Opinion

A tainted messenger delivers the truth that Starmer still can’t bring himself to say

The director of the first lady’s troubled new film was the centre of serious accusations of sexual assault

Engineers warned but managers pushed on and a preventable disaster unfolded live on the world’s TV screens

This by-election was supposed to be a referendum on Starmer - but it could turn into one on Reform’s divisive populist

The Orange Man Boy’s speech was so full of lies that I had to do something. But as a former US vice president told me, it’s probably not the best way to deal with him

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If you’re looking for the age-group that’s become dangerously radicalised, and has spread disinformation and populist hate online, the culprit is not the under-16s. It’s their grandparents

A strange alliance has sprung up between indigenous New Zealand nationalists and the US and US hard right. But they both believe in the same, very dangerous idea

A civil war has been raging in the country for three years. But at the shoreline, looking at the clear blue water, the war seemed to fade. For a moment

The Mercosur trade agreement has been 25 years in the making and would boost growth - but it’s been kicked in the long grass

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

One guilty purchase was all it took for the algorithm to start stalking me

The veteran presenter of the BBC Radio 4 show, which I co-created, is a tough act to follow, but Misha Glenny seems equal to the task

Predator: Badlands and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy prove that some franchises improve when they stop pandering to old fans

A lost duck dish is one of the reasons Iraqis are flocking to east London restaurant Logma

A seven-million-year-old fossil continues to complicate the story of when, and how, humans first walked on two legs

Exhibitions in London and Paris show a big-time director whose remarkable attention to detail comes from thinking small

Belgian idealist Paul Otlet imagined a global information network that would unite humanity. How right – and wrong – he was

Malik Al Nasir’s search for his roots began with a racist jam mascot - and ended with him tracing his heritage to both sides of a brutal trade

MAGA wants to co-opt the military alliance for its own ends. But Britain can’t push back until it spends more on defence

The PM had no choice but to block a leadership rival - and Greater Manchester’s mayor must share the blame

Gustav Trippe’s family say his letters show his doubts about the regime - and that he was murdered for writing them

A celebrity feud reminds us that there are bitter feuds in every family. And I should know…

And when the New START nuclear weapons treaty expires in early February, that’s exactly what he’s going to get

Sophie Sandberg, gender justice activist and founder of CatCalls of NYC, is fighting back against street harassment – one piece of chalk at a time

The threats facing Britain cannot be met alone. They demand European cooperation at the deepest level

The country held out for years against the violence and the gangs. And then along came cocaine

In comparison to Macron, Carney and Newsom, Trump and his team of sycophants looked out of touch, cringe-worthy – like yesterday’s men

The Oscar-nominated star of Marty Supreme is either unbearably self-confident — or quietly hilarious

In a remarkable report for The New World, the award-winning podcaster and broadcaster joins a deportation plane-spotter to watch Trump’s shock troops kick ordinary people out of the US

Reform’s leader made a fool of himself at Davos while Brexit critic Mark Carney showed Keir Starmer that closer EU ties are the only way forward