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What’s behind AfD’s election surge?
German voters are not becoming extremists. They are just fed up
Reeves needs to be a bit braver with her accounts
If Rachel Reeves wants to be a truly reforming chancellor, she should embrace a more radical approach to accounting
The online threat is real and existential
Unless we act now, it will be used in the destruction of our democracy
Britain: Unarmed and dangerous
Our armed forces are not fit for purpose. Here’s how to fix them
The promise Starmer should have broken
Keir Starmer pledged no tax rises for working people, yet that’s impossible. Unless, of course, he drops his red lines on the single market and customs union
A problem like Maria
Angelina Jolie’s Callas biopic sinks at the Venice Film Festival
Sudoku Hard
Sudoku Medium
Sudoku Easy
Number Fit
Jigsaw
Cryptic Crossword
Crossword
Codeword
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It’s time to build jails
Is Badenoch ditching Brexit?
At last, truth in the Commons over Brexit
Michel Barnier: a Macronic miscalculation
The mystery of Robert Jenrick’s baseball cap
Starmer’s honeymoon is over, after one and a fifth Liz Trusses
Killed by greed and deregulation
Tugendhat would be the least worst Tory leader
Writers
Alastair Campbell
Scottish independence has lost its salience for younger generations
Tanit Koch
What’s behind AfD’s election surge?
James Ball
It’s time to build jails
Bonnie Greer
Which Hollywood villain is Trump?
Paul Mason
The online threat is real and existential
Liz Gerard
How the Express keeps on digging
Latest
It’s time to build jails
Labour has inherited a jails crisis. Its short-term decision to release prisoners will be unpopular. The long-term answer might be even more so
At last, truth in the Commons over Brexit
Jonathan Reynolds’ reaction to business and trade questions mark an important turning point
Is Badenoch ditching Brexit?
The favourite to become the next Tory leader, once a vociferous Leaver, now seems loathe to mention it
Michel Barnier: a Macronic miscalculation
The French president’s new choice of PM shows that his political project has ended in failure
The mystery of Robert Jenrick’s baseball cap
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Tom Tugendhat, Jonathan Gullis, Mel Stride and more
Starmer’s honeymoon is over, after one and a fifth Liz Trusses
There were difficult questions today for the prime minister, even if Keir Starmer kept forgetting who that was
Podcasts
The Two Matts
From a bonfire of red tape to Grenfell: a case study in societal failure
The Two Matts
Far right rises in Germany – but not as much as Oasis ticket prices
The Two Matts
Q&A: Smoking outside, printing money and booking Kemi
The Two Matts
Adam Boulton on why politicians need to be braver. Yes, Keir… that’s you
The Two Matts
Q&A: From Milton Keynes to Keynesian economics
The New Europe
Fathoming the mysteries of the Palio
Siena’s chaotic horse race is over in a minute and a half, but the plotting goes on all year round
Slovakia’s summer of protests and politics
The country has seen months of increasing political tensions paired with rising temperatures
What’s behind AfD’s election surge?
German voters are not becoming extremists. They are just fed up
Germany’s grannies versus the fascists
Since 2017, Omas gegen Rechts (Grannies against the right) has grown into a national and international force
Hitting Putin where it hurts
Ukraine’s daring incursion into Kursk shows a dictator in crisis, with the Russian people and China turning their backs on him
Putin’s crumbling facade
Ukraine’s invasion of Kursk has exposed yet more flaws at the heart of Russia. Could the dictator’s regime now fall?
The little grey man
Where did Putin come from?
At last, the world finally sees how Ukraine can win
Zelensky’s forces have invaded Russian territory, a move that shifts the whole dynamic of the conflict. But the risks are huge
One-third of Ukrainians would give up land for peace – but it’s not as simple as that
If such a compromise between Kyiv and Moscow were achieved, it would most likely come about as a result of pressure from Washington and Beijing
Pirate radio from the frontlines with Ukraine’s rockstar poet
Nobel nominee Serhiy Zhadan is broadcasting news from and to besieged towns and cities in a mobile radio van
Louis Stettner, an American in Paris
The photographer used his camera and the city of lights as a doorway to poetry
Putin’s crumbling facade
Ukraine’s invasion of Kursk has exposed yet more flaws at the heart of Russia. Could the dictator’s regime now fall?
Multicultural Man: On coping with grief
Mind your Ps and Ts
Kouign-amann is the best thing since sliced bread
Slow Horses is the perfect spy thriller for Brexit Britain
Day trips to hell
Plinths of darkness
The idiosyncratic empress entirely unsuited to the role
The 20th century’s master of storytelling
The unlikely virtuoso who made the harmonica sing
The poet who sang about the dark times
The unlikely vanguard of a cultural revolution
