Opinion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

Newly super-rich Paris FC face Paris St Germain in France’s top flight for the first time in nearly 50 years. But can the city support two teams?

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

Maduro was a foul dictator. But what happens next could be as bad - or worse

Putin and Trump want to destroy liberal democracy. Only Europe now stands in their way. Can the continent hold out against the twin threats from east and west?

Promises to ourselves have a superficially similar structure to promises to other people – but with a kind of double lock

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Crime, corruption and cruelty show how leaders like Trump and Bukele exploit power, and why they must be stopped

To survive the club culture of Buenos Aires, you need stamina and a willingness to let go of British ideas about bedtime

Zohran Mamdani didn’t just win an election – his and Rama Duwaji’s story mirrors the city they now represent

Behind locked doors in museums and archaeological sites, priceless works gather dust while the world waits outside

With a media landscape tightly controlled by Aleksandar Vučić’s ruling party, students are keeping the fight for democracy alive in Belgrade

She may be a global superstar, but in her homecoming to Cali, it was Grupo Niche and the city’s centuries-old salsa culture that stole the show

Armed only with pistols and faced with an overwhelming number of Hamas attackers, Remo El-Hozayel rescued hundreds from the Nova Festival massacre

While Britain struggles to open new factories, Beijing is looking to a future of flying cars. How can Europe emulate what its rival intends, and do it better?

If 2026 is to improve on 2025, the UK must start behaving like a serious country at long last

The coming year will be full of intrigue, but the aftermath of the local elections will be the moment Labour rebels will try to oust the PM. Who can replace him?

As his poll ratings tank ahead of November’s midterms, splits are emerging in his MAGA movement. Can the Democrats unite and capitalise?

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

Yes his tweets were disgusting, possibly criminal, yet it should not be possible for politicians to revoke someone’s national identity just because they dislike their views