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JULY 29. 2025

Letter of the week: Why Starmer must be tougher with the media

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Farage’s firestarter politics

A year after riots swept Britain, Reform’s leader and his supporters are warning of future unrest unless their policies are followed. The message is a threat wrapped in respectability

Nerd’s Eye View: 12 things you need to know about the Strait of Hormuz

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

Welcome to the future of dating

A whole new wave of apps offers a whole new world of opportunity

Why we need to be more chill about language change

It appears that our vocabulary is entrained with the Zeitgeist, whether we like it or not

In Germany, priests are embracing prostitutes

A festival in Leipzig marks half a century since sex workers and priests stood together in solidarity against police violence

The dwindling town of Srebrenica

Thirty years on, the genocide is remembered annually, but locals feel forgotten and struggle with ongoing division

Germansplaining: Summer holidays, Germany’s hot topic

To avoid chaos, and in true German style, the country’s schools break-up for summer at different times

War in the quiet hours

Russia has intensified its aerial assault on Kyiv. One night may pass in relative calm, giving a fragile sense of normality. The next, destruction starts again

We’ve been living in a fantasy world for centuries

The meanings of fancy and fantasy have diverged rather considerably over the centuries, just as the spellings have also changed

Meet Claude, the $14bn AI that thinks it wears a tie

Artificial intelligence makes more and more of our decisions. But two examples show it remains untrustworthy – and sometimes downright bizarre

Grand designs: Britain’s forgotten housing revolution

Social housing in the UK has a reputation for drabness. Other countries have done it far better – it’s time to learn from the ones who got it right

Gore Vidal, the man who lived for verbal jousting

An unashamed member of the educated liberal elite, he parlayed his wit and access into a career of TV interviews and debates

The EU was right to let Trump start a trade war with himself

The president thinks tariffs make America stronger. The EU knows better - and walked away from a fight not worth having