Punching Putin

Harris has seized the momentum in the presidential campaign but still faces a tough battle with Trump

If you fail to see beyond the Trump lies, the chaos and narcissism, you fail to understand why people might vote for him in the first place

Post-Brexit subsidies were supposed to save the countryside. Instead they’ve given landowners incentives to oust their tenant farmers

How Van Gogh’s sister-in-law let go of his work and cemented his legend

In somewhat grandiose fashion, the film star imagined his dog Loubo couldn’t continue to flourish in a world that no longer included him

The election of hundreds of new MPs presents Parliament with a short window of opportunity

The redevelopment of a bombed ministry complex in the Serbian capital is set to feature a Trump-Kushner hotel

My relentless pursuit of French fluency and European belonging has had its ups and downs but I realise I am making progress

The late Sven-Göran Eriksson faced scepticism and downright xenophobia from the British press but always remained a true gentleman of football

The Italian prime minister’s abortion law amendment has sparked fear and anger among women across the country

Police and demonstrators faced each other on the Chicago streets. The crowd chanted – but was anyone in the convention centre listening?

The new crop of MPs are faced with a Hogwarts-style parliament as the Tories’ leadership crisis rumbles on unabated

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has some tough decisions to make in October’s budget, but has options to achieve growth and avoid austerity

The far right AfD is poised for major wins this weekend’s eastern state elections amid rising discontent

The party’s president, Mark Pack, is facing questions as it could lose half a million pounds in a legal row

Harris has seized the momentum in the presidential campaign but still faces a tough battle with Trump

If you fail to see beyond the Trump lies, the chaos and narcissism, you fail to understand why people might vote for him in the first place

Ukraine’s daring incursion into Kursk shows a dictator in crisis, with the Russian people and China turning their backs on him

At anti-immigrant gatherings across Ireland one thing stands out: the youngsters

Vice-presidential picks don’t tend to swing US elections. But Kamala Harris’s choice, an authentic avatar of the Midwest, could change that

The photographer used his camera and the city of lights as a doorway to poetry

No amount of slightly closer cooperation in areas of little everyday benefit can get anywhere near the massive gains from being back in the EU

Post-Brexit subsidies were supposed to save the countryside. Instead they’ve given landowners incentives to oust their tenant farmers

The exploration of genetic modification for space travel raises ethical questions about altering human biology

How Van Gogh’s sister-in-law let go of his work and cemented his legend

Jeff Young’s Wild Twin is an uncompromisingly honest memoir of a lost teenage soul, of adventure, rebellion and the echoes of memory

A raucous, funny movie about controversial Northern Irish rap group Kneecap turns out to be an impassioned cry for the power of indigenous language

Launched in London by a pair of Italian brothers, the much-loved I Camisa is closing after nearly a century in Soho. Why?

Restaurants come and go but only the most lauded, talked-about and popular stick around for any length of time

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

One Bad Guy denouement makes me think of the Republican Party’s candidate for POTUS

The director emerged from a well-trodden European emigration narrative to become a Zelig-like figure in the early history of modern popular culture

Many slang and everyday Latin words, rather than upper-class vocabulary, shaped modern languages such as French and Spanish

Gentrification was supposed to be the beginning of an end. But if anything Brixton seems livelier than it has done for years