The best long reads of 2025
The Mysterious Novelist Who Predicted Putin’s Russia – and Then Came to Symbolize Its Moral Decay By Sophie Pinkham Victor…
My weirdest Christmas: I sat in a desk chair watching the strangest movie I’ve ever seen.
In 2022, I was living in a flat above a chicken shop in north London with two flatmates and a…
‘For the first time, she could tell people who she was’: A decade of gender recognition in Ireland
Shortly after Ireland enacted its Gender Recognition Act in 2015, Labour politician Kevin Humphreys visited a care home for the…
When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have the chance to regain control.
If AI hasn’t changed your life by 2025, it almost certainly will in the year ahead. This is one of…
Danish and Greenlandic leaders have a message for Donald Trump: you cannot annex other countries.
The prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland have reaffirmed their commitment to territorial sovereignty after Donald Trump appointed a special…
Major companies are scaling back their public support for Pride events.
The UK’s largest companies are significantly reducing their public backing for Pride events, according to a Guardian analysis, raising concerns…
Spain’s socialists lost support in the regional election while the far right gained ground.
Spain’s ruling Socialist Workers’ party (PSOE), already struggling amid a series of corruption and sexual harassment scandals, has suffered another…
Christmas is a time for forgiveness. But is saying “sorry” enough?
It’s a strange season to talk about forgiveness. While streets glow with fairy lights and shop windows suggest compassion is…
The 50 best TV shows of 2025: Number 2 – Dying for Sex
“Dying for Sex” follows a woman in her forties who, after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis, leaves her husband and…
Investigators say a Russian general was killed by a car bomb in Moscow.
A Russian general has been killed after an explosive device detonated under his car in what Moscow says was likely…