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It's time for Putin to cut his losses. Except he doesn't see it this way

In this extract from his new book, our editor-at-large reflects on why The People’s Vote failed... and what makes a successful campaign

Once the envy of Europe, the San Siro stadium shared by AC and Inter Milan is on its last legs – but still capable of stirring the soul.

Remembering a master, 40 years after his death

Teaching philosophy in the classroom can help better prepare younger generations for later life

Ada Colau is the city’s mayor and she would prefer you to stay away

Despite a flailing economy and soaring unemployment, president Erdoğan may retain his grip on the country's reins

Italy’s younger generations are swapping rush-hour in the city for country roads. Who can blame them?

Her piece is a nod to the cultural and intellectual links between Britain and Italy

As Russian rockets rained down on Ukraine, the contest’s political genie was finally let out of the bottle

Germany has returned 1,117 looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, but who really owns them?

It's time for Putin to cut his losses. Except he doesn't see it this way

Britain needs a bolder Keir Starmer who will challenge the home secretary over her shameful anti-immigrant rhetoric

The California city is now for too many like a plague-ridden medieval Florence, once glorious, now inglorious

They don't like to be called out for their Brexit lies - which is why it needs to happen more often

In this extract from his new book, our editor-at-large reflects on why The People’s Vote failed... and what makes a successful campaign

Everything in the country seems broken. What would be the cost of putting it right, and how would we do it?

A new voting system does not mean progressives in perpetual power – if anything it would bolster the far right

All roads in Hungary still lead to its populist PM – but after missteps over Ukraine and EU funding, for how much longer?

Once the envy of Europe, the San Siro stadium shared by AC and Inter Milan is on its last legs – but still capable of stirring the soul.

The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

Russia seems too tired and depleted to be able to resist tyrannical leaders

Should the dastardly progressives impose PR on the nation, the days of the Tory minority exercising unlimited power could be over... the horror

Remembering a master, 40 years after his death

Artificial intelligence can create a so-so approximation of what John Betjeman might have made of Brexit. But can it write with soul?

The recent Ed Sheeran plagiarism court case revives the old question of where music really comes from

East Germany’s first black policeman started the 1990s as a media phenomenon, but ended it in jail. A new series tells his story

Romans, in particular, become stressed when dishes are vandalised. Serve this to a Roman nonna and she may well try to conquer you again

Is The Ugly Duchess a work of misogyny, a portrait of deformity or the mocking of an aristocrat? Or all three?

Today only the Hebridean islands remain strongholds of a language that was once dominant across almost all of Scotland

The Austrian’s life was defined by a single event lasting 55 seconds

Having waited his entire life for this coronation service, and having apparently played a central role in devising it, the King was nonetheless unable to memorise his own lines