The greatest betrayal

Spending 2.5% of GDP on defence is a good start – but it’s not enough

Donald Trump and the mind-bending insanity of his foreign policy that treats enemies as friends and vice versa

US support is gone forever. What kind of Europe will emerge from the wreckage?

Trump has shafted Ukraine. Now he threatens the security of the west

From Voltaire to Kant, the world would be a duller place without the discipline’s coffee-fuelled breakthroughs

Despite the lessons from the pandemic, the demagogues and their followers are all too ready to embrace a cult of death

Right wing politicians and media have made themselves look ridiculous with flimsy attacks on the chancellor

Spending 2.5% of GDP on defence is a good start – but it’s not enough

As the country’s courts become more Russian, the real Georgia can be found out on the streets

In these days of far right anti-Islam extremism, AfD politicians are quick to seize on any evidence of what they call the Islamisation of Germany

To avoid a repetition of this dark past, Spain’s citizens must listen to the testimonies of those who suffered at the hands of Franco’s torturers

The Belgian prime minister’s cries for the EU to stick to its core functions are selfish and short-sighted

Restaurateurs in Grisciano are on a ‘promotion mission’ to tell Pasta alla Gricia's origin tale to tourists

Donald Trump and the mind-bending insanity of his foreign policy that treats enemies as friends and vice versa

US support is gone forever. What kind of Europe will emerge from the wreckage?

Trump has shafted Ukraine. Now he threatens the security of the west

It took Ernest Bevin and a fear of Soviet expansion to bring Nato to life. Not even the US’s nationalistic retreat from Europe will kill it off

In a time of crisis, the former Labour leader says he’d rejoin the EU tomorrow – and wants the Brexit reset to be speeded up

The former prime minister is hardly on his uppers, but is charging a pretty penny for a keepsake snap

It’s been over three months since Jason Cowley stepped down and his successor is yet to be announced

The former prime minister has been reduced to giving interviews to obscure US YouTubers with a handful of viewers

The Conservative leader is being tipped for the chop. Fortunately for her it’s by Mystic Nads, British politics’ most reliably hopeless predictor of the future

Boris Johnson would be proud of his old paper’s spin on a pesticide ban

In these worryingly unpredictable times, the UK needs to be fully engaged with the EU, for our own safety, security and prosperity

Despite the CDU achieving one of its worst results ever, the party has managed to keep the AfD out of power – for now

Friedrich Merz is Germany’s new chancellor. But the far right are rising – and waiting for a moment of weakness

For three days every year, the quiet Piedmont town of Ivrea becomes a citrus-soaked battleground

A new film celebrates Martin Parr, recorder of the mischief and tenderness of British working class life

The American jazz pianist had a passion for teaching music, and created a bridge between the worlds of bebop and classical

Francis Picabia was derided for wartime nudes with a worryingly Aryan aspect. But a new exhibition of later work suggests we may need to re-evaluate him

The pork-filled stew – one of Portugal’s national dishes – is boundlessly hearty and invariably leads to a postprandial snooze

Robert De Niro, in his first regular television role, is extremely entertaining in Netflix's pacey riff on hypermodern cyberwarfare

Cornish was doomed after Latin was banished from church services in favour of English during the 1500s

‘Pippo’ soared to fame alongside Maria Callas in the 1950s but his playboy lifestyle ultimately led to the loss of his golden voice

As a Frenchwoman with Moroccan roots who has lived in Britain for 15 years, I don’t fully belong anywhere. But that is a privilege, not a pity