Category: Vladimir Putin

Ukraine is the biggest and most consequential of all the American betrayals | Simon Tisdall

As the war enters its fifth year, it’s time for Europe to take the fight to Putin on its own terms and tell Trump to get lostViewed from Europe, the US’s failure to defend the people of Ukraine against Russian...

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Labour’s Andrew Gwynne resigns paving the way for return of Andy Burnham as an MP– UK politics live

PM declines to say whether he supports Burnham standing as Gwynne steps down Andy Burnham may have a new route to parliament after the MP Andrew Gwynne reached a settlement with the Commons that would allow him to retire and...

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Keir Starmer declines to say whether he supports Andy Burnham standing as an MP – UK politics live

PM declines to say whether he supports Burnham standing as an MP if Labour MP Andrew Gwynne steps down Andy Burnham may have a new route to parliament after the MP Andrew Gwynne reached a settlement with the Commons that would...

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Starmer says ‘British pragmatism’ helped resolve Greenland crisis as he welcomes Trump U-turn – UK politics live

PM says he hopes focus will now shift to the ‘hard yards’ of maintaining security in the ArcticAndy Burnham may have a new route to parliament after the MP Andrew Gwynne reached a settlement with the Commons that...

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Why Russia’s economy is unlikely to collapse even if oil prices fall

Hopes that tougher sanctions and lower oil prices could derail Putin’s war effort underestimate how far the Kremlin has rewired its economyPacing inside the Kremlin last weekend, as news feeds churned out minute-by-minute...

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Trump’s coup in Venezuela didn’t just break the rules – it showed there aren’t any. We’ll all regret that | Nesrine Malik

It’s not just the triumphalism in the White House. Leaders loth to oppose this gangsterism must think how that looks to Putin, Xi and in the UAEI never thought it possible that you could look back on the Iraq war, and the...

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Today an illegal coup in Venezuela, but where next? Donald Trump talks peace but he is a man of war | Simon Tisdall

The world will be anxious, and rightly so. For a man so bent on a peace prize, Trump appears to revel in conflictThe overthrow and reported capture by invading US forces of Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela’s hardline socialist...

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2025: a year in political cartoons – from a Bond-villain Trump to a toppled prince | Martin Rowson, Ella Baron, Nicola Jennings and Ben Jennings

Our cartoonists look back at a year of covering tragedy, farce and everything in between – and having to draw far too many Donald TrumpsIn a year in which I’ve drawn too many cartoons about powerful people acting...

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The best of the long read in 2025

Our 20 favourite pieces of in-depth reporting, essays and profiles from the yearVictor Pelevin made his name in 90s Russia with scathing satires of authoritarianism. But while his literary peers have faced censorship and fled...

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