Beating Putin

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

The Afghan leak cover-up is symptomatic of a crumbling, outmoded state where self-preservation trumps honour

Europe could save Ukraine and defeat a dictator by shutting down Russia’s shadow fleet and scaling up its own defence production. But will wary voters accept rising tension as the price of peace?

Astronomer’s CEO and his head of HR have been shamed by the world. Does the punishment fit the crime?

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

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

After years in the culinary wilderness, pulses are becoming more popular in Britain. But yields are suffering as the climate crisis marches on

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

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

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

The Afghan leak cover-up is symptomatic of a crumbling, outmoded state where self-preservation trumps honour

Europe could save Ukraine and defeat a dictator by shutting down Russia’s shadow fleet and scaling up its own defence production. But will wary voters accept rising tension as the price of peace?

Trump’s supporters were promised revelations about a horrifying conspiracy. Instead, they’re getting denials and abuse from the president they helped elect

How can you test students if their work is being churned out by artificial intelligence?

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

In the first half of the 20th century, the country enjoyed a social and cultural renaissance. A group of photographers were there to document it

A new bill could have profound consequences for the sex trade. But as one in ten men admit to paying for sex, some will be sitting on the benches in Westminster and Holyrood. Is change possible?

The artist has taken his two-year project around the UK to the nation’s public spaces – but he has come to understand the one line that art cannot cross

The spy turned novelist arrived in search of new plots and left with an understanding that eludes some natives

Celebrating Roger Fry, the curator whose early exhibitions of post-impressionist art shocked the critics

Culture is increasingly filtered through social media – do we need critics any more?

Richard Drax’s family built their riches on Barbados’s most infamous plantation. He says it’s all just history

Newport County’s new kit brings back memories of the days when Spanish civil war refugees were welcomed by the Welsh city

A book that goes from Berlin to Bogotá on a hallucinatory walk through space, time, and memory

Daniel Craig’s 007 is dead, yet James Bond will return. Can Amazon revive him without ruining everything?

It seems ironic that the more deeply we want to see into the world, the bigger we have to make our instruments

Rosamund Pike delivers a quite astonishing performance as a Crown Court Judge wrestling with the legal system's shoddy handling of sexual assault cases

The singer left the most famous soul label in music history almost as quickly as she’d arrived

The former home secretary is caught in a bind after her husband quit Reform

The former Spectator editor's presence in the Times office is setting tongues wagging

A columnist at the paper jumped to MasterChef's defence - neglecting to mention his own awkward cancellation

The CBS presenter's departure comes days after he mocked a payout to Trump over a baseless libel claim

The former home secretary was rumoured to still covet the Tory leadership, but does he actually have ambitions to be mayor of London?

Spelling pronunciations in general are steadily becoming part of our linguistic landscape

Astronomer’s CEO and his head of HR have been shamed by the world. Does the punishment fit the crime?