Agent Orange

The PM’s first budget must show the meaning behind his mantra – by challenging us to be citizens rather than impatient observers

In an exclusive extract from his brilliant new book Persevilience, Alastair Campbell reflects on his time at the heart of the New Labour media operation, and what it taught him

ITV’s documentary reveals the party as a hotbed of racists baying for concentration camps and executions

The comforting idea that we can understand and persuade our enemies is leading the world towards disaster

Humans have been slaughtering each other for millennia. One philosopher thinks now is the best time to be alive – but there are reasons to doubt him

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The annual crisis over Protestant marches might have been avoided had we followed Mandela’s example

Our national obsession with immigration – and the pejorative language we use about it – has got to change

Son of the extremist former president Jair Bolsonaro, Flávio offers more of the same culture war, Trumpy chaos. It is the country that will bear the brunt – again

A high-profile English politician proposes the idea of killing immigrants in the English Channel. How has it come to this?

Under Orbán, Hungary seemed lost to the far right. But a new PM has shown how to pull a nation back from authoritarianism – and it’s working

Narendra Modi has a plan for winning the next election – and the thousands of demonstrators on the streets don’t like it one bit

Brussels wants a deal done fast before a probable Le Pen victory in France – but unrealistic spending proposals make that unlikely

The polls are clear – an overwhelming number of voters want to rejoin the EU. Millions of Brexit voters have died and the young want to get back in

Fraud counts for 50% of all UK crime, and a large amount originates from overseas. But the victims aren’t just the westerners who lose their money

The PM’s first budget must show the meaning behind his mantra – by challenging us to be citizens rather than impatient observers

In an exclusive extract from his brilliant new book Persevilience, Alastair Campbell reflects on his time at the heart of the New Labour media operation, and what it taught him

Our parents, friends and colleagues pass away – but their memories, their values and the advice we think they would give us live on

ITV’s documentary reveals the party as a hotbed of racists baying for concentration camps and executions

John Healey needs to find a huge amount of money – but he can’t cut welfare or put up taxes on ‘working people’. So what options does the chancellor actually have?

The original complaints about school conditions have been completely lost in a mess of competing political interests, many of which are being driven from abroad

Dire midterm polls, sackings, a dodgy deal with Putin... all looks bad for the president. But he might take the US down with him

The comforting idea that we can understand and persuade our enemies is leading the world towards disaster

New Musk-run voting machines, Kansas ruled not a real state and Hegseth to face a firing squad… is this America’s future?

It doesn’t belong to cowboys or Trump – it’s diverse, funny, rebellious and brilliant

Åsne Seierstad’s extraordinary Never Say War exposes the violence and indifference at the heart of Russia

Garmus's exquisite new book Peck & Peck champions creativity, honour and emotional intelligence – no wonder she thinks the president and his cronies won’t get it

After a coal waste slide killed 116 children and 28 adults in a Welsh colliery village in October 1966, US photographer Chuck Rapoport’s camera captured a community frozen by grief but trying to carry on

The ‘swashbuckling comedy’ starring Sacha Baron Cohen will feature some familiar faces transported to the Shakespearean era

We are willing to forgive holograms and ex-bandmates playing the hits – but not a good old-fashioned impersonator

Min Jin Lee’s long-awaited book third book exposes the sacrifices and betrayals that drive family ambition

DJ Taylor’s enthralling biography covers both the writer’s extraordinary imagination and his reactionary views

The thing about black holes is that they’re not actually black – they glow. And that’s where the mystery begins

In his new book, Signs from the Future, the great philosopher decodes today’s chaos and warns of worse to come

The groundbreaking Gone With the Wind star who was nearly shut out of a segregated Oscars ceremony

Richard Tice and Isabel Oakeshott finally tied the knot – then headed off for a romantic break whingeing on social media

Simon Dudley was dismissed after making ‘shocking’ comments after the Grenfell Tower disaster. Now it appears he is back in the party fold

Oxford professor Lola Salem, who lived with the former politician for two years, has been charged with possession of indecent images of children

The hard right channel is launching its own music radio station – with no foreign acts allowed

The president shared a quote claiming the actor had said he was ‘a great friend and an even better president’. Except it wasn’t true

The weird and wonderful ways the world says ‘nonsense’

A six-hour cinema marathon became a moving reminder of why we need each other