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The cost of Elon Musk’s dangerous lies
The ranting billionaire embarrassed himself, Donald Trump… and Nigel Farage. Now he has to pay the price
How to wake up woke
The clamour for social justice got waylaid by too much virtue-signalling and too little action. Trump says it’s dead. But it is needed more than ever
ARD and Germany’s first media scandal of the year
The scandal, which involves toxic masculinity, sexism and cancel culture, asks if this century allows for second chances
Interview: Stella Creasy – ‘Brexit is a bad dream… but there’s no Bobby Ewing moment’
The chair of the Labour Movement for Europe explains why the group is not campaigning to rejoin the EU – but trying to salvage relations instead
Inside Serbia’s student revolution
Students have been leading weeks of nationwide protests in Serbia and the regime doesn’t seem to know what to do
Keith Jarrett: The agony and the ecstasy
How a grumpy star, a broken piano and an improvised set added up to a timeless jazz classic recorded 50 years ago – the legendary Köln Concert
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Labour is squandering the chance to tell its economic story
The Spanish holiday villa dream is over, thanks to Brexit
Cartoon: The inauguration
What Musk and Putin have in common
Creasy: It’s time to drop red lines with EU
Why Trump is the anti-Reagan
Spain’s parrot pandemic
Estonia’s culture fights for independence from Putin’s Russia
Writers
Alastair Campbell
The cost of Elon Musk’s dangerous lies
Tanit Koch
ARD and Germany’s first media scandal of the year
James Ball
Labour is squandering the chance to tell its economic story
Bonnie Greer
What I got wrong about Donald Trump and America
Paul Mason
If the facts change, Rachel Reeves can change her mind
Liz Gerard
How the Express keeps on digging
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Labour is squandering the chance to tell its economic story
Keir Starmer is wasting time on bizarre claims about AI and productivity instead of convincing voters that he has a real plan.
The Spanish holiday villa dream is over, thanks to Brexit
Spain’s PM is ready to slap a 100% tax on property bought by buyers from non-EU countries
Would you pay £41 for a Cameo appearance from Steve Baker?
The self-styled ‘Brexit hardman’ has been reduced to flogging videos of himself on a celebrity website
Cartoon: The inauguration
What Musk and Putin have in common
The Ukraine invasion and Musk’s Twitter buyout of Twitter show how weak accountability is in authoritarian regimes and among ultra-rich tech titans
Is Andrew Neil really a five-times-a-week man?
The broadcaster rails against the four-day week, yet took Fridays off during a recent radio stint
Podcasts
The Two Matts
If AI is going to save the UK, who will save Rachel Reeves?
The Two Matts
Q&A: No more inquiries, Elon’s talking points & Neil Oliver’s hair
The Two Matts
Mark Zuckerberg and his Two-Facebook
The Two Matts
2025: The most consequential year of our lifetimes?
The Two Matts
Q&A: Milestones vs Millstones
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Estonia’s culture fights for independence from Putin’s Russia
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reignited fears in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
Kosovo: where women will decide the election
Though many women are stuck at home, they are now the best educated section of the electorate. If the Kosovan government stays in power, it will be down to them
Musk’s German ally takes the extreme mainstream
Alice Weidel spouts fake facts and demonises Muslims – and she is getting closer to becoming Germany’s chancellor
Elon Musk enters German politics
The entrepreneur’s foray into European politics and obsession with the AfD is troubling, given his megaphone X
What Musk and Putin have in common
The Ukraine invasion and Musk’s Twitter buyout of Twitter show how weak accountability is in authoritarian regimes and among ultra-rich tech titans
Ukraine’s painful beauty
A Kyiv gallery has defied Russian missile attacks to stage a visceral but tender art competition for artists under 35
How Labour can prove it stands by Ukraine
The strategically important city of Pokrovsk is in Putin’s sights. The government should do everything it can to stop him – starting with donating surplus MoD equipment to Volodymyr Zelensky
We were always going to betray Ukraine
Zelensky has done all he can. But as the final sell-out approaches, the west has not done nearly enough
Ukraine is the new Berlin
As the second coming of Donald Trump threatens a sell-out of Kyiv, Europe finds itself pondering events of 75 years ago
UK soft power failed with Putin – it’s time for the hard option
Britain and Europe are up against an alliance of evil. Now is the time to resist Russia, and for the UK to lead by example
Macron and Le Pen squabble among the ruins of Mayotte
The next battleground for the French president and Rassemblement National’s leader is the cyclone-hit, French-owned archipelago in the Indian Ocean
Portraits of love, loss and legacy
Intimate stories and unbreakable bonds in an exhibition of portraits that dig deep into our European ways of life and death
The burger joint that will close when its single cow runs out
Against the odds, A Real Pain is a triumph
How We Live in Time gets cancer right
France and Britain need to learn from each other
The big-time film mogul who saw the importance of making art
A river runs through it
The big-time film mogul who saw the importance of making art
Eurovision’s first breakout success
Soviet cinema’s reluctant dissident
Silvana Mangano, the star who shunned the spotlight
The little machine with a higher gear than the rest
