Politics

When leaders meet at Munich, they must start the process of European rearmament in a way that takes account of the threat from Putin – and Trump

Viciously abused by her father, Ghislaine Maxwell made the horrible mistake of falling for a sexual predator

While older Britons have their final salary pensions and the triple lock, young people today can’t even afford to start a family. That could be pushing the country towards political disaster

The paedophile fixer’s depraved, narcissistic, super-rich circle have come to believe that they are beyond mortality and morals

Beliefs about equality are colliding with a constitutional ban on female conscription as a drive to increase Bundeswehr numbers ramps up

News reports that emerged from outside Iran put the number of dead protesters in the tens of thousands. Iranians inside the country, who took part in the demonstrations, tell a very different story

In the Kenyan mountains, a collection of colonial-era party houses is slowly rotting away. What should a nation do with the remains of its imperial past?

Elon Musk is getting excited about a new social media platform for AI systems. For once – unusually – he might not be completely in the wrong

Gustavo Petro went to the White House as Trump’s South American enemy No 1. But things turned out a little different than expected

The actor talks gangsters from New Jersey to Washington DC – and why he feels ‘sick’ about the state of his country

People in autocratic and chaotic countries believe in their governments more than we do in ours - it’s about feeling that your children will be better off

Macmillan was a real statesman, while Starmer is a failed party manager. Their shared flaw is that neither were curious enough

A permacrisis premiership is finished. A Labour defeat in the Gorton & Denton by-election would signal even deeper problems for his successor

There’s still a way the Amazon boss can save his legacy, even as his hitman Sir William Lewis walks away from the wreckage of the great American newspaper he owns

Editor-at-large Alastair Campbell on the reaction to the Mandelson affair, the calls for Starmer to go, and what happens to this government - and the United Kingdom - next

Keir Starmer’s path has always been a lonely one. Now, he is out of friends and nearly out of a job

The disgraced Labour guru speaks candidly from his massage table about the real victim of the Epstein scandal: himself

Somewhere along the line people got the idea that the state was the enemy of the people. But that’s dead wrong and the government needs to prove it

The boys’ club inside No 10 has brought the government to the edge of disaster. It’s time to sweep all that away

Labour MPs have had enough. They want to see the back of Morgan McSweeney, Starmer’s closest adviser, followed by the PM himself

Links to Putin, Bannon and Thiel deserve further investigation

A strong prime minister survives this scandal. This prime minister will not

In a major essay, a historian of contemporary Russia describes the deep networks of global power and political corruption that Epstein exploited to make his fortune

A new group of centrist Conservative politicians launched their fightback against Badenoch in a cellar near Charing Cross station. They don’t stand a chance

The enormous span of the right wing pundit’s ambition is becoming increasingly clear

Economic facts are catching up with the political untruths of the Trump administration

Trump’s public health appointees are spreading such dangerous disinformation that it’s killing Americans. The world of science has to take a stand

The far right populist is likely to be the next president of France. A new book explains why

Sorry, but leaving the universe to right itself is just misguided wishful thinking

From Mariupol to Tehran, Cecilia Sala’s new book captures young people forced into extraordinary acts of resistance

Write to letters@thenewworld.co.uk to have your views voiced in the magazine

It’s the one lesson that power-mad authoritarians always forget – and nowhere embodies that truth more than Afghanistan