How you can beat populism
Stop shouting about how appalled we are by Trump and Farage and learn from our mistakes, to build our own disruptive new agenda of change, respect for ordinary people and pride in our country
If the facts change, Rachel Reeves can change her mind
Whatever the chancellor has to do to maintain fiscal credibility has to be done, but there is no reason it has to be spending cuts
Donald Trump, the king of manifest destiny
Trump is back. And so are long-buried American fantasies of national exceptionalism and conquest
Meta follows X to the dark side
Meta firing its fact-checkers is about more than sucking up to Trump. It kickstarts a global fight over the rules of the internet and free speech
Apocalypse right now: visions of destruction and disaster in Northern Italy
A new exhibition recalls the litany of catastrophe that has afflicted the world for centuries
The state of our book nation
UK publishing is richer than ever – yet most authors scrape to make a living, libraries are under threat and Brexit adds unwelcome red tape
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Elon Musk is a dictator in the making
Musk and Putin share a belief that facts don’t matter and there are no people or power structures that should be allowed to stand in their way
How to survive a near death experience
These experiences, however, are far from conclusive evidence of life after death
The cost of Elon Musk’s dangerous lies
The ranting billionaire embarrassed himself, Donald Trump… and Nigel Farage. Now he has to pay the price
We must make a better job of the way we work
Labour promised to produce the highest growth in the G7. But, few people understand what it will take to do that
Do humans need to hibernate?
The Oxford-based sleep scientist Vladyslav Vyazovskiy believes so, but it would just make life blander
Even for politicians, death is the great leveller
The prime minister should be spared social media’s grief voyeurism as he mourns the loss of his brother
Alastair Campbell’s winners and losers of 2024
In many cases over the last 12 months, the people who looked like winners also turned out to be losers
How to enjoy your Christmas dinner
For anyone who cares about animal suffering, it should be a no-brainer that eating intensively farmed turkey is unethical
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
How to stop brain rot
Oxford University Press’s word of the year suggests social media has become a drug-like distraction from the world
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Swede dreams show Darren Grimes’s hypocrisy
The GB News presenter’s favourite footballer is a product of a migrant success story. No wonder he’s confused
No, Starmer not attending Trump’s inauguration is not a stain on history
The right are fuming that Keir Starmer won’t be in Washington for the president’s swearing-in. But no prime minister ever has
Is Elon Musk lying about being an expert gamer?
The world’s richest man claims to be one of the world’s top players of RPG Path Of Exile 2. But a video of him in action suggests something quite different
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Badenoch blows her chance to say something interesting about Brexit
The Tory leader’s big speech was long on waffle and light on content – and it gives Keir Starmer a free run at fixing their mess
Letters: Labour’s stance on Europe is a bad dream
There is only one way to get a message through – make it clear we are not going to vote for them until they have an honest policy on the EU
The Spanish holiday villa dream is over, thanks to Brexit
Spain’s PM is ready to slap a 100% tax on property bought by buyers from non-EU countries
Would you pay £41 for a Cameo appearance from Steve Baker?
The self-styled ‘Brexit hardman’ has been reduced to flogging videos of himself on a celebrity website
Creasy: It’s time to drop red lines with EU
Keir Starmer needs to change his language if he’s serious about securing a better Brexit deal, a senior backbencher has warned
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Who will win Germany’s immigrant vote?
The number of immigrant voters could reach a peak at this election but this doesn’t mean that the Social Democrats, Greens and the liberal FDP will benefit
Athens’s plan to combat addiction
Could Athens’s new approach to helping users slowly reverse the country’s drug crisis?
Estonia’s culture fights for independence from Putin’s Russia
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reignited fears in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
Kosovo: where women will decide the election
Though many women are stuck at home, they are now the best educated section of the electorate. If the Kosovan government stays in power, it will be down to them
What Musk and Putin have in common
The Ukraine invasion and Musk’s Twitter buyout of Twitter show how weak accountability is in authoritarian regimes and among ultra-rich tech titans
Ukraine’s painful beauty
A Kyiv gallery has defied Russian missile attacks to stage a visceral but tender art competition for artists under 35
How Labour can prove it stands by Ukraine
The strategically important city of Pokrovsk is in Putin’s sights. The government should do everything it can to stop him – starting with donating surplus MoD equipment to Volodymyr Zelensky
We were always going to betray Ukraine
Zelensky has done all he can. But as the final sell-out approaches, the west has not done nearly enough
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
Science and the Sun King
Louis XIV built a Xanadu at Versailles – and sealed his family’s fate. But amid the extravagant luxury was thrilling innovation
Macron and Le Pen squabble among the ruins of Mayotte
The next battleground for the French president and Rassemblement National’s leader is the cyclone-hit, French-owned archipelago in the Indian Ocean
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