Opinion

Two films about unfolding tragedy shock the Locarno Film Festival

His desperation to follow in Barack Obama’s footsteps deepens day by day, unsolved war by unsolved war

Wuppertal, in western Germany, is famous for having the world’s oldest suspension railway – with one very large passenger

A crime writer’s memoir goes from New Jersey to Venice via Iran and LA – and features an apology to her most famous character

A new film captures the awkward, brittle reality of late-life male companionship

Nuclear power may be essential for a future lunar base, but Nasa’s latest announcement looks more like a flag-planting contest than a serious mission plan

O’Connell campaigned against the oppression of not only Catholics, but slaves, European Jews and indeed anyone. Today, Ireland could do with him back

Britta Marakatt-Labba’s embroideries transform the herdspeople’s history into a textile protest poem

It’s a trivia quiz ‘fact’ that the game began as an anti-capitalist critique.. but the truth is even stranger than that

As criticism grows, prime minister Robert Fico’s far-fetched tirades are looking increasingly desperate

Drug tycoon Bashir Noorzai was seized and jailed for life by the US. Yet somehow he is free - and has reinvented himself as gatekeeper to Afghanistan’s trillion-dollar rare earth treasure trove

Book festivals, ragebait journalism and city boys in the country get eviscerated in Natasha Brown’s brilliant Universality

Anti-vaccine lies mean the disease is now spreading in Britain, the US and around the world. And this is just the start

The director has given another self-aggrandising interview. He should be making better films instead

There’s only one way to stand up to superpowers such as the US and China, and to the authoritarian bullies like Putin

The site has become an actively malignant force, and the playground of racists and fascists. How can politicians still justify posting on the platform?

The party planned a modest £1.7 million deficit for its election-year campaign. Instead, it blew through more than double that

Ketamine use is spreading in Britain and the government has no plan to deal with it

The German discount retailers are piling pressure on Asda and Morrisons. But they will find Tesco and Sainsbury tougher to beat

Speeding up the UK/EU reset agreement could help cut food prices - and put Farage on shaky ground

Raising the state pension age assumes people can walk into new jobs in their sixties. It’s not as easy as that

By factoring extremist unrest into his judgment, a British judge has signalled that disorder works

Elon Musk’s DOGE tried to cut wasteful US government spending, but his car company would benefit from the same plan. First target: his own pay packet

Fuelled by the far right and the media and endorsed by other politicians who should know better, Islamophobia is becoming a new national pastime

Donald Trump says his interventions have brought Ukraine and Russia close to peace. So why does it feel further away than last week?

He is a criminal, and has led Israel to commit criminal acts. If he does not stand trial, then international law will be shown as worthless

Our conversation felt like a scroll through far right Facebook – but reminded me that we’ve got to keep talking to each other

‘Everyone will know where you stand’ promises the far right party, which is selling Farage signed shirts for £100

Putin’s influence is spreading in Slovakia. The country is now a test case for the confrontation between Russian fascism and western democracies

Ideologues don’t like science because it confronts them with truths they can’t dismiss. Donald Trump seems to think he has a workaround

‘Scarcity mindset’ marketing made the collectable dolls a Gen Z cult, but ubiquity will gradually erode Labubus’ power

A so-called national crisis isn’t being driven by migrant boats – but by a cynical political class that would rather feed fears than fix anything