The brutality of truth
A new film about an architect who survives the Holocaust is a stunning achievement, and one with deep resonance for our own time
Dominic Grieve and Caroline Lucas: “We need to fight Farage – and Faragism”
Five years after Britain left the EU, the co-presidents of European Movement UK believe the country needs to begin a serious discussion about rejoining – but Farage, and his Tory admirers, are getting in the way
Badenoch is a dud. How long does she have left?
How long has the Conservative leader got before her notoriously ruthless party decides they’ve had enough of her?
Planning for an American collapse
Trump is already doing colossal damage to the US and sending his allies into a spin. Can Europe and China deal with America’s wild political volatility?
The woman Musk wants to rule Germany
The tech bro’s ally Alice Weidel spouts fake facts and demonises Muslims – and she is getting closer to becoming German chancellor
Italy’s national obsession
Cherished and controversial, Sanremo is Eurovision… but turned up to eleven
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Finding a ray of hope in Trump’s dark new era
At Davos, Nigerian-American Salome Agbaroji’s poetry urged leaders not to cower in the face of populism
Don Cupitt, the priest who didn’t believe in God
Despite once being a practising clergyman, the late Cupitt was noted for his radical ideas on ‘non-realist’ philosophy of religion
Who’s really to blame for populism?
There’s a thin line between “progressives got a lot wrong” and “the far right are winning because they’re right”
What would George Orwell think of Facebook?
On the 75th anniversary of the author’s death, some of his most famous words read as a warning
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
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The hypocrisy of Kemi Badenoch
The shooting in Sweden: “an event which shakes our entire society”
Brutally policed, heading for dictatorship… but at least Georgia has cheap wine, says Independent
As the country heads towards a Russian-style autocracy, the website is pushing it as an ‘undiscovered gastronomic haven of £2 wine’
Viner seeks splendid isolation at the Guardian
The paper’s editor is set for a global role – taking her further away from dealing with the newsroom and its fractious union
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The Reform MP has tabled a staggering 816 written questions to ministers since being elected an MP. How much is it costing the taxpayer?
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Is Labour’s vision for Britain taking off at last?
When it comes to Brexit, politics still trumps economics
A new report from Best for Britain overlooks a crucial problem that will frustrate Britain’s attempts to build closer ties with the EU
Anti-Brexit Clarkson embarrasses the Sun
The columnist has launched another attack on those who still back Brexit – which includes his own employer
Fixing Brexit can help Labour defeat Reform
If coupled with actual delivery of better arrangements with the EU, Reform’s weakness on Brexit is fertile ground
Letters: The Holocaust is a warning from history
We should never forget what happened and be aware that it could all too easily happen again, here and now
Starmer ducks the inevitable on the EU.. again
At some point soon, the PM is going to have to choose Europe over Trump’s USA
Starmer is penned in by May’s red lines
The PM’s trip to Brussels is almost worthless while he adheres to the Brexit position laid out by his failed predecessor
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What Kosovo has that Britain doesn’t
The country goes to the polls on Sunday – and the people of Kosovo know exactly what they want
The shooting in Sweden: “an event which shakes our entire society”
Eleven people are dead in the latest outbreak of horrifying violence in Sweden. Can the nation hold together?
The dark shadow of the AfD hangs over German politics
The leader of one of Germany’s main political parties relied on the extreme right wing AfD party to get his immigration bill through parliament. Big mistake
What Trump doesn’t understand about Greenland
A complex set of historic agreements between the US and Denmark means that if he wants Greenland, Trump might have to give up something in return
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
Brutalism: a dream of form and function
In the 1990s, Britain fell out of love with its concrete masterpieces – but then it all changed
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