The Shit List 2024

The president-elect’s embrace of comedians, podcasters and combat sports stars is a lesson for hectoring liberals

The sneaky, the snobbish and the snide. The spiteful, the shameless and the downright sinister. They are all shits – and all here in the New European’s annual rundown of 50 people the UK could definitely do without

Across the world, a new coalition is growing – of exhausted people on all sides who are gunning for Scholz, Macron... and Starmer

The flawed star who floored a nation

The forgotten Scottish philosopher’s legacy resurfaced last week when his historic cello was played for the first time in 220 years

Physicists are searching for evidence of the existence of particles known as gravitons – to determine if gravity is a ‘quantum’ affair

Following a rise in politically motivated sentences after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, prisoners in Russia and Belarus have come to rely on letters from strangers

For Indochine and The Cure, two of the greatest bands associated with France and Britain respectively, pessimism is their signature sound

Despite the new globalised name, speculoos, thankfully, still taste like home

The country has an obsession with cleanliness but there are some kinks in its food waste system that need to be ironed out

If Umbria is hailed as the heart of Italy, then its capital, Perugia, is the heart of all things chocolatey

Giving frozen Russian assets to Ukraine would save Zelensky and send a defiant message to Trump

We cannot finesse our way out of the problem that the American people have swung isolationist

The former German chancellor has played it smart again by shrouding her memoirs in secrecy ahead of their release

The president-elect’s embrace of comedians, podcasters and combat sports stars is a lesson for hectoring liberals

In paying their tributes, many people are still underestimating the former deputy prime minister

The sneaky, the snobbish and the snide. The spiteful, the shameless and the downright sinister. They are all shits – and all here in the New European’s annual rundown of 50 people the UK could definitely do without

Across the world, a new coalition is growing – of exhausted people on all sides who are gunning for Scholz, Macron... and Starmer

The German artist returns with a playful book that shakes things up by bringing the surreal into the everyday

People who were born during the postwar ‘baby boom’ are sick of being tarred with the same brush. One size does not fit all

The Sun's political editor is eager for a transatlantic transfer now his Tory contacts are out of power

The flawed star who floored a nation

How a habitual jailbird became one of Germany’s most famous authors by writing about a Wild West he’d never visited

An edge-of-the-pulpit papal thriller from the screenwriter of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light offers lessons in weakness, venality and doubt

Once a painter of charming small-town scenes, Antonio Calderara radically departed into the abstract. But was this shift as sudden, or surprising, as it seems?

The inheritance tax debate is a little more nuanced than you will read on social media

Adapted from August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork and produced by Denzel Washington, this feature is a family affair

Many languages, including English, contain loan words ‘borrowed’ from other languages. But there is one notable exception – Icelandic

An adventurous romantic life lent almost a Zelig-like quality to the writer, constantly drawing her towards the centre of events

That we have seemingly managed to beat Elon Musk should be cause for celebration. Why, then, do I have this uneasiness about it?