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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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
John Locke and the price of genius
The philosopher lost his childhood at the expense of his father’s educational experiment. It was far too high a price for anyone to pay
Brexit is dead. Long live the future
The Matts are on something of a high. This week’s EU deal suddenly feels much more consequential than they’d expected. Credit (for once) to Starmer … even in his technocratic monotone, he presided over a clear vibe shift in the UK’s relationship with the EU. No, it doesn’t go nearly far enough. No, it’s not […]
Bertrand Russell: lessons from a pacifist prophet
Many secular philosophers have opposed war and particular wars, but Russell stands in a class apart
Alastair Campbell’s diary: Labour can’t beat Farage at his own game
Don’t fight him where he is strong, fight him where he is weak – the economy, the NHS, Putin, Trump, climate, and yes, Brexit
Inside the minds of extremists
The media often describes terrorists as manifestations of evil, or as zombie-like products of indoctrination, but we urgently need a better account than that
The great Trump meltdown
Is it too much to hope that, eventually, Trump’s constant lying and backtracking will be enough to bring down his administration?
Why Mark Carney is one of the luckiest politicians alive
It could well be that just days apart Burnley get promoted back to the Premier League and Carney, the first Canadian prime minister ever to have visited Turf Moor, wins the election
How to live like Sartre and Beauvoir
The philosophical power couple lived in freedom, but that came at a cost for others around them
Vive la France, à bas JD Vance!
If Trump and his vice-president have a genius for anything, it’s global media dominance
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The ‘secret plan’ to dim the sun
Am I welcome in Britain?
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The House of Hohenzollern, a dynasty fit for a Netflix drama
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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Chemical castration and the government’s prison plan … is it nuts?
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Brexit is dead. Long live the future
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The big PR debate, Labour comms and Green populism
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Blessed are the jet-givers: St Donald goes to Qatar
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Mr Starmer’s strange island of strangers
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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
Ari Aster’s Eddington is not the great Covid movie we’ve been waiting for
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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