Opinion

I was there when Chirac asked for money that should have gone to Lebanon’s citizens. Now Macron is struggling to save the country from destruction

A misjudged call for the government’s resignation and a string of lame jokes made for another poor performance from the Tory leader

While Keir Starmer continues to pretend that a worthwhile deal can be done without concessions or going back to the single market, this role is a non-starter

Many languages, including English, contain loan words ‘borrowed’ from other languages. But there is one notable exception – Icelandic

An adventurous romantic life lent almost a Zelig-like quality to the writer, constantly drawing her towards the centre of events

The president-elect’s embrace of comedians, podcasters and combat sports stars is a lesson for hectoring liberals

The inheritance tax debate is a little more nuanced than you will read on social media

The forgotten Scottish philosopher’s legacy resurfaced last week when his historic cello was played for the first time in 220 years

Physicists are searching for evidence of the existence of particles known as gravitons – to determine if gravity is a ‘quantum’ affair

Across the world, a new coalition is growing – of exhausted people on all sides who are gunning for Scholz, Macron... and Starmer

In paying their tributes, many people are still underestimating the former deputy prime minister

That we have seemingly managed to beat Elon Musk should be cause for celebration. Why, then, do I have this uneasiness about it?

The sneaky, the snobbish and the snide. The spiteful, the shameless and the downright sinister. They are all shits – and all here in the New European’s annual rundown of 50 people the UK could definitely do without

People who were born during the postwar ‘baby boom’ are sick of being tarred with the same brush. One size does not fit all

Following a rise in politically motivated sentences after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, prisoners in Russia and Belarus have come to rely on letters from strangers

The country has an obsession with cleanliness but there are some kinks in its food waste system that need to be ironed out

If Umbria is hailed as the heart of Italy, then its capital, Perugia, is the heart of all things chocolatey

Despite the new globalised name, speculoos, thankfully, still taste like home

There are few things we like better than stories about good people who turned out to be less so

The EU’s new General Product Safety Regulation system launches on December 13, and will make it even harder for UK firms exporting to Europe

Once a painter of charming small-town scenes, Antonio Calderara radically departed into the abstract. But was this shift as sudden, or surprising, as it seems?

We cannot finesse our way out of the problem that the American people have swung isolationist

Calls for “regime-change” from within Guardian Media Group over newspaper sale

The former German chancellor has played it smart again by shrouding her memoirs in secrecy ahead of their release

The man who said the People’s Vote was a betrayal now wants another UK-wide poll, four months after the last one

Giving frozen Russian assets to Ukraine would save Zelensky and send a defiant message to Trump

Legalising cannabis seems an open goal for a government determined to raise cash for public services, ensure social justice and improve public health

The 643 villagers of Oradour-sur-Glane were wiped out by the Nazis. Untouched by order of de Gaulle, the place where they lived and died is now a shrine

For Indochine and The Cure, two of the greatest bands associated with France and Britain respectively, pessimism is their signature sound

America has become a paranoid nation that wants to insulate itself from the world and I underestimated this