Iran: Tyranny on the Ropes

Keir Starmer wants Britain to get closer to the EU. The war in Ukraine and Trump’s military posturing put European security at the heart of that realignment

The nation has changed out of all recognition since the Shah was deposed in 1979. There is now only one way that the country can enter the modern world – the state must crack

A president without decency or any interest in policy runs America like a TV show: gripping its audience with shocks, suspense and relentless action

Westminster journalists are having a tantrum over No 10 briefings. But the real problems are their right wing bias and focus on gossip over policy

Legislation or an unexpected saviour could help – but the tech giants will try to crush them

Keir Starmer wants Britain to get closer to the EU. The war in Ukraine and Trump’s military posturing put European security at the heart of that realignment

Maduro may be in a US prison, but a mob of intelligence officers and paramilitaries are setting up roadblocks and dragging victims off the streets to make sure people understand – his political project still holds power

Gerry Gable, the dedicated, controversial founder of Searchlight magazine, had infiltrators and spies on his books in an intelligence war against racism

X has been terminally polluted by Elon Musk to the point of making us nauseous

The uncertainty of the plague years are back in the form of the US president, and we are left wondering who wants to help us

Rugby internationals in England sell tens of thousands of tickets, but almost no one follows the game at club level. What’s going on?

Online trolls who claimed the French president’s wife was secretly a man, have been convicted in a Paris court. Does that mean misgendering someone – including trans people – now means jail time?

Locals are blaming Kai Wegner for poor service after he crossed the line by taking on his girlfriend while 45,000 homes were without power

A Croatian rock singer is using Nazi salutes to gee up his crowd. Even worse, the prime minister is apparently a fan

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The nation has changed out of all recognition since the Shah was deposed in 1979. There is now only one way that the country can enter the modern world – the state must crack

A president without decency or any interest in policy runs America like a TV show: gripping its audience with shocks, suspense and relentless action

Westminster journalists are having a tantrum over No 10 briefings. But the real problems are their right wing bias and focus on gossip over policy

The winter fuel mess, the farm inheritance tax u-turn and now the debacle over pubs: why can’t this government plan in advance?

It's wildly overvalued, politically extreme and puts Trump first – but somehow has £1bn of deals to run Britain's tech infrastructure

From Saturday Night Live to Star Wars, the 1970s reinvented Japan’s warrior elite – now the subject of a major exhibition – as pop mythology

Some AI programmes will tell you to back off, while others are more welcoming. But when it comes down to it, chatbots offer all the human warmth of the speaking clock

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

Mysteries, misdiagnoses and miracles marked the extraordinary life of New Zealand’s greatest writer. Yet she remains oddly undercelebrated in her own land

Andy West, the man who inspired the hit new drama, on nature, change and the ‘terrible, dehumanising’ life behind bars

Brazil’s Inhotim Institute, a vast open-air museum, is part botanical garden, part moral maze

From the Beckhams to Eddie Murphy and Charlie Sheen, they promise truth but deliver reputation-laundering dressed up as intimacy

His disappointing Netflix special Mortality jabs at straw men and suggests a comedian slipping out of touch

Being constantly reachable fuels our self-importance. But there is a better way

The American-Asian artist’s brutal killing ended a life of huge promise – but her voice could not be silenced

Newly super-rich Paris FC face Paris St Germain in France’s top flight for the first time in nearly 50 years. But can the city support two teams?

An unusually early flu season was mistaken for an unusually severe one – raising questions about how risk is communicated and how unprepared the NHS remains

There is not a shred of sentimentality in Chloé Zhao’s magnificent adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel. This is where its brilliance lies

In 1961, before the first human reached space, a chimpanzee was strapped into a rocket and sent into the unknown

A number of figures on the right are claiming to support women and children while throwing their weight behind Elon Musk’s X and ICE agents

The short-lived former chancellor has a history of terrible political judgment

The papers say it was due to a hotel hosting migrants next door. But locals and campaigners say it was more to a series of far right protests

The party held a showpiece rally at a London conference centre but it only half sold out. Might it be because of how it talks about the capital?

The Reform pair attacked Keir Starmer over accepting freebies – but were happy to take tickets to sporting events themselves

Some familiar words we use in everyday English carry surprising traces of Malay, a language spoken widely across south-east Asia

A whole load of people fell for AI-based scams over the Xmas and New Year period. I really thought the future was meant to be better than this