Is 2026 the year that Britain’s universities go bankrupt?
Immigration crackdowns are cutting revenues from overseas students – and now some institutions are on the brink
Politics
The most libidinous plan the EU ever created
The Erasmus scheme allowed millions of UK students to broaden their horizons – and also their private lives
The ghosts of Brexit past return to wail about Erasmus
Rejoining the reciprocal study scheme has infuriated Brexiteers – and given new impetus to calls for a full return to the EU
The pope vs MAGA
A hard core of American Catholic ultra-conservatives look at the White House and like what they see. The new man in the Vatican takes a different view
We are Putin’s next target
Most politicians remain oblivious to the threat, especially on the left. But they must realise Putin could do to us what he’s done to Ukraine, without firing a shot
How the world forgot James Hutton
A Scottish geologist made a discovery that altered the way we see ourselves, and our planet. And yet his name is widely forgotten
Is 2026 the year that Britain’s universities go bankrupt?
Immigration crackdowns are cutting revenues from overseas students – and now some institutions are on the brink
We are Putin’s next target
Most politicians remain oblivious to the threat, especially on the left. But they must realise Putin could do to us what he’s done to Ukraine, without firing a shot
The year in pictures
A turbulent 2025 unfolded in striking contrasts – from apocalyptic climate disasters and surging global protests to the ever-present threat of war
The war on veggie burgers
French right wing MEPs are leading a campaign to ban words like ‘steak’ and ‘sausage’ from vegan food
The Italian town that doesn’t celebrate Christmas
Terranera, a tiny mountaintop hamlet of 50 residents, doesn’t organise its festivities by the Christian calendar or tradition
Who stole Jesus’s head?
A new nativity display in the centre of Brussels is so widely detested that it might have to be taken down early
The year in pictures
A turbulent 2025 unfolded in striking contrasts – from apocalyptic climate disasters and surging global protests to the ever-present threat of war
Who’s funding David Frost’s climate-sceptic think thank?
The Institute of Economic Affairs has received huge amounts of cash from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch
When climate fiction stops being fiction
As Cop30 approaches, apocalyptic visions look more everyday than ever
The Tory peer and the heat pump job he failed to clear
Former energy minister Martin Callanan has taken a job with a heat pump firm he failed to clear with the watchdog
Sponsor at Farage’s own conference accuses him of ‘far right’ rhetoric
The founder of Quews News has used his YouTube channel to slam the Reform leader’s views on immigration
Utopia, with solar panels
Solarpunk began as a sci-fi vision of a beautiful, sustainable planet. Now it inspires Hollywood movies and real-life tech. Can it change the world?
The year of the non-browning banana
25 hopeful stories from technology in 2025
Sorry Aussie kids – you have been permanently logged out of your account
Young people got depressed, anxious and led astray long before social media arrived. So is the new ban in Australia really going to do any good? And if so, how will we be able to tell?
My electric dream in Kathmandu
People around here think that if you drive an electric vehicle, you’re likely to end up either on fire, or in a nightmarish traffic accident. But attitudes are changing
Elon Musk contradicts himself on Nazism
The X owner compared the European Union to the Nazis – just a week after calling for anyone using the label to be treated as inciters to murder
NFTs: a warning from history
The last time the world got over-excited about a new technology, people lost a lot of money – and ended up looking pretty stupid. The AI bubble risks being just the same
When X marks the spot: Twitter maps its users
A lot of those ranting MAGA Twitter accounts aren’t based in the US – but the reason for that isn’t what you think
Naomi Alderman: ‘The right side is not largely defined by your opinions’
Joan Armatrading shows the right are wrong about Birmingham
The man at the heart of the Kraftwerk machine
An Iranian exile’s rebellion in sound
Art across the UK/China divide
“We need to understand that the good guys rape”
What we can learn from disasters
