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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

Dilettante: When is it the right time to leave home?

When it comes to building the person you’re meant to become, there are no shortcuts

Geneviève de Galard, the reluctant Angel of Dien Bien Phu

The modest aristocrat was perhaps aware that she wasn’t the only woman who went the extra mile in the jungles of Indochina

Why learning language is child’s play

Children have an innate ability to learn foreign accents that is lost as they grow up. .. but is it always an advantage?

Trump and Putin, the accidental founders of modern Europe

If the continent wants to survive, it has to adopt new fresh and bold thinking

Alastair Campbell’s diary: The corrupt state 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

Labour’s prison plan: reform or retreat?

The prime minister’s reforms are crucial to achieving a more humane prison system. But, they’re only the start

Letters: Resounding silence greets Starmer’s reset

The new UK-EU deal has annoyed all the usual suspects, so Keir Starmer must be doing something right

Can Europe unplug from Trump’s America?

Our continent runs on US tech. With Trump in the White House, that no longer feels safe – and plans are taking shape for a way out

The eye-watering cost of Trump’s golf habit

Trump plays so often and is so obsessed with the game that his administration is now a golf course company with a government attached

If universities sink, then so will Starmer

Some Labour figures believe Britain has too many unis. But if they start failing, local economies – and Starmer’s re-election prospects – will go with them

Sebastião Salgado, Brazil’s poet of dignity and decay

Sometimes controversial, but never less than beautiful, the late Salgado leaves behind his images, and a legacy of conservation

Everyday Philosophy: Where is God when children are starving?

Atheists have a simple answer: it is evidence that God doesn’t exist, while believers say the gift of human free will brings with it the possibility of doing evil