An immigrant’s love letter to Britain

Thousands of Georgians are protesting against the "Russian law", refusing to give up their hopes of joining the EU

Cheer up, you miserable lot. Yes, your country has its problems – but there is so much to be proud of

Reform hope to consign the Tories to history at the next election. But the faultlines within Nigel Farage’s rebels are already showing

The art that brought Paris back from the dead

The question of whether Israel's Eden Golan should have been allowed to perform plagued this year's competition

I know I need to give it up, I'm just not ready to leave Neverland yet

Thousands of Georgians are protesting against the "Russian law", refusing to give up their hopes of joining the EU

Foreigners snapping up the properties don't always know what they are taking on

A call for peace remains an integral part of France's annual workers' march

Despite their morbid history, today Europe's railways bring our cultures closer together

For Gen Z, online international streaming services have made foreign language media mainstream

The secretive group seems more worthy of scrutiny than a club for elderly thespians

With China's economy in trouble, Xi has taken to wooing Europe

The army has lost its allure as a career for young Germans and as a result, numbers are dwindling

Cummings' return to creating his political party is something to be wary of

Mandrake hears that the new favoured day is November 21

The prime minister's 'sicknote culture' wrongly blames the mentally ill for the country's economic problems

Cheer up, you miserable lot. Yes, your country has its problems – but there is so much to be proud of

Poland’s economy is thriving, thanks to the benefits of being in the EU. No wonder Brexiteers see it as a threat

After an influx of ex-Labour voters, are they still the party of the climate crisis – or of Corbyn, or Gaza?

Reform hope to consign the Tories to history at the next election. But the faultlines within Nigel Farage’s rebels are already showing

Taxing alcohol and tobacco to make them very expensive is one solution, but just as important is making healthy food choices cheaper

The film festival is now about making deals, but in its early days it was about making stars, as young Europeans mixed with Hollywood’s elite

As conflicts ratchet up across the world, the risk of a nuclear war – perhaps even one started by accident – seems closer than ever

The art that brought Paris back from the dead

A new book charts the surprising passion in Ukraine for cricket, the country’s fastest-growing sport – until the Russians invaded

The remarkable Alice Rohrwacher on buried treasure and directing without a safety net

Provocative and dramatic work from Turkey is among the highlights of this year’s Photo London

Britain's restaurants could learn something from the casual establishments of Piedmont

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s theatre, television and books

In 1968, three films caught the times in different ways. And they all starred women

The word is linguistically Persian, but most of the ‘stan’ nations are now inhabited by speakers of Turkic languages

Whether she had an actual gun in her hand or not, art became her weapon, a noisy defence against the world and an instrument of her reckoning with the past

In the 1970s the three broadcast channels all had regular teleplays and anyone who wanted to write drama seriously was drawn into television