
Wherever you stand on Gaza, starving children to death is indefensible
The world is witness to an atrocity. So why is there international apathy?

The flawed Assisted Dying bill still deserves to succeed
Scaremongering and clumsy amendments should not stall the cause of helping the terminally ill to die with dignity

The plot to fool America
It’s possible to feel the deepest sympathy for Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis and still be appalled by the cover-up of his cognitive decline


The ‘secret plan’ to dim the sun
Conspiracy theorists blame vapour trails on a strange experiment endorsed by Keir Starmer. And the craziest thing is… they’re half right

Labour must reverse the winter fuel allowance cuts
Of all the things that the Labour government has done, this is the one that has done the most political damage
Could Tom Cruise’s next mission be the White House?
Having saved the world numerous times on the big screen, could the star be tempted to sort out the world’s problems via political office?
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New Reform councillor already tires of “dull and boring” meetings
Just weeks after being elected, a Reform councillor asked constituents whether he should step down after failing to enjoy his first meeting


Give Trump the Nobel Prize, Tory peer pleads
A Conservative peer has written to government ministers urging them to get behind a call for the US president to win the Nobel Peace Prize


Is Blackpool’s new Reform pub all it seems?
London journalists are flocking to a Lancashire hostelry dedicated to Nigel Farage’s party. Pity it has an unfortunate history
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Boris Johnson is finished – so of course he’ll be back as Tory leader
The disgraced ex-PM’s Brexit reset verdict was an embarrassment, but his true believers will have loved it


Nigel Farage, the Macavity of Brexit
Reform’s leader has gone on holiday as MPs debate the UK-EU reset deal. It’s not a gaffe – it’s a ruse to avoid scrutiny


Absent Farage found frolicking in France
The Reform leader has been uncharacteristically quiet in the week of the prime minister’s big EU deal


Labour must reverse the winter fuel allowance cuts
Of all the things that the Labour government has done, this is the one that has done the most political damage


Starmer’s EU deal sends right-wing rags back to 2016
The government’s European reset saw the Mail, Sun, Telegraph and the like hark back to happier times


It’s taken a Remainer to fix the Brexiteers’ mess
Keir Starmer’s pragmatic deal is nowhere near as good as rejoining – but it is good news for British companies, consumers and tourists
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Why you should visit Heligoland
Eighty years ago, the island was nearly wiped off the map. Today it relies on wind-farm crews more than tourists

Greenland knows what it wants, and it’s not JD Vance
If the vice-president wishes to return to the country, he may want to be better prepared

The revenge of the Spanish economy
Spain has made a spectacular economic recovery since the last economic crash– but Spaniards are still struggling and fear Trump’s tariffs might trigger another disaster

North Macedonia loses an entire generation
With 59 fatalities and over 200 hospitalisations, the fire at Club Pulse was the stuff of nightmares

Putin’s tortured prisoners of war
Evidence and eyewitness testimony shows how Russia has maimed some Ukrainian PoWs. But other soldiers and civilians have simply disappeared from sight

Ukraine’s defiance is rarer than minerals
The most egregious demands from the US-Ukraine minerals deal’s first draft have gone. But, in Kyiv, there are fears that it still offers no concrete security guarantees

Steve Witkoff, the world’s worst diplomat
He is a life-long property developer. So how the hell did he end up as America’s top international negotiator, on everything from Ukraine to the Iran nuclear deal?


The fall of Saigon, 50 years on
Half a century ago, a humiliated America scrambled out of a losing war. But parallels with Ukraine show little has changed


Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Putin’s dirty tricks campaign
Whether or not they were involved in the Heathrow fire, the Russians revel in the mayhem their hybrid actions cause

The day Putin took power
The foundations of the Kremlin strongman’s ascent to power were forged in the ruins of Grozny a quarter of a century ago

Père-Lachaise: Where Paris goes to die
The cemetery, opened by Napoleon, was unpopular at first. But then the VIPs came – followed by the ghosts

Utagawa Hiroshige, master of fire and water
The elemental works of the Japanese ukiyo-e artist are celebrated in a new book and exhibition at the British Museum


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Imelda Staunton and Jenny Seagrove, the great pretenders

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Corny country musical Shucked is no Book of Mormon


Wild camping is a holiday for the soul, and now it’s legal


The government which actively loathes its own voters

Robert Capa, the photographer who couldn’t resist the lure of the battlefield

Raoul Lufbery, the Frenchman who became America’s greatest aviator

Eddie Barclay, the man who invented showbiz

Jerzy Kosiński, the writer whose last act was to plagiarise himself

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