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Trump’s own Afghan scandal
The country’s ‘Freedom Pilots’ flew alongside American colleagues before being given refuge in the US when the Taliban returned. Now the MAGA regime wants to send them home – to what fate?
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Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news
Meet Claude, the $14bn AI that thinks it wears a tie
Artificial intelligence makes more and more of our decisions. But two examples show it remains untrustworthy – and sometimes downright bizarre
The parallel geography of violence in Mexico
In Sinaloa, the threat of death and chaos hangs in the air as the brutal cartel war shows little sign of abating
Letter of the week: Why Starmer must be tougher with the media
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Does everything come down to Luck?
There is a difference between riding your luck and being lucky, just ask Leah Williamson and the Lionesses
Sandie Peggie and the dangers of gender groupthink
A female nurse in Scotland became the focus of a witch hunt that shows how Britain’s institutions have become overcome by an elite ideology
My date with Ghislaine Maxwell
If you had said to me then she might end up attached to a powerful man, able to build and exploit connections wherever he found them, I could well have seen how it may happen
Mussolini’s secret bunker
Beneath the peak of Monte Soratte near Rome is a vast, eerie tunnel complex – an underground graveyard of the German troops who died there
The dwindling town of Srebrenica
Thirty years on, the genocide is remembered annually, but locals feel forgotten and struggle with ongoing division
Farage’s firestarter politics
A year after riots swept Britain, Reform’s leader and his supporters are warning of future unrest unless their policies are followed. The message is a threat wrapped in respectability
In Germany, priests are embracing prostitutes
A festival in Leipzig marks half a century since sex workers and priests stood together in solidarity against police violence
War in the quiet hours
Russia has intensified its aerial assault on Kyiv. One night may pass in relative calm, giving a fragile sense of normality. The next, destruction starts again
Summer holidays, Germany’s hot topic
To avoid chaos, and in true German style, the country’s schools break-up for summer at different times
The EU was right to let Trump start a trade war with himself
The president thinks tariffs make America stronger. The EU knows better – and walked away from a fight not worth having
Why younger voters don’t want the vote
The government wants to extend the franchise to 16 and 17-year olds. But it’s a move that could backfire
Gary Lineker: ‘I’m not antisemitic. I’m anti the killing of children’
In an exclusive interview, Gary Lineker talks to Matt Kelly about the war in Gaza, his exit from the BBC, and life as a podcasting media mogul
The quiet road to an ugly Britain
Farage is winning by whipping up anger and then claiming to be the only one who can quell it. It’s time Starmer ‘hugs the cactus’ by confronting the Reform leader’s claims – and his supporters
The Lionesses are the England I believe in
This summer has shown us two visions of the country. Only one deserves to win
The drone and the death of compromise
The first unmanned flying weapon was launched over a century ago – the full implications of that flight are only now being understood
Lies, damned lies and Nigel Farage
He is on TV and social media spreading outright disinformation. It seems no one can do anything about it
Corbyn’s new party will put Farage in No 10
People are being dragged towards a deeply flawed new political project that will act as a wrecking ball for the Labour Party
We need 50 India trade deals to make up for Brexit
The Brexiteers’ dream trade deal is finally done – but government hype doesn’t match the facts
GB News, Brexit and two obscure think tanks
The hard right channel and the ecosystem which feeds it are behaving like the Japanese soldier who held out for nearly 29 years after the war ended
Brigitte Macron versus a far right fantasist
Conspiracy theorist Candace Owens claims that France’s first lady was born a man. Now the president and his wife will face her in court
This is Starmer’s worst mistake so far
He enjoys attacking the left of his party, but the PM’s reversal on planning laws sets him up for a confrontation with his loyalists
My diary from Brixton prison
The problem with Britain’s justice system is that incarceration is more than a punishment – it destroys lives
We’re missing the bigger picture behind Sycamore Gap
If its value was that it was greatly appreciated by so many people, do the individual trees being felled largely unseen in Brazilian rainforests count for less?
Nigel Farage, judge dreadful
Nigel Farage’s Trumpian ‘crackdown on crime’ is farcical, unworkable… and deeply, deeply dangerous
Rachel Reeves’s very bad idea
The post-2008 financial rules are there for a very good reason. Taking them apart would give our Gordon Gekkos free rein
Letter of the week: How can we make European leaders speak up on Gaza?
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The British media are wrong – Germany is not Trumpified
The constitutional court remains untouched by chaos and is still the country’s most trusted institution
Where have all the migrants gone?
Trump’s policies have reduced the desperate stream of people trying to reach the US through Central America to a trickle
Working with gold in India has lost its glister
Without structural support, the country’s living tradition of artisanal goldwork teeters on the edge of extinction
The best hospital in the world
If more Italian hospitals were made as welcoming as the Rizzoli, patients would be less scared to go inside in search of help
Arresting an Argentinian icon
In accelerating the charges laid against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Javier Milei created a new national myth
Kemi Badenoch’s party just got slightly less terrible
It’s our moral duty to root for the reshuffled Tories – and we need them to take on Farage’s Reform
Feargal Sharkey is right. The water shake-up is a drop in the ocean
Nationalisation is the way out of this crisis – but politicians aren’t brave enough to do it
Stephen Colbert and a series of unfortunate coincidences
The CBS presenter’s departure comes days after he mocked a payout to Trump over a baseless libel claim
How to beat Putin
Europe could save Ukraine and defeat a dictator by shutting down Russia’s shadow fleet and scaling up its own defence production. But will wary voters accept rising tension as the price of peace?
What a big scandal says about small Britain
The Afghan leak cover-up is symptomatic of a crumbling, outmoded state where self-preservation trumps honour
It was the best time in history to be Polish
And then along came a new, hard-right conservative president – a man with no answers to the country’s problems
We are becoming more European
A new report shows that Britain is aligning itself with more European rules and standards – but there are two exceptions
Britain’s economy faces another 1920s-style meltdown
When the UK economy stalled back in the 1920s, it changed the shape of British politics. A century later, it might be happening again
Keir Starmer: the vindictive captain of a gloomy ship
The PM has a huge majority and is still relatively new to No10 – so why has he just thrown four of his MPs overboard?
She was murdered, but couldn’t be silenced
Chechen human rights investigator Natalia Estemirova defied Russia – and was killed. Now her daughter is keeping her fight alive
Does the Museum of Brexit actually exist?
A recent spurt of posts by the long-dormant project doesn’t mask the fact that little progress has been made in eight years
Scandal as UK police threaten Palestinian protesters
Video shows how Yvette Cooper’s proscription order against Palestine Action has given licence for thought crime interrogations by cops
Afghan data leak: one part of a great betrayal
The Afghans who served with western forces have been let down by ignorant politicians with no idea who the Taliban truly are