Europe is back

Mike Johnson’s message to Britain: remain pure and we’ll love you

The US House speaker addressed parliament on the 250th anniversary of his country’s independence

A hurt Europe wonders what to do next

Is Donald Trump a transition or a disruption?

In Cambridgeshire, a straw bear burns to the ground

Amid the Fenland rain, the Whittlesea Bear Festival and its Morris dancers furrow worthily on

Robert Jenrick’s category error

Plus: big men at Davos, and the death of the intermission

On patrol with Ice-spotters in Minneapolis

There is no end in sight to American carnage

Letter of the week: Labour’s starting point

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Inside the Labour factions pressuring Starmer to rejoin Europe

Caught between Donald Trump and his own party, the Prime Minister faces a moment of truth

Britain’s housebuilding crisis on my block

Building work on the estate I live in was supposed to take two years – it’s now in its…

Trump has become the West’s Mad King

The president sees no difference between his whims and the power of the American empire

Europe has a lot to learn from Mark Carney

Europe must learn that it is time to reckon with what the US has become

Europe must break from America

Warnings about the end of the postwar world are common sense, not alarmism

Claudia Winkleman is what women want to be

What is it about The Traitors host that makes her a hero to so many?

Islam is the engine of world history

The religion may have transformed every corner of the globe, but it was also radically changed in the process

Chess is fiction’s favourite metaphor

From Nabokov to Ballard, games like chess have enticed writers. But how will the advent of AI affect the…

Why are we so obsessed with Japan?

A national culture built upon civility and respect offers an alternative to the self-absorption of the West

The world’s most powerful literary critic is on TikTok

Jack Edwards shapes the online world’s reading habits from BookTok. But can he handle his success?

The NS Poem: The Present Life on Earth

A new poem by Jack Nicholls

Park Chan-wook couldn’t save No Other Choice

A desperate search for employment turns violent in the auteur’s dark, satirical corporate takedown

Cats are better than dogs – and much better than David Baddiel

Cats are a rich subject for philosophers. They have been failed by this new programme

Madison Beer is a copy-paste pop star

Her new album, Locket, is perfect pop music – which is part of the problem

What it’s like to be played by Claire Foy

I said “Hello, film Dad” to Brendan Gleeson in a wobbly voice, and gave him a huge hug

How to eat like a Roman emperor

Our politics are stuck in the ancient past. Thankfully our food isn’t

On Hampstead Heath and Southern Railway, I am marooned

I was part of a social experiment in which people have to get to Brighton at weekends without using…

Beware the hubris of doctors

Peering into Alan’s ear, I failed to spot the reason for his depression

Beer and Sandwiches: At the Anchor in Digbeth

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October 1983: Ronald Reagan invades Grenada and deposes its revolutionary leader – without consulting Britain