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Farage’s lucky streak won’t last
Nigel Farage’s Reform are set for an election breakthrough on May 1. But the seeds of the fledgling party’s downfall are in its leader’s personality
A very British victory for women
The fundamental error in the case that led to the Supreme Court ruling was one of wilful blindness: the refusal of trans rights activists to acknowledge that there were two vulnerable groups involved in this controversy
Watching my trans friend come alive
How you relate to your gender shouldn’t really be anyone else’s business. In reality, everyone ends up having an opinion
How populism gives youth wings
Bitter at the old politics, young Germans saw the far-right AfD as a revitalising tonic. How can the left get that taste out of their mouths?
Bolivia, where a former president is on the run
Ever since his exile in 2019, Evo Morales has been lining up a return to power and now he’s summoned his supporters
The flowering of Anselm Kiefer
Arresting and alarming, consoling and unashamedly beautiful, two exhibitions in Amsterdam and one in Oxford are showing the work of arguably the most significant living artist
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Who makes the Pope’s coffin?
The war against the youth mobility scheme is embarrassing
Can Starmer sell Britain on the Brexit reset summit deal?
Steve Witkoff, the world’s worst diplomat
Yes, the UK-EU defence pact risk is about fish
PMQs: Shock as Badenoch achieves the unthinkable
Facebook’s free speech battle
Letters: It will take real Labour to beat Reform
Writers
Alastair Campbell
Why Mark Carney is one of the luckiest politicians alive
Tanit Koch
Why you should visit Heligoland
James Ball
Facebook’s free speech battle
Bonnie Greer
What I got wrong about Donald Trump and America
Paul Mason
Britain needs a new national story
Liz Gerard
How the Express keeps on digging
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Who makes the Pope’s coffin?
Burying a Pope is a complicated business. Somewhere deep inside the Vatican, in a highly secret location, a group of carpenters is creating a very special casket
The war against the youth mobility scheme is embarrassing
Farage and Badenoch are embarrassing themselves with opposition to a completely benign scheme
The penny finally drops for Boris Johnson – Trump is no friend of Ukraine
After months of defending his hero, the former prime minister has finally realised the president has no interest in aiding the war-ravaged country
Can Starmer sell Britain on the Brexit reset summit deal?
Will a focus on cheaper food and energy be enough to drown out complaints about sovereignty and fishing rights – especially when the PM struggles to communicate?
Lee Anderson accuses London mayor of drive-by splashing
The Reform MP pointed his finger at Sadiq Khan after his suit got soaked by a puddle
Not everyone’s welcoming Lord Gove of Torry
The new Conservative peer has revealed the name he will take in the upper house – but some natives of the Aberdeen suburb it honours are unhappy
Podcasts
The Two Matts
The truth about Pope Francis … and your reaction to our trans debate
The Two Matts
How to grow your moral ambition, with Rutger Bregman
The Two Matts
Q&A: why can’t we go to the bleedin’ shop today?
The Two Matts
Supreme sense? The aftermath of the trans rights ruling
The Two Matts
But what is Britain anyway?
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Why you should visit Heligoland
Eighty years ago, the island was nearly wiped off the map. Today it relies on wind-farm crews more than tourists
Greenland knows what it wants, and it’s not JD Vance
If the vice-president wishes to return to the country, he may want to be better prepared
The revenge of the Spanish economy
Spain has made a spectacular economic recovery since the last economic crash– but Spaniards are still struggling and fear Trump’s tariffs might trigger another disaster
North Macedonia loses an entire generation
With 59 fatalities and over 200 hospitalisations, the fire at Club Pulse was the stuff of nightmares
Steve Witkoff, the world’s worst diplomat
He is a life-long property developer. So how the hell did he end up as America’s top international negotiator, on everything from Ukraine to the Iran nuclear deal?
The fall of Saigon, 50 years on
Half a century ago, a humiliated America scrambled out of a losing war. But parallels with Ukraine show little has changed
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Putin’s dirty tricks campaign
Whether or not they were involved in the Heathrow fire, the Russians revel in the mayhem their hybrid actions cause
The day Putin took power
The foundations of the Kremlin strongman’s ascent to power were forged in the ruins of Grozny a quarter of a century ago
Ten Trump Lies – and where they came from
The president comes out with a ludicrous stream of nonsense. But some of what he says has its origins in some unexpected places
Letters: Britain is fundamentally European
The UK needs to be part of the European project as a fully active member. Only then can Europe truly stand united against both Trump and Putin
The fall of Saigon, 50 years on
Half a century ago, a humiliated America scrambled out of a losing war. But parallels with Ukraine show little has changed
Misan Harriman: A lens on a world in protest
The photographer’s images command attention – whether capturing the fiery passion of an activist rallying a crowd or the powerful, expressive gaze of a lone protester
Maria Schell, Hollywood’s grounded alien
Mutilated angels: the barbaric and beautiful world of the castrati
The flowering of Anselm Kiefer
If our food system is broken, Morrisons Gibraltar is a spindly cog in a dirty machine
When Dexter Gordon came to Denmark
Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: Nemesis help us
Maria Schell, Hollywood’s grounded alien
Totò, the unlucky actor who took it on the chin
Karl and Bertha Benz, the couple who drove into history
Rob Pilatus, the new Elvis who signed a deal with the devil
Jules Verne, the writer who travelled in his imagination
