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In a drastic move to curb illegal immigration, the German government has announced that it will tighten controls on its borders.
I can think of few things worse than being a tourist. So I must admit that I did manage a smirk, as I swelter my way through yet another Italian…
Hungary has just begun its presidency of the Council of the EU. Prime minister Viktor Orbán is all keyed up for the challenge
Nigel Farage's relationships and personal life is apparently complicated. Perhaps it’s because he’s got a strange allure for women.
If Ukrainians aren’t willing to defend their country then why should France or any other Nato country send their soldiers?
Frescoes are always the lead story in reports of the latest finds from Pompeii, but they are only a part of a much bigger picture. Before it was…
You’d assume the reaction to the SNP’s new hate crime laws would make other authoritarian governments hesitate before introducing similar legisl…
When so many polls suggest that restricting mass immigration would be to politicians’ electoral advantage, voters in the West are continually st…
Meloni seems to have moved gently to the centre, where von der Leyen resides. The two are often in each other’s company.
Emmanuel Macron has urged voters to back him at upcoming European elections, saying he is best placed to deal with Russia
For reasons that not even Czechs can explain, in the past they developed a habit of throwing their rulers out of windows. It started in the earl…
Russell brand has been accused of sexual assault. But what are the ethics of sex, fame, consent, and accusations of ‘grooming’?
Eurocrats don’t naturally do compromise, but Brussels may have to learn to compromise quite fast if it is to have any hope of avoiding a bruisin…
Laura Cumming writes about art with a painter’s precision. She’s been the chief art critic for the Observer since 1999. Her fourth work of non-f…
John Edmunds was, with Neil Ferguson, one of the main advocates of lockdown but has been remarkably silent about how this theory held up against…
I have a soft spot for specimen jars and skeletal remains. Museums of natural history, surgical pioneering or anthropological oddities have alwa…
When I went into the Sisu screening I knew only that it was a Finnish film, so was expecting an arthouse drama, maybe featuring bearded men in n…
There are some films that you know will be quality simply by the actors who have agreed to be in them. They’re like a kitemark. Emily Watson is…