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A year after his death, the Twin Peaks director is universally loved. Would this Don of darkness really be happy about that?

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I thought I’d have to explain why I wanted it printed - instead, the shop owner gave me a discount

The high street temple of face gems and bad decisions gave us something TikTok never could: the freedom to get it wrong

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 government’s business rates u-turn has brought temporary relief, but long-term trends suggest thousands more locals - especially in rural areas - will go

Farage and Badenoch’s attacks on a weakened PM underline that he’s not the messenger to deliver a customs union or even a second referendum

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?

The shooting dead of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis is the fault of Trump, Noem, and the bullshit conspiratorial ecosystem they’ve built around themselves

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

In 1968, a US bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashed in Greenland. That time the bombs didn’t detonate and there was no catastrophe. But the nation now faces a new US threat and the outcome could be much worse

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’

I'm an admirer of John Stuart Mill, David Hume and Diogenes the Cynic. The problem is, I cannot endorse any one of them without reservation

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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?

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

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