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There is a difference between riding your luck and being lucky, just ask Leah Williamson and the Lionesses

A female nurse in Scotland became the focus of a witch hunt that shows how Britain’s institutions have become overcome by an elite ideology

If you had said to me then she might end up attached to a powerful man, able to build and exploit connections wherever he found them, I could well have seen how it may happen

Beneath the peak of Monte Soratte near Rome is a vast, eerie tunnel complex – an underground graveyard of the German troops who died there

Thirty years on, the genocide is remembered annually, but locals feel forgotten and struggle with ongoing division

A year after riots swept Britain, Reform’s leader and his supporters are warning of future unrest unless their policies are followed. The message is a threat wrapped in respectability

A festival in Leipzig marks half a century since sex workers and priests stood together in solidarity against police violence

Russia has intensified its aerial assault on Kyiv. One night may pass in relative calm, giving a fragile sense of normality. The next, destruction starts again

To avoid chaos, and in true German style, the country’s schools break-up for summer at different times

The president thinks tariffs make America stronger. The EU knows better - and walked away from a fight not worth having

The government wants to extend the franchise to 16 and 17-year olds. But it’s a move that could backfire

In an exclusive interview, Gary Lineker talks to Matt Kelly about the war in Gaza, his exit from the BBC, and life as a podcasting media mogul

Farage is winning by whipping up anger and then claiming to be the only one who can quell it. It’s time Starmer ‘hugs the cactus’ by confronting the Reform leader’s claims – and his supporters

This summer has shown us two visions of the country. Only one deserves to win

The first unmanned flying weapon was launched over a century ago – the full implications of that flight are only now being understood

He is on TV and social media spreading outright disinformation. It seems no one can do anything about it

People are being dragged towards a deeply flawed new political project that will act as a wrecking ball for the Labour Party

The Brexiteers’ dream trade deal is finally done - but government hype doesn't match the facts

The hard right channel and the ecosystem which feeds it are behaving like the Japanese soldier who held out for nearly 29 years after the war ended

Conspiracy theorist Candace Owens claims that France’s first lady was born a man. Now the president and his wife will face her in court

He enjoys attacking the left of his party, but the PM’s reversal on planning laws sets him up for a confrontation with his loyalists

The problem with Britain’s justice system is that incarceration is more than a punishment – it destroys lives

If its value was that it was greatly appreciated by so many people, do the individual trees being felled largely unseen in Brazilian rainforests count for less?

Nigel Farage’s Trumpian ‘crackdown on crime’ is farcical, unworkable… and deeply, deeply dangerous

The post-2008 financial rules are there for a very good reason. Taking them apart would give our Gordon Gekkos free rein

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The constitutional court remains untouched by chaos and is still the country’s most trusted institution

Trump’s policies have reduced the desperate stream of people trying to reach the US through Central America to a trickle

Without structural support, the country’s living tradition of artisanal goldwork teeters on the edge of extinction

If more Italian hospitals were made as welcoming as the Rizzoli, patients would be less scared to go inside in search of help

In accelerating the charges laid against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Javier Milei created a new national myth