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
Welcome to the Lords. Mind the buckets…
Previous governments have known that the Houses of Parliament need urgent attention, but have baulked at the potential bill. Will the current administration be any different?
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
Elon’s little helpers
The neofascist billionaire at Trump’s side is spewing out dangerous lies about Britain. And our complicit right wing press is amplifying them
Trump’s burning ambition
MAGA’s resurgence means that works by George Orwell, Khaled Hosseini, Anne Frank and even Agatha Christie are under threat
2073, the feel bad movie of the year
Oscar-winner Asif Kapadia on his new docu-drama and the road to dystopia
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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
Navalny’s daughter will haunt Putin
The 23-year-old hopes to, one day, return to Russia and help make it a free country. She’s certainly her father’s daughter
Has Notre Dame lost too much?
The success of Notre Dame’s comeback depends on whether we view it as an architectural gem or a functional religious building
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Cartoon: The inauguration
Creasy: It’s time to drop red lines with EU
Why Trump is the anti-Reagan
Spain’s parrot pandemic
Estonia’s culture fights for independence from Putin’s Russia
Brexiteers should be ashamed of their attacks on Olly Robbins
Kosovo: where women will decide the election
Social media: the tool of a new, aggressive US foreign policy
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
Is Johnson, not Cummings, the real Musk whisperer?
Are the former prime minister’s fingerprints on several of Elon’s most famous interventions?
Isabel Oakeshott gets it wrong, again
The journalist and Reform campaigner badly misrepresented a Welsh charitable appeal
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Alastair Campbell
The cost of Elon Musk’s dangerous lies
Marie Le Conte
How the internet broke our elites
Matthew d’Ancona
Against the odds, A Real Pain is a triumph
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Welcome to the Lords. Mind the buckets…
Tanit Koch
ARD and Germany’s first media scandal of the year
Paul Mason
If the facts change, Rachel Reeves can change her mind
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Labour is squandering the chance to tell its economic story
The Spanish holiday villa dream is over, thanks to Brexit
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What Musk and Putin have in common
Is Andrew Neil really a five-times-a-week man?
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The Two Matts
If AI is going to save the UK, who will save Rachel Reeves?
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Q&A: No more inquiries, Elon’s talking points & Neil Oliver’s hair
The Two Matts
Mark Zuckerberg and his Two-Facebook
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2025: The most consequential year of our lifetimes?
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Q&A: Milestones vs Millstones
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Heroes, villains and clowns of 2024
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
Brexiteers should be ashamed of their attacks on Olly Robbins
The new senior civil servant at the Foreign Office is a force for good
Does this development mean Starmer is secretly planning to Rejoin?
Mark Francois has sounded the Brexit betrayal claxon over a big change at the Foreign Office
Wait until Elon Musk works out what’s really hurting investment in Britain
Brexit, not Keir Starmer’s policies, are causing a lack of confidence among investors
The New Europe
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
Musk’s German ally takes the extreme mainstream
Alice Weidel spouts fake facts and demonises Muslims – and she is getting closer to becoming Germany’s chancellor
Elon Musk enters German politics
The entrepreneur’s foray into European politics and obsession with the AfD is troubling, given his megaphone X
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
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
Portraits of love, loss and legacy
Intimate stories and unbreakable bonds in an exhibition of portraits that dig deep into our European ways of life and death
The burger joint that will close when its single cow runs out
Against the odds, A Real Pain is a triumph
How We Live in Time gets cancer right
France and Britain need to learn from each other
A river runs through it
Keith Jarrett: The agony and the ecstasy
The big-time film mogul who saw the importance of making art
Eurovision’s first breakout success
Soviet cinema’s reluctant dissident
Silvana Mangano, the star who shunned the spotlight
The little machine with a higher gear than the rest
