Much more needs to be done to repair the damage of Brexit, but this is a welcome step in the right direction, argues the Director of the Independent Commission on UK-EU Relations
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As Germany rearms, Patrick Howse visits the eastern state of Saxony, where the country's cultural elite are now also taking on Putin
A few weeks ago the historian Perry Anderson published an essay “Regime Change in the West?” in the London Review of Books. Like many of Anderson’s essays this is a wide-ranging splurge full of bon mots and *apercus” delivered from some quasi-Olympian height. My attention was caught, though, by the following couple of sentences which […]
Nicole Burgund reports from inside one of Europe's most important protests
Friends and opponents of the far-right French politician need to be honest about what her barring from the next Presidential election is really about, argues Olly Haynes
In his latest dispatch from Kyiv, Chris York has tales of occupied territories, tariffs, stalled talks – and storks!
In his latest dispatch, Chris York reports on overnight attacks on Kyiv, Trump's diplomacy and the latest drone and media manoeuvres
Defending Ukraine without the US will be complex, costly and politically challenging - but there is simply no alternative, argues Jacob Öberg
If Europeans come from Venus, Peter Jukes observes, it’s only because they are aware (unlike Elon Musk) of the bleak devastation of Mars
Hardeep Matharu dissects what the now infamous Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky revealed about the American President’s approach – and speaks to political scientist Brian Klaas about why his ‘alternative realities’ don’t stack up against real-world complexities