What if Starmer is actually quite good?

As the first presidential debate looms, it’s time for Biden to take care of business

There are good reasons to believe that Labour in power will be better and go further than you think

You might not know it, but you ruined the country. Obviously nothing to do with the Conservative government

Just when cinema really needs a bit of sunshine and uplift, along comes a Megaflopolis

Banning talk of sex from classrooms contradicts the openness and love of learning the philosopher strived for

In both situations, it can feel like waiting for the deal-breaker to present itself

The Dutch far-right politician will not be prime minister, but he is in power

After his humiliating local election defeat, Erdoğan wants to silence his ideological opponents

In learning how to fight off populists, Spain’s prime minister is starting to emulate their moves

The most brutal aspects of the country's drug war are spreading nationwide

With an 800-year history, the city’s St John’s Hospital Museum understands the role of art in the healing process

The electorate will see through any attempt to frighten them into yet another period of government by the doomed Tories

Those who want to see Ukraine win, and not be destroyed, have a right to ask our politicians to get serious

Germany’s most successful club finished third in the Bundesliga and ended the season without a trophy – despite Harry Kane’s best efforts

There’s no wonder only Lord Ashcroft’s Biteback publishing outfit was prepared to pick up the rights to Ten Years to Save the West

As the first presidential debate looms, it’s time for Biden to take care of business

It would take a lot more than a change in government to turn around the lives of some of the pupils at The Heath – but it would be a start

There are good reasons to believe that Labour in power will be better and go further than you think

There’s a simple way to save our crisis-hit universities. But Rishi Sunak is the only one who can’t see it

Slovakia is at a crossroads after the shocking attempted assassination of populist prime minister Robert Fico

As tensions rise, Islamist groups are once again quietly preparing attacks in Europe – with the Olympics and Euro 2024 as possible targets

Paola Totaro’s ‘immigrant’s love letter to Britain’ reminded our readers of all the good things about the country, and moved some to tears

A new exhibition of Hetherington’s greatest photographs is not of guns and bombs – but of the men who use them

You might not know it, but you ruined the country. Obviously nothing to do with the Conservative government

Just when cinema really needs a bit of sunshine and uplift, along comes a Megaflopolis

A dreamlike lost masterpiece about a writer’s fixation with Dostoevsky – a man who would have hated him

Amsterdam prepares for Art Week against a backdrop of a new government keen to end culture funding

The picture of Northern Ireland painted by the hit BBC drama series is tense, shocking – and entirely accurate

Why the fouée – soft, airy bread similar to pitta – hasn’t crossed the Channel is a mystery

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

In her elusive beauty and skill, Arletty was the rival to Garbo

Between 350AD and 600AD, ‘boat people’ took Brittonic Celtic across the Channel from south-west England to Normandy and Brittany

Four days after surviving a huge crash, his love of being behind the wheel was too strong to resist

A little morsel of madeleines, put it in a teaspoon and dipped in tea, summons memories of In Search of Lost Time