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The right are undermining the institutions of liberal democracy. Progressives must change tack to stop them

With some Labour MPs in despair and others in revolt, the prime minister’s situation now looks terminal

The council was supposed to show how effective Nigel Farage’s party would be in power. Those watching from close quarters have instead been treated to a spectacle of chaos, spite and division

Reeling from the Panorama crisis and with the future of its news operation threatened by AI that tells us only what we want to hear, it’s vital to have a national broadcaster that tells us what we need to know

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If we reach the point where real friends seem retro, life will have lost all its meaning

It is ludicrous that, in little over a year, Keir Starmer has gone from landslide high to record low satisfaction ratings

Here in Taiwan, we like a good drink, especially one that reflects our love of freedom. If Beijing doesn’t like it, tough

Large parts of Bangladesh could one day be under water. The tough lives of the Manta river people show what the future may have in store as sea levels rise

It is a decade since the worst terror attack in French history left 132 dead. Where people died, Parisians now drink beer and smoke cigarettes

Mate is a difficult taste to get used to. But if you do try it, make sure you pretend to like it – or else

Organised crime gangs have started recruiting teenagers online to carry out hits on their rivals. There are a worrying number of willing assassins

For obvious reasons, understanding why the masses fell for the fanatics would be the much more worthwhile research today

Rachel Reeves has performed a U-turn on tax, but global lenders have not reacted badly. In fact, for the chancellor, there is now light at the end of the tunnel

The more Kim Leadbeater’s bill is subjected to close scrutiny, the worse it looks

The right are undermining the institutions of liberal democracy. Progressives must change tack to stop them

With some Labour MPs in despair and others in revolt, the prime minister’s situation now looks terminal

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The council was supposed to show how effective Nigel Farage’s party would be in power. Those watching from close quarters have instead been treated to a spectacle of chaos, spite and division

Thirty years after the Srebrenica massacre, the country remains suspended between beauty and grief

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

We have never paid so much tax and received so little in return. Worst of all, no one in Whitehall or Downing Street will ever take the blame

Reeling from the Panorama crisis and with the future of its news operation threatened by AI that tells us only what we want to hear, it’s vital to have a national broadcaster that tells us what we need to know

Thirteen years after the ‘punk prayer’ that saw her jailed, Maria Alyokhina’s new book details how the art collective continues the fight against Putin

A giant sculpture made from syrup tins gives Greece a new ally in the battle for the Parthenon marbles

A new documentary series turns the director into a Hollywood saint – and dulls some of his brilliance

Eugene Hütz and his band turn the Council of Europe into a carnival of defiance

Joyce Carol Oates’s brutal dismissal of the world’s richest man has enraged him – and reminded us of her own brilliance

Avant-garde writer Claire Louise Bennett’s new novel is an otherworldly hymn to minutiae

As was often the case before our villains became cartoonish, Watson’s flaws were complex

It may lack the innovation of Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest, but James Vanderbilt’s compelling film still makes for essential watching today

A pacy and ferocious player, disappointments weren’t uncommon throughout the Frenchman's life. Nor was depression

The Daily Mail and Telegraph have spent days attacking the corporation for lying, while being guilty of making up stories themselves

US investment firm RedBird was all set to finally buy the title – until the culture secretary said it would need to go through a public inquiry

A tweet from five years ago wasn't quite as obsequious as the GB News presenter's recent interview with the US president

The short-lived former prime minister has thrown her support behind the president's billion-dollar legal threat to the corporation

The Daily Express's senior political correspondent is back on social media, at work and on TV shortly after calling for a British-born MP to be deported

The village is said to be the only place along the English east coast where an enemy navy could approach within a few hundred yards

I'm always shocked to my core when I remember that only relatively few people consistently care about rape and sexual assault