Toxic ties

Easily dismissed as a diminutive thug, the unfortunate reality is that he understands perfectly the role he has to play in propagating hateful racist nationalism in a country increasingly receptive to his message

Drug tycoon Bashir Noorzai was seized and jailed for life by the US. Yet somehow he is free - and has reinvented himself as gatekeeper to Afghanistan’s trillion-dollar rare earth treasure trove

One man set up an email address for the son of God. What kind of emails does He receive?

Seventy years after his fatal crash, a pilgrimage to the place where an actor died and a legend was born

In today's world, media doesn't need AI - it needs real journalists

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Right now, Xi Jinping is letting Trump do all the soft power heavy lifting for him

Taiwan's convenience culture isn't going anywhere. When it's become a way of life, how could it?

Fentanyl, the synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin, is posing a health crisis in the US. But the Trump administration are happy to pretend it isn't happening

Vladimir Putin claimed the city was Russian in 2023, but staking the claim doesn’t make it so

The country’s rentrée – the return from summer holidays – is in progress… and so are political blackmail, mass protests, corruption and the probable collapse of the government

The fashion giant put its models on the Milan runway in slippers that looked eerily Kohlapuris. Could the 800-year-old tradition finally receive recognition?

Forget Prime or HBO, Germans are fixated by the case unfolding live in a high-security Hamburg courtroom usually reserved for terrorism cases

Britain is drowning in hate. We can’t let Farage remake us into a truly nasty nation

Easily dismissed as a diminutive thug, the unfortunate reality is that he understands perfectly the role he has to play in propagating hateful racist nationalism in a country increasingly receptive to his message

Drug tycoon Bashir Noorzai was seized and jailed for life by the US. Yet somehow he is free - and has reinvented himself as gatekeeper to Afghanistan’s trillion-dollar rare earth treasure trove

One man set up an email address for the son of God. What kind of emails does He receive?

Seventy years after his fatal crash, a pilgrimage to the place where an actor died and a legend was born

For decades, US survivalists have warned about a future with troops on the street and plain-clothes goons disappearing the White House’s enemies. Now it’s all happening under Trump, they are silent

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

Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice is a masterfully savage comedy of murder and capitalist ruin

Formed at the height of punk and revered by fans like Kurt Cobain, the Raincoats are the band that refused to die

A new exhibition charts humanity’s long, losing battle – there’s either too much or too little, and it’s always in the wrong place

One design house used an AI model for its latest campaign. The photographer Rankin says everyone’s at it

A book that collects the dreams of Germans – Jews and gentiles alike – during the 1930s

The controversial band defied local critics and pro-Israeli protestors at a riotous gig in Paris

As his own star rises, global noir writer Nicolás Obregón is raging at the state of the world

Four generations of women inhabit a landscape of wolves, fascists and devils in the Catalan writer’s haunting novel

Some of the best science fiction is not so much about dreaming up futuristic technologies but imagining the kinds of societies they will engender

Aronofsky can miss the mark when he over-conceptualises. But this very entertaining gangland caper is infectious

For pretty much his entire life, Mendes was either in style or on the verge of being back in vogue, such is the world’s enduring love of Brazilian music

The Sun claimed the late Queen backed leaving the EU. Now, nine years later, its then editor has been forced to change his tune

The same columnists who rushed to praise the This Morning presenter's anti-migrant views were those who demanded Gary Lineker's sacking

The party selected Sharon Carby as its candidate for mayor of Croydon, despite her being dead

The academic turned hard right pundit penned a lengthy missive to Elon Musk after he turned on his hero Nigel Farage - but just got ignored

The UAE-based campaigner has called for a ban on speaking in foreign languages at public protests

The one French word my Mum knew was largesse, which can be translated into English as “generosity”. But why did she, and other country children of her generation?

I once fled my flat at every opportunity - but oil paints have taught me about the joy of being indoors

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