

The brutality of truth
A new film about an architect who survives the Holocaust is a stunning achievement, and one with deep resonance for our own time

Dominic Grieve and Caroline Lucas: “We need to fight Farage – and Faragism”
Five years after Britain left the EU, the co-presidents of European Movement UK believe the country needs to begin a serious discussion about rejoining – but Farage, and his Tory admirers, are getting in the way

Badenoch is a dud. How long does she have left?
How long has the Conservative leader got before her notoriously ruthless party decides they’ve had enough of her?


Planning for an American collapse
Trump is already doing colossal damage to the US and sending his allies into a spin. Can Europe and China deal with America’s wild political volatility?

The woman Musk wants to rule Germany
The tech bro’s ally Alice Weidel spouts fake facts and demonises Muslims – and she is getting closer to becoming German chancellor
Italy’s national obsession
Cherished and controversial, Sanremo is Eurovision… but turned up to eleven
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Rachel Reeves’s long-distance plans

Germany’s urban-rural divide plays into the AfD’s hands


If Trump’s plan for Gaza is insane, what does sane look like?

The hypocrisy of Kemi Badenoch

The shooting in Sweden: “an event which shakes our entire society”

How Europe can lead in the age of Trump

Counting the costs of Donald Trump

Trump is both a symptom and a cause


Fawning Farage interview is just Standard for London’s struggling paper
The capital’s once evening title continues its journey rightwards with an ingratiating interview with the Reform leader


Part-time Farage rakes in another £80k from side jobs
The Reform leader continues to make a fortune from interests which have nothing to do with serving his constituents in Clacton


Camilla Tominey’s unsisterly farewell to Kay Burley
The GB News presenter has launched an astonishingly catty attack on her retiring Sky rival
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Rachel Reeves’s long-distance plans

My father took a Nazi bullet – Badenoch would have thrown him out

Germany’s urban-rural divide plays into the AfD’s hands


Why are Labour acting like the Tories?


How September 5 and the Munich Olympics changed the newsroom

What Kosovo has that Britain doesn’t
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The Two Matts
Q&A: Customs union vs the single market: what’s the difference?

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Donald Trump: Clueless in Gaza

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Q&A: The Wisdom Of Chiles

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Is Labour’s vision for Britain taking off at last?

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Fixing Brexit can help Labour defeat Reform
If coupled with actual delivery of better arrangements with the EU, Reform’s weakness on Brexit is fertile ground

Letters: The Holocaust is a warning from history
We should never forget what happened and be aware that it could all too easily happen again, here and now


Starmer ducks the inevitable on the EU.. again
At some point soon, the PM is going to have to choose Europe over Trump’s USA


Starmer is penned in by May’s red lines
The PM’s trip to Brussels is almost worthless while he adheres to the Brexit position laid out by his failed predecessor

I voted Leave. Five years of Brexit have shown me I was wrong
Quitting the EU has solved none of our problems – it’s only added restrictions, with nothing in return


The 50 most batsh*t quotes of Brexit
Five years on, the story of a national disaster in the words of those responsible (and Mr Blobby)
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What Kosovo has that Britain doesn’t
The country goes to the polls on Sunday – and the people of Kosovo know exactly what they want

The shooting in Sweden: “an event which shakes our entire society”
Eleven people are dead in the latest outbreak of horrifying violence in Sweden. Can the nation hold together?


The dark shadow of the AfD hangs over German politics
The leader of one of Germany’s main political parties relied on the extreme right wing AfD party to get his immigration bill through parliament. Big mistake

What Trump doesn’t understand about Greenland
A complex set of historic agreements between the US and Denmark means that if he wants Greenland, Trump might have to give up something in return

What Musk and Putin have in common
The Ukraine invasion and Musk’s Twitter buyout of Twitter show how weak accountability is in authoritarian regimes and among ultra-rich tech titans


Ukraine’s painful beauty
A Kyiv gallery has defied Russian missile attacks to stage a visceral but tender art competition for artists under 35

How Labour can prove it stands by Ukraine
The strategically important city of Pokrovsk is in Putin’s sights. The government should do everything it can to stop him – starting with donating surplus MoD equipment to Volodymyr Zelensky


We were always going to betray Ukraine
Zelensky has done all he can. But as the final sell-out approaches, the west has not done nearly enough


Ukraine is the new Berlin
As the second coming of Donald Trump threatens a sell-out of Kyiv, Europe finds itself pondering events of 75 years ago


UK soft power failed with Putin – it’s time for the hard option
Britain and Europe are up against an alliance of evil. Now is the time to resist Russia, and for the UK to lead by example

Brutalism: a dream of form and function
In the 1990s, Britain fell out of love with its concrete masterpieces – but then it all changed

The decline and fall of Italy’s disco empire
Photographer Simone Nanetti’s haunting images of Italy’s abandoned nightclubs


How September 5 and the Munich Olympics changed the newsroom


Vulnerable, terrifying Rami Malek will have you in rhapsodies


The America we knew may well be gone forever


The brutality of truth


The Greenland-eyeing monster


The book of Europe


The soprano dubbed the ‘highest expression of Venus on Earth’


The Ambassadress of French Song


The perpetual outsider who was always the centre of attention


The man of paper who died with his city


The big-time film mogul who saw the importance of making art

