PMQs review: Keir Starmer actually makes a good joke shock
It has taken 3,646 days since he became an MP, but Keir Starmer today made an actual funny joke at Prime Minister’s Questions
Politics
The slow death of local news
Proper reporting is fading out as papers shrink or fold. Who will hold the powerful to account?
Trump’s failures behind the curtain
Donald Trump swore he would face down the world – then blinked first. His aura is damaged for ever
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?
How Merz can build his coalition
Scholz’s successor will exceed expectations – but only as the bar for the chancellor-designate has been set so low
Argentina’s lithium wars
President Milei is selling out his own country and its indigenous people along with it
How Merz can build his coalition
Scholz’s successor will exceed expectations – but only as the bar for the chancellor-designate has been set so low
Jerzy Kosiński, the writer whose last act was to plagiarise himself
However his works might have been assembled and whatever dissembling he did when talking about his life, Jerzy Kosiński was a master storyteller
Goodbye Mr Globalism
Klaus Schwab, the man who founded the Davos summit, had a vision for the world. But things haven’t turned out the way he wanted
Meeting fascists in the graveyard
Spain is still mourning its Civil War dead. But not everyone sees the nation’s history in quite the same way
Who makes the Pope’s coffin?
Deep inside the Vatican, in a highly secret location, a group of carpenters were tasked with creating a very special casket
How populism gives youth wings
Bitter at the old politics, young Germans saw the far-right AfD as a revitalising tonic. How can the left get that taste out of their mouths?
Björk, Pascal and the end of the world
Whatever you do, don’t give in to the idea that we are all doomed. It only makes it all much worse
Living in the shadow of coal
Communities whose lives have been shaped and scarred by mining are now shaken by the prospects of a green transition
Can Cop30 solve its ethical dilemma?
Thousands of trees are being felled in the Amazon rainforest to build a four-lane highway for this year’s climate summit in Belém
Fleeing the heat of Trump’s America for Ireland
Meet the Americans swapping Trump’s Florida for the gentle rural landscapes of County Kerry
When the snow stops falling
Reliable snowfall is becoming a thing of the past in the Alps, where the effects of climate change are magnified due to the terrain
Climate of fear
The case for green measures has never been clearer. But ideology in the US and internal battles in the UK threaten any progress
Trump in the rough over late golf returns
The firm which owns the president’s Scottish course has been issued with a warning it’s at risk of being struck off after failing to file its finances
Facebook’s free speech battle
The oversight board Mark Zuckerberg set up has criticised him, and ruled that anti-Muslim content should be removed. Will he now silence them?
X marks the drop for Elon Musk’s British business
New figures filed at Companies House show a whopping fall in the turnover of the self-styled first buddy’s social network X
How to save the internet
Have you noticed how the internet has just got a whole lot worse? It’s time to do something about it
The gap between reality and Black Mirror is closing
The TV series is back with an opening episode on the corrosive power of technology firms. Can we do anything about it? Or will they inevitably get us all?
Britain must not sell out Online Safety for tariff scraps
The idea that digital regulation is an attack on free speech is a myth, largely perpetuated by allies of big tech
Mussolini, Trump and me
Michel Hazanavicius on hope and the Holocaust
The Assessment and the mother of all battles
Tracey Emin: ‘Brexit was hideous and heinous’
The iron curtain and the silver screen
Eimear McBride is not playing games
Death of a shooting star
