Opinion

Hack Noa Hoffman failed to call out Reform’s dodgy swan story

Huge numbers of Venezuelans have fled into Guyana to escape inflation and corruption. But if the US attacks, Caracas will not fold. Maduro has too much to lose

As visitors soak up high art and cheap beer, a billionaire populist chameleon and his far right outriders cronies are ready to turn the Czech Republic upside down

Dominic Fritz came to Timisoara as a volunteer and ended up running the city that toppled Ceaușescu. Now he’s fighting the far right and the weight of history

A lot of those ranting MAGA Twitter accounts aren’t based in the US - but the reason for that isn’t what you think

An account of the BBC Bashir scandal shows it could only have happened to a family mired in paranoid plotting

The reduction of female empowerment to a pink coloured, ditsy sports channel was not only a stunningly poor idea, but also grossly insulting

Former Jewish Chronicle editor Stephen Pollard seems to have changed his tune despite revelations about Reform’s leader

Nick Thomas-Symonds, minister for EU negotiations, points the way to a showdown that would make Farage squirm

Would a person from an ethnic minority trust Nigel Farage in power? So long as the answer remains “no”, Farage and the Reform party are unfit for office

What they couldn’t take they tried the destroy, using statues for target practice - they even shot all the mummies

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

The chancellor recognises the power of getting children to read - now she must convince the parents

The chancellor used political tricks to deliver a softer budget than expected - but she is storing up economic pain

A government doesn’t get many chances to make real change. Today was one of those opportunities - the chancellor missed it

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I look at the way millions and millions of people use generative AI and it makes my brain want to shrivel and hide

There is no reason to suppose that we learn anything significant from the genetic data about what made the dictator the man he was

They cause groans and snobbishness – but in Paris, the impulse to photograph oneself by Monet’s Water Lilies becomes a gesture of devotion

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If machines do all the work, there are no jobs left and no one earns any money, Marx might be proved right after all

We have become too accustomed to figures like Donald Trump, who see misinformation as a weapon rather than an issue

Gill’s isn’t an isolated case, but a symptom of Europe-wide corruption and demagoguery

Cameras and digital tracking make our lives more convenient – but at what cost?

Putin’s friend and emissary has manipulated Steve Witkoff to the point where the US special ambassador is known as “Dim Philby”. And Ukraine is paying the price

The Daily Mail group backs authoritarian views. The idea that they’re better buyers than an overseas investor is nonsensical

For decades, the reporting of race and ethnicity has been banned unless strictly relevant to the story. All of a sudden that’s changed. Why?

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

After years of scary AI movies, the tech is now portrayed as heroic – just as the industry’s humans come into its sights

Fake praise, fake therapy and fake boyfriends are warping a generation’s mental health

The writer coined the word ‘enshittification’ to describe how useful tech inevitably gets worse. Now he’s turning his sights on AI