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MAY 30. 2025

Ukraine braces for a cruel summer

As Putin’s summer offensive begins, insiders in Zelensky’s camp say they are facing the toughest time in years - with scary ramifications for Europe and the world

Matthew d’Ancona’s culture: Mountainhead is a whip-smart dystopian comedy

Jesse Armstrong’s return as writer and director of this feature-length drama has been giddily anticipated. And it does not disappoint

Everything you do is wrong

Progressive parties will never win votes by lecturing the electorate on how to live their lives

Donald Trump’s digital landgrab

His attempt to grab control of the internet is perhaps the biggest threat of all

Tom Cruise, the Nietzschean Superman

The Mission Impossible films show a man who bends the chaos of the world to his will and saves humanity. But what would Friedrich make of it all?

When Ireland and Luxembourg saved Britain from Liz Truss

The governor of the Bank of England has just given an eye-watering speech about Britain’s economic idiocy

Is this the real life?

The governor of the Bank of England has just given an eye-watering speech about Britain’s economic idiocy

MAY 29. 2025

The flaw in Starmer’s attack on reckless Farage

The prime minister says Reform’s leader can’t be trusted – but there’s one example he refuses to use

Robert Jenrick isn’t running for Tory leader. Honest

The hardline Brexiteer is demonstrating his suitability for high office by confronting people outside a Tube station and being rude about barber shops

Reform oppose net zero… unless it’s in their own backyard

A newly-elected mayor for Nigel Farage's party seems to have changed his view on green jobs very rapidly

MAY 28. 2025

Tommy Robinson: the empty extremist

He’s out of jail and will go back to being both a grifter and a demagogue. But men like Robinson allow us to ignore deeper truths about our society

Expressing the bleeding obvious

The insights of the Express's consultant psychiatrist are not exactly revealing

MAY 27. 2025

Here’s how Orbán could be ousted

Don't discount the role of Gergely Kovács, head of the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party , if Hungarians vote to remove Orbán from power next year

Alastair Campbell’s diary: The country desperate for EU membership

Unfortunately for Edi Rama, Albania’s prime minister, the country's place in the EU will be secured not by optics, but by its democratic credentials and right now, those are being tested