The Battle for Britain

Trump’s raid on Caracas gives the US control of Venezuelan oil, and shows that America is now a nation that acts without restraint. The lessons for Britain, and Europe, could not be any clearer

The social contract must be revitalised or populists will replace it with something much worse. That means citizenship should involve allegiance to a shared way of life

MAGA’s youth wing gathered for a weekend-long event in Arizona. Proceedings were overshadowed by arguments over a notorious neo-Nazi

Chloé Zhao’s film is deeply felt and beautifully made – but misses the essence of what made the playwright so great

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The president of Moldova saw off a vicious campaign from Russia by educating the public about the threat and mobilising them against it. Would we do the same here?

Living so close to a huge unfriendly neighbour has made our politics intense – but it has also done the same for our music culture

When it’s freezing and dark, there’s only one thing Icelanders want to do – take all their clothes off and jump in an outdoor pool

Elephants have been trampling and eating crops planted by Kenyan farmers, and gamekeepers have been looking for a solution. Then someone noticed that elephants don’t like bees

The challenge for my country is to get rid of the networks of patronage and power that are all controlled by the old. We need to become a country of the young

The booty went down in a shipwreck over 300 years ago. Now comes the tricky question of ownership

Some Germans revel in a state of emergency during the new year’s celebrations. Should their lawlessness restrict responsible fireworks enthusiasts’ fun?

Trump’s raid on Caracas gives the US control of Venezuelan oil, and shows that America is now a nation that acts without restraint. The lessons for Britain, and Europe, could not be any clearer

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

The current system attracts incompetent chancers. The answer is a Westminster that’s smaller and better rewarded

The social contract must be revitalised or populists will replace it with something much worse. That means citizenship should involve allegiance to a shared way of life

The UAE is attracting right wing Brits who mock Britain’s supposed decline while ignoring their hosts’ repression

Grok is churning out sexual images on an industrial scale – some of teenage girls – and pleading free speech. If the UK and Europe don’t act now, they never will

It predicts the universe with eerie precision, yet not even Nobel laureates can agree on how to interpret it

MAGA’s youth wing gathered for a weekend-long event in Arizona. Proceedings were overshadowed by arguments over a notorious neo-Nazi

The great crime writer, who died 50 years ago, may have looked in later life like Miss Marple – but in her youth she was an intrepid world traveller with a passion for surfing

As bombs fall and homes are destroyed, the country’s vinyl collectors risk everything to save the music that tells their life stories

A sleepy Alpine mountain retreat offered shelter for surrealists, LSD prophets and weary hippies

Not even Minnie Driver can save a misfiring move to Rome for a series optimised for social media

Chloé Zhao’s film is deeply felt and beautifully made – but misses the essence of what made the playwright so great

The veteran artist’s World on Fire Timeline maps a century of crisis and resistance

It is the second most-spoken first language in the world, and opens doors across continents and careers – yet British schools still insist on teaching French

Millions of children around the world use the platform for games. But the evidence is beginning to reveal a much darker side to Roblox

Lab-grown gametes could transform fertility treatment – but biology is proving far harder to hack than technology

Lifelong devotees of John le Carré need not worry, the saga of Jonathan Pine is in safe hands with screenwriter David Farr

She was always adamant that she had done nothing heroic; that helping other people should be considered normal, not exceptional

The US president is said to have opposed María Corina Machado after she received the Nobel Peace Prize he coveted so much

The Reform leader’s new-found passion for digital currencies just happens to follow a large-scale investor backing his party

Britain’s botched departure from the European Union is to join a litany of flops including the Titanic, Sinclair C5 and The Body Shop

The Tory peer pontificated on unworthy recipients of new year’s honours from his seat-for-life in the House of Lords

The regulator has been inundated with complaints about the channel’s lie-strewn interview with Donald Trump

How biology, physics and geography came to define the structure and range of the human voice

It ought to be possible to dabble in guilty pleasures without ruining our lives in the process. But Brits don’t seem to know the meaning of ‘moderation’