Gisèle Pelicot: Person of the year 2024

Nigel Farage says his party can win the 2029 election. He is right

Our 2024 Person of the Year has changed the rules, reversed the language and given women permission to reject shame

Marine Le Pen stands accused of risking her country’s stability to keep herself out of jail. Sound familiar?

How British music turned away from America and learned to love the continent

Oxford University Press’s word of the year suggests social media has become a drug-like distraction from the world

It may not quite be ‘Google Maps of the human body’, but it’s not far off

No matter how the plot of this particular election thriller ends, Romanian institutions must do better in the future

A fine balance between popular anger and state violence engulfs Tbilisi every evening

The New European tracks down the Question Time audience member who won plaudits for destroying Reform’s immigration lies

Sometimes when you leave the mistakes in, conversation can become even more picturesque

The German racing driver’s memorial site is in a fitting location, close to a fast-paced autobahn

The next Archbishop of Canterbury must tackle decline, division and the tarnished legacy of Justin Welby

Most Labour supporters don’t realise how muscular their own tradition will have to become to survive what’s coming

First published in 1924, his masterpiece Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain) is a highbrow ode to chilling

Nigel Farage says his party can win the 2029 election. He is right

How can the PM connect with voters when he and his advisers keep spewing out meaningless word salad?

It underlined that he views politics mainly through the lens of personality and rarely bothers with policy

Our 2024 Person of the Year has changed the rules, reversed the language and given women permission to reject shame

Assad’s survival was Putin’s way of showing he was still a global player. When the collapse came, he was powerless to prevent it

The corporation dropped the word to avoid offending off-air staff – but now can’t agree on a new one

Jokes on the Have I Got News For You Twitter account were too much for the thin-skinned and thick-headed Reform MP

The food writer who quit the Observer in November is making a temporary comeback at King’s Place

Nigel Farage’s party has had to snub nearly £70,000 of funding

Photographer Andrew McConnell set out to record cosmonauts in Kazakhstan – but found the local people infinitely more fascinating

To all the naysayers who doubt we can return to the EU, we have no choice. If Starmer really believes in Britain, it must be done

Marine Le Pen stands accused of risking her country’s stability to keep herself out of jail. Sound familiar?

It’s almost impossible to find any data about the UK’s housing market which is not dreadful in comparison with our European neighbours. There is one place to start

How British music turned away from America and learned to love the continent

Inspired by Goya, the Portuguese artist’s versions of Humpty Dumpty and Three Blind Mice are very much not for children

A beautiful memoir about the ugly side of Europe tops our round-up of 2024’s best non-fiction

An astounding, eccentric documentary uncovers a murky assassination plot involving Belgium, the CIA and Louis Armstrong

Even before Gregg Wallace ended his own career, the time was ripe for a change. Here are four names who could shake things up

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books

The pronunciation of his name has always been debatable, but its origin seems clear enough – and it’s not from the Huguenots

For a woman who never desired the limelight, Silvana Mangano achieved cinematic immortality almost in spite of herself

Watching a game with people supporting the same team as you is one of the most deeply social experiences you can have