What is he smoking?

We must defeat the software of despair and stop its rewiring of our politics

Targeting ill and disabled people is a desperate move from the prime minister. Sick, you might say

The prime minister saw a cigarette ban as his final chance to write a positive legacy. Then more Tory chaos left his relaunch in tatters

In Brooklyn’s Little Odessa, Russians and Ukrainians live side by side, in the shadow of a distant conflict

It’s not just through his writing that this important thinker will exert an influence long after his death

David Cameron’s return to frontline politics resembles a grown-up arriving at a children’s party

In the age of the drone and the ballistic missile, national security does not come cheap

People in Tbilisi are protesting Georgia’s Russification. Instead, they want to be part of the EU

The brain drain of talent from the poorer south to the richer north has created a crisis in the country’s health sector

An excess of news has created a generation more open to thinking beyond a western narrative

After six gender-based murders so far this year, Greek women now feel such tragedies are inevitable

In 2023, Catalonia’s drought halved wine production and this year is only expected to be worse

In Spargelzeit season, it’s hard to find a restaurant that doesn’t offer a special Spargel menu

During Boris Johnson’s time as editor, it became known as the ‘Sextator’ because of the lifestyles of his staff

We must defeat the software of despair and stop its rewiring of our politics

Targeting ill and disabled people is a desperate move from the prime minister. Sick, you might say

The prime minister saw a cigarette ban as his final chance to write a positive legacy. Then more Tory chaos left his relaunch in tatters

The Mail claims that NHS funding rises prove Brexit’s most notorious slogan was right. They’re wrong again

Worrying stories about UPFs are everywhere. But the truth is more complex than the headlines suggest

As a queer woman, I feel my identity is as important as anyone else’s. Yet where is my place of safety?

In Brooklyn’s Little Odessa, Russians and Ukrainians live side by side, in the shadow of a distant conflict

In 1974, Portugal had the lowest wages and highest illiteracy in western Europe. Then came the Carnation Revolution

The Third Man turns 75

Beethoven’s fascination with the Enlightenment eventually led him to adapt Schiller’s poem An die Freude (Ode to Joy) into his Ninth Symphony

An exhibition of 150 objects found in the river opens at the Archaeological Crypt on Île de la Cité, Paris

His great contemporaries are gone, but the director is still shaking his fists – and miraculously, his films are getting even better

To Liverpool, for lunch with a wonderful orator

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

Quo Vadis is fun but Rossellini's neorealism showed us Rome as it was

It sits on the border between Tibet and Nepal, but Everest is best known by its English name – given in honour of a Welsh geographer

Whatever and wherever he played, his deep feeling for the music made the instrument seem like an extension of him

Is crying such a bad thing? I’ve been doing a lot of it recently, for reasons regular readers will be aware of, and it never ceases to help