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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
Georgia’s symphony of protest
A fine balance between popular anger and state violence engulfs Tbilisi every evening
Be afraid, Reform can win
Nigel Farage says his party can win the 2029 election. He is right
Is the Church of England doomed?
The next Archbishop of Canterbury must tackle decline, division and the tarnished legacy of Justin Welby
When British pop went European
How British music turned away from America and learned to love the continent
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Why are Labour dragging their feet over House of Lords reform?
Elon Musk and Giorgia Meloni: a burgeoning friendship the world should keep an eye on
Putin’s dark fleet
How to reduce Europe’s flood risk
The film that put Netanyahu in court
Meet Nigel Farage’s new moneyman
French politics: a question without an answer
Five years after Get Brexit Done, Labour are starting to Get Brexit Gone
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Alastair Campbell
What Farage told me about Musk, Trump & the Tories
Tanit Koch
How Thomas Mann taught Germans to chill out
James Ball
Meet Nigel Farage’s new moneyman
Bonnie Greer
What I got wrong about Donald Trump and America
Paul Mason
Starmer gets it: this is the age of tough liberalism
Liz Gerard
How the Express keeps on digging
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Elon Musk and Giorgia Meloni: a burgeoning friendship the world should keep an eye on
For Meloni, closeness to Musk is closeness to Trump. But there are risks ahead
Why are Labour dragging their feet over House of Lords reform?
The government talked big about a new chamber – but still wants to rig the old one to suit its purposes
The best interpretation of The Tempest I’ve ever seen
Sigourney Weaver shines in her west end debut in Jamie Lloyd’s powerful new production of Shakespeare’s final solo-authored play
The film that put Netanyahu in court
The Bibi Files paints a devastating picture of the Israeli prime minister and his family
How to reduce Europe’s flood risk
European nations need to be vigilant and forward-thinking to prevent further disaster
Putin’s dark fleet
A secret armada of condemned tankers is breaking sanctions by transporting Russian oil around the world. It could all lead to environmental disaster
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
The little machine with a higher gear than the rest
The needle through which Europe was threaded
The actress pursued by misfortune and tragedy
The bohemian travel writer always drawn back home
