Gisèle Pelicot, person of the year 2024
Our 2024 Person of the Year has changed the rules, reversed the language and given women permission to reject shame
What Farage told me about Musk, Trump & the Tories
It underlined that he views politics mainly through the lens of personality and rarely bothers with policy
Starmer’s long-winded road
How can the PM connect with voters when he and his advisers keep spewing out meaningless word salad?
Is the Church of England doomed?
The next Archbishop of Canterbury must tackle decline, division and the tarnished legacy of Justin Welby
Be afraid, Reform can win
Nigel Farage says his party can win the 2029 election. He is right
When British pop went European
How British music turned away from America and learned to love the continent
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What Farage told me about Musk, Trump & the Tories
It underlined that he views politics mainly through the lens of personality and rarely bothers with policy
How to stop brain rot
Oxford University Press’s word of the year suggests social media has become a drug-like distraction from the world
Navalny’s daughter will haunt Putin
The 23-year-old hopes to, one day, return to Russia and help make it a free country. She’s certainly her father’s daughter
Has Notre Dame lost too much?
The success of Notre Dame’s comeback depends on whether we view it as an architectural gem or a functional religious building
The day John Prescott gave a speech to the sea
In paying their tributes, many people are still underestimating the former deputy prime minister
James Beattie and his timeless cello
The forgotten Scottish philosopher’s legacy resurfaced last week when his historic cello was played for the first time in 220 years
The word I want to get into the dictionary
The ‘trollification’ that happens on X, Elon Musk’s online hellhole, deserves a definition
How to believe in politics
It is time to dispel disbelief and face the grim reality that is unfolding
Biden’s wake-up call to Europe
The Ukraine missile strikes he has permitted won’t change the war – but they must change minds in the EU and UK
Our shameful media, trolling for Trump
The British press featured some bizarre coverage of the US election this week, even by its own standards
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Gisèle Pelicot, person of the year 2024
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The film that put Netanyahu in court
Five years after Get Brexit Done, Labour are starting to Get Brexit Gone
The public is running ahead of Starmer on Brexit
Kemi Badenoch is outstandingly bad at her job
The trials and triumphs of Madame Le Trump
Letters: Starmer’s silence on rejoining is deafening
Kemi Badenoch, Wall Street con men and the Mother of Dragons
Why does the leader of the Conservative Party have such a disturbing set of role models?
Tice accuses son of Holocaust survivor of ‘wanting to experiment with bodies’
The Reform deputy leader used disgusting language to attack Daniel Finkelstein for questioning his conspiracy theories about butter
No way for Jay as Observer HQ event cancelled
A sold-out event at the Guardian’s London headquarters with the Observer’s departing food writer has been mysteriously cancelled
Writers
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Marie Le Conte
French politics: a question without an answer
Matthew d’Ancona
The best interpretation of The Tempest I’ve ever seen
Patience Wheatcroft
Is the Church of England doomed?
Tanit Koch
How Thomas Mann taught Germans to chill out
Paul Mason
Starmer gets it: this is the age of tough liberalism
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The film that put Netanyahu in court
How to reduce Europe’s flood risk
Putin’s dark fleet
Meet Nigel Farage’s new moneyman
French politics: a question without an answer
Podcasts
The Two Matts
Robert Jenrick’s fascist foghorn
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Is news from Syria too good to be true?
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Q&A: Why wasn’t Putin on The Sh*t List?
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We’ve heard enough to make up our mind about Keir
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Today’s wall of shame – Joe Biden and Gregg Wallace
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Q&A: Petitions, Labour bashing and what’s up with Kamala?
Five years after Get Brexit Done, Labour are starting to Get Brexit Gone
On the anniversary of Johnson’s landslide, the UK/EU thaw is beginning to bring results
The public is running ahead of Starmer on Brexit
A survey shows UK voters would accept free movement and want closer ties with Europe
Be afraid, Reform can win
Nigel Farage says his party can win the 2029 election. He is right
Lie of the week: Alex Armstrong on David Hellier, the man in the red jumper
Rachel Reeves’s pointless mission
The chancellor headed for Brussels with nothing to offer and asked what Britain could get in return
Merkel on Brexit: “I felt disappointed and abandoned”
Britain’s decision to leave the EU “was an incredible event”, says the former German chancellor. David Cameron “delivered himself into the hands” of the eurosceptics, she tells The Rest is Politics
The New Europe
How to reduce Europe’s flood risk
European nations need to be vigilant and forward-thinking to prevent further disaster
French politics: a question without an answer
Macron seems to think his new choice of prime minister is the answer to France’s problems. He might be the only one who does
‘A digestive tract with a tie’
No matter how the plot of this particular election thriller ends, Romanian institutions must do better in the future
Georgia’s symphony of protest
A fine balance between popular anger and state violence engulfs Tbilisi every evening
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
Writing to Putin’s gulag
Following a rise in politically motivated sentences after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, prisoners in Russia and Belarus have come to rely on letters from strangers
Putin is about to inflict a refugee crisis on Europe. Here’s how to stop it
Giving frozen Russian assets to Ukraine would save Zelensky and send a defiant message to Trump
Biden’s wake-up call to Europe
The Ukraine missile strikes he has permitted won’t change the war – but they must change minds in the EU and UK
The next two months will define Starmer
Donald Trump’s election has called into question the Euro-Atlanticism elements of Labour foreign policy
Capturing space and time in Kazakhstan
Photographer Andrew McConnell set out to record cosmonauts in Kazakhstan – but found the local people infinitely more fascinating
The comeback of Notre Dame
President Macron said Notre Dame would be rebuilt within five years and would be even more beautiful. And so it came to pass
The film that put Netanyahu in court
The best interpretation of The Tempest I’ve ever seen
What’s the point of reproducing this Mel Brooks classic?
When British pop went European
Paula Rego’s nursery nightmares
A literary year of grifters and drifters
Silvana Mangano, the star who shunned the spotlight
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The needle through which Europe was threaded
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