Project: Smear Starmer

After eight successful seasons at Anfield, Team Germany really needs Kloppo to come home

German protests against AfD’s far right extremism show us how to beat the populists

Everything is impossible, as Nelson Mandela liked to put it, until you make it happen

The right wing press is stepping up its attacks on Labour’s leader as the general election nears. But what happens if he wins?

If US politics gets any stranger, it's going to be hard to explain it any other way

The state of Europe’s fighting forces was too controversial a topic for the Davos agenda

Soon, China’s politics will give way to economics and its debt crisis will inevitably entail pain for consumers

The icon of St Matrona of Moscow and Stalin has caused a remarkable division of opinion in Georgia, culminating in an act of vandalism

Jannick Sinner’s victory at the Australian Open proves that Italians, like us all, love a winner

The Serbian leader's authoritarian grip is tightening amid allegations of election irregularities and growing discontent

The party is banking on the country turning a blind eye to its past – but the German citizens have had a wake-up call

Finland has rejected the far right, but is the country ready for a gay, Green head of state in Pekka Haavisto?

After eight successful seasons at Anfield, Team Germany really needs Kloppo to come home

The Sun ran an article under a headline championing the business secretary as the ‘new Mrs T’

German protests against AfD’s far right extremism show us how to beat the populists

The Beatles gave young Americans gold standard permission to be different from their parents

Everything is impossible, as Nelson Mandela liked to put it, until you make it happen

The right wing press is stepping up its attacks on Labour’s leader as the general election nears. But what happens if he wins?

The farmer blockades show that Emmanuel Macron and the City of Light must put on a winning show this summer for a deeply divided country

Just as food inflation finally slows, new border checks will make EU produce more expensive in our shops

A misfiring ‘personalised’ video by Rishi Sunak proves that politicians are getting online comms badly wrong

In this extract from his new book, bestselling author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers suggests we start to focus on the kind of world we want, not the one we don’t

If it’s difficult to believe what’s happening in America, remember what our electorate has done to this country since 2016

The Tories’ delusion knows no bounds – their electoral annihilation will be blamed on everyone and everything other than themselves

Sixty years on, are the Pink Panther films still funny?

A Russian author is declared a ‘terrorist’ for opposing Putin. American writers are banned in right-wing states. Where will this end?

The artist's landscapes inspired German romanticism and are now turning him into a green icon

In a bold reinvention, Sam Spade, the hardboiled San Francisco private eye made famous by Bogart, surfaces in 1960s France

Porridge might not sound exciting but this one contains dates providing sweetness, the seeds a nice crunch and the coconut milk adding creaminess

Both Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas had interesting linguistic backgrounds, which may have contributed to their creativity with words

The singer almost came to embody the nation’s revival before it all ended at the dawn of a decade that could have been made for him

When ordering from a Japanese bakery a lot can be lost in translation