Robbins demolished a PM’s excuses – just like Starmer used to
The prime minister is in even deeper trouble after the civil servant he sacked took apart No 10’s latest tangled explanation of the indefensible
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Sun, sea and sacks of cash: Professor Boris Johnson’s £8m afterlife
The disgraced ex-PM has gone from partygate shame to a series of lucrative paydays – with the latest coming in the heat of Miami
Is Donald Trump the antichrist?
The president has so offended US evangelicals that the previously loyal are calling him demon-possessed and the Biblical ‘father of lies’
The Sun lost £53m last year – and this is what will happen to it when Murdoch is gone
It was Britain’s most influential paper. Now it’s barely in the national conversation
The bizarre truth about my own vetting for No 10
Hours after being grilled by an ex-military man, I ran into him again – in very strange circumstances
So you want to have a child. Why?
Paid surrogacy is banned in Australia. But the consequences for women in other, poorer nations are terrible, and that raises questions about the nature of parenthood itself
The mystery of the missing JFK witness
Conspiracy theorists say a man in a black cap must be part of the plot to kill a president. But the truth is likely to be very different
Arts & Culture
The new is Michael Jackson biopic is worse than bad – it’s dangerous
‘Michael’ avoids the claims of child abuse by the King of Pop – and falls into the same old cliches
The mystery of the missing JFK witness
Criminal Record has the makings of a classic
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The Grand Egyptian Museum isn’t the world’s best museum. It’s not even the best museum in Cairo
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The Two Matts
Is a brave new world possible? With John Kampfner
Journalist and author John Kampfner joins the Matts to discuss his stunning new book Braver New World – a global travelogue of bold solutions to some of the world’s thorniest problems
The bizarre truth about my own vetting for No 10
Hours after being grilled by an ex-military man, I ran into him again – in very strange circumstances
The Two Matts Q&A: The fall of Orbán, Corbyn and Kanye West
The Matts tackle listeners’ questions, including how positive should we be about the fall of Orbán and why is Corbyn polling zero percent?
A New Hope from Hungary
The Matts assess Péter Magyar’s spectacular ousting of Victor Orbán in Hungary and what it means for the fight against right-wing populism worldwide
The Two Matts Q&A: Royal visit to the US, Roger Daltrey’s opinions and Italy’s football team
The Matts answer listeners’ Easter Sunday questions, including on whether or not the King should be visiting the States and whether the debate around joining the EU will be as divisive as 2016
DARK SIDE OF THE MATTS: A spectacular row erupts over NASA’s moonshot
The Matts fall out spectacularly and unexpectedly over NASA’s moon shot, Artemis 2
The Two Matts Q&A: Are we journalists or activists?
The Matts answer your questions in their regular Sunday Q&A show, including whether their mission to see Reform fail is blinding them to the full picture and how the war in Iran is going for Donald Trump
How Jon Stewart told me the brutal truth about Trump and Hegseth
A tour of top podcasts featured savagings of Brexit – and the man baby in the White House
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You can be an expert in logic and still espouse the worst values
Here’s how the UK joins the EU and sooner than you think
The Matts argue it’s not a case of Rejoin – but Join. Joining what, though? That’s the interesting, most challenging question in European politics today
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This man tried never lying for a year – it went about as well as expected
It’s time for Parliament to become a museum
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The whale that stranded itself on purpose
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The Sun lost £53m last year – and this is what will happen to it when Murdoch is gone
Thirty more questions that Keir Starmer didn’t think to ask
Writers
Alastair Campbell
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Marie Le Conte
Can you talk seriously about sex? No stupid jokes, no laughing. Can you?
Matthew d’Ancona
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Tanit Koch
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How names go extinct, then come back to life
The woman behind Mary Poppins hated the Disney classic – and this is why
Do we really have a right to science?
Le pain and suffering: Is Gen Z really killing the baguette?
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Podcasts
The Two Matts
Is a brave new world possible? With John Kampfner
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: The fall of Orbán, Corbyn and Kanye West
The Two Matts
A New Hope from Hungary
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: Royal visit to the US, Roger Daltrey’s opinions and Italy’s football team
The Two Matts
DARK SIDE OF THE MATTS: A spectacular row erupts over NASA’s moonshot
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: Are we journalists or activists?
Brexit
The Tories and Mail go loopy over Erasmus+
Kemi Badenoch’s party and the right wing paper are convinced the student exchange scheme is aimed at brainwashing four-year-olds
Bill Cash is back. Have I gone back in time?
The veteran Brexiteer is in the Daily Telegraph railing against the government kowtowing to the European Union. Is it 1993?
Boris Johnson: ‘I love Brexit. I love Brexit’
The former PM is still cheering his project on, while the man who negotiated his hopeless deal thinks everything is going just fine
Crispin Odey drops his libel case against the Pink ‘Un
The disgraced financier had been seeking £79 million in damages over reports alleging that he had sexually assaulted several women
Rejoining Europe: the policy which could ironically unite Britain
The message from the British public is now clear and consistent: they are in favour of having a closer relationship with the EU
Brexiteers spread myths about marmalade
Brexit-backing MPs and newspapers claimed Keir Starmer’s reset would force the renaming of the orange-flavoured breakfast preserve
Ukraine
From Orbán fan to Orbán foe: will Péter Magyar change Hungary?
Viktor Orbán’s authoritarian rule is over, but Magyar once had a poster of him on his bedroom wall. When the celebrations are over and reality returns, what kind of government will Hungary have?
Here’s what Zelensky really thinks of JD Vance
After the madness of MAGA in Iran, meeting Ukraine’s president is a lesson in empathy and emotion
The athlete who jumped into history
The Ukrainian high jumper, Yaroslava Mahuchikh, has one record left to beat – a Russian one
The Africans dying in Putin’s failing war
The Russian army is luring Kenyans to fight in Ukraine. Processed and sent to the front after minimal training, most of them are dying before their first pay cheque has even cleared
Letter of the week: If Trump wants to liberate the oppressed, will he take on Putin next?
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I’m in Ukraine, a nation let down by America
Four years after the all out invasion, Ukrainians want more than just warm words. They want real help to end this war. Trump isn’t going to give it – so it’s down to us
The big picture
The artist and the blind prophet on Europe’s frontier
Emilijia Skarnulyte’s work finds the beauty in painful history and the modern in myth
A night among the Freemasons
An approach in a pub led to a seat at a ceremony of what was once considered Britain’s most secretive organisation
Great Lives
The woman behind Mary Poppins hated the Disney classic – and this is why
The night that Purple Rain broke Prince
Kazuo Shiraga, the Japanese artist who turned painting into violence
Billy Wilder, the outsider who understood the American soul
Nawal El Saadawi, the rebel doctor who wrote the truth on prison toilet roll
Lucie Aubrac, the pregnant spy who outwitted the Gestapo
Yes, AI can make our lives better. Here’s how
Relooted, the heist game that tells the dirty truth about tomb raiding