio from the frontlines with Ukraine’s rockstar poet
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Who will oppose Keir Starmer?
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Trump lands the big endorsement – Kerry Katona
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Serious, grown-up, boring politics is back
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Lie of the week: ‘The politics of the subcontinent are currently playing out on the streets of Leeds’
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It’s the contradictions that may trip up the PM
Writers
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Alastair Campbell
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Patience Wheatcroft
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Matthew d’Ancona
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Tanit Koch
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Paul Mason
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Bonnie Greer
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Nigel Farage MP is even worse than you thought
Clacton’s elected representative will spend the next five years dogwhistling about people who don’t live there
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Sanity is coming home
Three weeks in, Starmer has brought Britain closer to the EU, and outraged Brexiteers. What’s not to like?
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Letters: The media’s bullets have missed the mark
In the aftermath of events in the US, it’s important not to fall into the same hyperbolic trap that plagued our media in the run-up to other recent elections
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Critical Mass.. on science
In TNE’s new column, science writer Philip Ball provides news and analysis from scientists, policymakers and the frontiers of human knowledge
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The war against tethered bottle caps
They help the environment, but Brexiteers hate them because the idea came from the EU
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A Brexit bombshell buried in the King’s Speech
Mirroring updated EU product rules will cheer industry and enrage Brexiteers
The New Europe
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The dark side of the Olympics
French politicians promised the Games would benefit everyone but, once again, the Olympics are bulldozing over a city and its residents
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A fight to preserve the essence of Paris
Thanks to affluent tourists, the city’s heart and soul is being auctioned off
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The political turmoil beneath Malta’s surface
Despite appearances, all is not well in the EU’s smallest member state
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Slovenia’s border chaos is far from closed
There are indications that the country will follow Italy and continue last year’s ‘temporary’ border controls until the end of 2024
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Pirate radio from the frontlines with Ukraine’s rockstar poet
Nobel nominee Serhiy Zhadan is broadcasting news from and to besieged towns and cities in a mobile radio van
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The UK’s election was crucial for Ukraine
Conveniently, the Georgian press saw no reason to focus on the change of government in Britain
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Taiwan’s eyes are on the Ukraine War
The outcome of Putin’s war in Ukraine could decide whether China invades Taiwan
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Farage and the curse of Americabrain
Politics is very different on each side of the Atlantic – but the populist right is determined to bring US-style polarisation to Britain
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Erdoğan’s Ukraine tightrope
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Turkey has been attempting a balancing act between the two warring nations
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Time to make Russia pay
The G7 and EU must make up their minds about what to do with €300 billion of Russia’s frozen assets
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Paris in the Olympic spring
The 1924 Olympics featured a future Tarzan, the men who inspired Chariots of Fire and a farewell to the man who created the modern Games.
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Breast in show
Lust, love and life: an exhibition about the art of the breast
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Vlad Ilich laughs away the pain
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Multicultural Man: On alternative therapies
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The fire in Erich Kästner
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Noise from the ruins
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The ego has landed
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Taking divan inspiration
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Conrad of the air
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Cécile Aubry: The actress who dreamed up Belle et Sébastien
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Ivana Trump: The Czech who chased the American dream
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The unlikely screen god
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The dreamer who looked to the stars
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