Britain enters a new nuclear age
The government has decided that the country will rearm – this strategic review is just the beginning
Our current edition
Trump and Putin, the accidental founders of modern Europe
If the continent wants to survive, it has to adopt new fresh and bold thinking
The country desperate for EU membership
Unfortunately for Edi Rama, Albania’s prime minister, the country’s place in the EU will be secured not by optics, but by its democratic credentials and right now, those are being tested
Our new world demands vision. Does Starmer have one?
The PM has been a disappointment so far. Now he must make voters choose between Farage’s view of the past, and his own view of the future
If universities sink, then so will Starmer
Some Labour figures believe Britain has too many unis. But if they start failing, local economies – and Starmer’s re-election prospects – will go with them
Can Europe unplug from Trump’s America?
Our continent runs on US tech. With Trump in the White House, that no longer feels safe – and plans are taking shape for a way out
Richard Linklater and the new wave of new wave
The American indie stalwart’s latest film tells the story of the making of another: Jean-Luc Godard’s À bout de souffle
Arts & Culture
No, Greta Garbo didn’t want to be alone
She had nowhere to hide but, as both documentary and book are at pains to point out, just because she wanted to be alone it did not necessarily mean she shunned personal contact
Why learning language is child’s play
Richard Linklater and the new wave of new wave
Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: The $-Plan Diet
The Phoenician Scheme, a gem of a film
Latest audio articles
The country desperate for EU membership
Unfortunately for Edi Rama, Albania’s prime minister, the country’s place in the EU will be secured not by optics, but by its democratic credentials and right now, those are being tested
Where is God when children are starving?
Atheists have a simple answer: it is evidence that God doesn’t exist, while believers say the gift of human free will brings with it the possibility of doing evil
Labour must reverse the winter fuel allowance cuts
Of all the things that the Labour government has done, this is the one that has done the most political damage
John Locke and the price of genius
The philosopher lost his childhood at the expense of his father’s educational experiment. It was far too high a price for anyone to pay
Brexit is dead. Long live the future
The Matts are on something of a high. This week’s EU deal suddenly feels much more consequential than they’d expected. Credit (for once) to Starmer … even in his technocratic monotone, he presided over a clear vibe shift in the UK’s relationship with the EU. No, it doesn’t go nearly far enough. No, it’s not […]
Bertrand Russell: lessons from a pacifist prophet
Many secular philosophers have opposed war and particular wars, but Russell stands in a class apart
Alastair Campbell’s diary: Labour can’t beat Farage at his own game
Don’t fight him where he is strong, fight him where he is weak – the economy, the NHS, Putin, Trump, climate, and yes, Brexit
Inside the minds of extremists
The media often describes terrorists as manifestations of evil, or as zombie-like products of indoctrination, but we urgently need a better account than that
The great Trump meltdown
Is it too much to hope that, eventually, Trump’s constant lying and backtracking will be enough to bring down his administration?
Why Mark Carney is one of the luckiest politicians alive
It could well be that just days apart Burnley get promoted back to the Premier League and Carney, the first Canadian prime minister ever to have visited Turf Moor, wins the election
Most popular
Puzzles
Sudoku Hard
Sudoku Medium
Sudoku Easy
Number Fit
Jigsaw
Cryptic Crossword
Crossword
Codeword
Politics
Karol Nawrocki, Poland’s MAGA president
Ukraine braces for a cruel summer
Everything you do is wrong
When Ireland and Luxembourg saved Britain from Liz Truss
The flaw in Starmer’s attack on reckless Farage
Tommy Robinson: the empty extremist
Trump and Putin, the accidental founders of modern Europe
The country desperate for EU membership
Writers
Alastair Campbell
The country desperate for EU membership
Marie Le Conte
Everything you do is wrong
Matthew d’Ancona
Mountainhead is a whip-smart dystopian comedy
Patience Wheatcroft
Labour’s prison plan: reform or retreat?
Tanit Koch
Gerhard Schröder isn’t doing himself any favours
Paul Mason
Britain enters a new nuclear age
Latest
Britain enters a new nuclear age
Biden died and was replaced by a robot, claims Trump
Another triumphant weekend for Liz Truss
Farage unveils his DOGE squad: four Reform politicians and a 28-year-old
Karol Nawrocki, Poland’s MAGA president
Donald Trump’s digital landgrab
Podcasts
The Two Matts
Rwanda 2.0, communications failures and Jane Austen accents
The Two Matts
What were Musk and Trump smoking?
The Two Matts
What the reaction to the Liverpool incident says about Britain
The Two Matts
The Daily Mail, wisdom and nostalgia for the Tories
The Two Matts
Chemical castration and the government’s prison plan … is it nuts?
The Two Matts
Brexit is dead. Long live the future
Brexit
Our new world demands vision. Does Starmer have one?
The PM has been a disappointment so far. Now he must make voters choose between Farage’s view of the past, and his own view of the future
Is the UK doomed?
A brutal UK economy report makes it clear: the reset is not enough in the face of deeply troubling data on a trade meltdown
Boris Johnson is finished – so of course he’ll be back as Tory leader
The disgraced ex-PM’s Brexit reset verdict was an embarrassment, but his true believers will have loved it
Nigel Farage, the Macavity of Brexit
Reform’s leader went on holiday as MPs debated the UK-EU reset deal. It wasn’t a gaffe – it was a ruse to avoid scrutiny
Absent Farage found frolicking in France
The Reform leader has been uncharacteristically quiet in the week of the prime minister’s big EU deal
Labour must reverse the winter fuel allowance cuts
Of all the things that the Labour government has done, this is the one that has done the most political damage
Ukraine
Ukraine braces for a cruel summer
As Putin’s summer offensive begins, insiders in Zelensky’s camp say they are facing the toughest time in years – with scary ramifications for Europe and the world
In Kyiv, my app told me: You are about to be bombed
What it’s like to be in the centre of one of Putin’s airstrikes
Putin’s tortured prisoners of war
Evidence and eyewitness testimony shows how Russia has maimed some Ukrainian PoWs. But other soldiers and civilians have simply disappeared from sight
Ukraine’s defiance is rarer than minerals
The most egregious demands from the US-Ukraine minerals deal’s first draft have gone. But, in Kyiv, there are fears that it still offers no concrete security guarantees
Steve Witkoff, the world’s worst diplomat
He is a life-long property developer. So how the hell did he end up as America’s top international negotiator, on everything from Ukraine to the Iran nuclear deal?
The fall of Saigon, 50 years on
Half a century ago, a humiliated America scrambled out of a losing war. But parallels with Ukraine show little has changed
The big picture
Sebastião Salgado, Brazil’s poet of dignity and decay
Sometimes controversial, but never less than beautiful, the late Salgado leaves behind his images, and a legacy of conservation
Père-Lachaise: Where Paris goes to die
The cemetery, opened by Napoleon, was unpopular at first. But then the VIPs came – followed by the ghosts
Great European Lives
Geneviève de Galard, the reluctant Angel of Dien Bien Phu
Robert Capa, the photographer who couldn’t resist the lure of the battlefield
Raoul Lufbery, the Frenchman who became America’s greatest aviator
Eddie Barclay, the man who invented showbiz
Jerzy Kosiński, the writer whose last act was to plagiarise himself
Maria Schell, Hollywood’s grounded alien
Donald Trump’s digital landgrab
Can Europe unplug from Trump’s America?
