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Europe’s reckoning

The continent is not yet ready for this new era of Trumpian geopolitics.

The right has a thriving new media ecosystem

And Kemi Badenoch is ready to use it.

Why Donald Trump embraced Andrew Tate

The American right has more in common with the misogynistic influencer than it pretends.

Volodymyr Zelensky’s war of wills

For those fighting for their country’s survival, the president’s defiance is prized above his diplomacy.

The politics beneath Zelensky’s suit

The row over the Ukrainian leader’s attire reveals a fault line between old- and new-world manners.

The fight for wages for housework

In the Seventies, one feminist movement campaigned to make domestic labour both visible and recompensed.

Inside the criminal justice process

Joanna Hardy-Susskind’s BBC series You Do Not Have to Say Anything is a close-up examination of one of the most…

Dante’s divine autofiction

How the Italian poet’s search for self-knowledge changed the course of literature.

Towards Zero: a hot mess of wonky accents and dubious furs

This vaguely dirty take on Agatha Christie isn’t shocking – at times, it’s laughable and a bit gross.

London’s season of sexed-up Shakespeare

New productions of Richard II and Much Ado About Nothing both burnish their texts with hot celebrity appeal – but…

The half-hearted return of Bergerac

This reboot of the classic detective series has lost all its drollness and sense of fun. C’est dommage!

Ash Sarkar: “I wasn’t smart enough to listen when I was younger”

The journalist and figurehead of the young Corbynite left on progressive politics in retreat and what the right got right.

How courts punish the victims of domestic abuse

Even after leaving their tormentors, those who have suffered at the hands of their partners face a brutal legal battle.

Xi and Putin vie to exploit the second Trump age

By voting for Russia and against Ukraine at the UN, the US president has shown which side of the war…

Eimear McBride Q&A: “I have a face only Lyubov Popova could love”

The novelist on American cinema and the dream of being an antiquarian bookseller.

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I attempt peak football-viewing: two live games at once

There were competing sets of replays and live-action excitements. My head swivelled so much I got dizzy.

I’ve nothing against boomers

It’s decades of policies prioritising wealth protection that are the source of resentment.

Britain’s embattled markets are an investment opportunity

The thing about business is that one person’s capsized sausage lorry is another person’s impromptu roadside barbecue.

Maternity leave isn’t “leave” – it’s hard work

Just as women need to be told about the realities of pregnancy, we should be honest about the next stage.