Age of the charlatans

Virginia Giuffre is dead, and a royal is disgraced. But time after time, powerful men keep escaping real justice

Donald Trump has declared victory for himself – but without compromises and cash to rebuild Gaza, his hopes are built on sand

Conmen don’t win people over with arguments. Instead, they reflect their dreams back at them – and everyone’s a sucker for that

Everyone knows the famous image of the photographer in Hitler’s bath. But her lesser-known work is equally compelling

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Students in the US believe the UK has a free speech problem and the vice president is spinning this myth as a reality

This year’s preparations for Dashain, Nepal’s biggest Hindu festival, quickly turned to despair as the rains swept homes away and stranded residents

Another inquiry, another set of shocking truths. South Africa’s real crisis isn’t corruption – it’s the lack of consequences

From September to early October, red wine gushes from Rome’s central two fountains. Forget the Trevi, this is what you need to see when you visit

While Donald Trump may have forged a ceasefire, an exhibition at Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe outlines the cultural vandalism Palestinians have suffered

The recent parliamentary election result was not a show of support for PAS but instead one for Europe – and against Russia

As Karl Schlögel reminded us, Putin waged this war in Ukraine not only for military means, but as a battle for hearts and minds

The hard left wants to globalise the intifada, imagining that defeating Zionism will liberate humanity. Their delusion is close to religious mania

Virginia Giuffre is dead, and a royal is disgraced. But time after time, powerful men keep escaping real justice

Donald Trump has declared victory for himself – but without compromises and cash to rebuild Gaza, his hopes are built on sand

A clownish spy scandal has shown up the severe shortcomings of British security, and given the Labour government an even bigger Chinese problem

Satire has become one of the few sources of political sanity in the US. Now, one of its chief exponents is mulling a run for office

Conmen don’t win people over with arguments. Instead, they reflect their dreams back at them – and everyone’s a sucker for that

The western left sees Latin America through the lens of revolution and anti-imperial struggle. But when that view meets reality – as in Venezuela today – solidarity turns to silence

Everyone knows the famous image of the photographer in Hitler’s bath. But her lesser-known work is equally compelling

Labour’s plans have caused huge controversy. But ‘100% digital’ Estonia shows how e-government can save time and money for ordinary people

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

Russia bought themselves a senior member of the Reform party to do their bidding. He’s been found guilty – why does no one seem to care?

The mysterious serial killer who terrorised Florence is the subject of yet another true crime Netflix show

In a former grain silo, two pioneering abstract artists’ visions of warmth and peace

Lucy Easthope, one of the world’s prominent emergency planners, on coping with horror and tragedy

Welcome to Sora, the AI video platform so powerful it risks throwing the entire internet, and all its users, into confusion

The Artist’s Way is an old self-help book enjoying a revival – because its advice seems tailor-made for our scrolling world

The celebrity version of the show offers fake deaths and fake terror, but surprisingly real tedium

Shootings and snakes won’t stop Nicholas Evans’s award-winning work documenting the world’s smaller languages

In his boldest book yet, Ben Myers turns his gaze on the German actor’s infamous 1971 performance and on his own obsession with it

The industry has fostered a cult of personality that seems to leave the tech press starstruck and unquestioning of nonsensical claims

Bold and unsettling, Luca Guadagnino’s latest project easily transcends its contemporary source material

The Thai duty-free magnate bought Leicester City and brought it the most unlikely title in English football history

Christian Calgie has been forced to apologise after taking to social media to call for Zarah Sultana to be thrown out of the country

The Tories have made the unusual decision of handing one of their prized committee places to former Reform man Rupert Lowe

Laure Ferrari faces a criminal fraud verdict in Brussels over alleged misuse of €730,000 in EU funds

The shadow justice secretary and Wolves fan has been reminiscing about matches he could not possibly have attended

Shaun Remmer says he was sacked as a teaching assistant for putting up flags. The truth, inevitably, is rather different

The magazine appropriated one of its most famous contributors for its new column. Not everyone was delighted

Morphemes are the building blocks essential for the composition of words

I’ve no idea why film is the one medium I just can’t seem to crack. Maybe it’s my attention span