ll internet users will recognise that things are getting worse online. Google searches now require scrolling through AI word soup and sponsored adverts at the top of results, while Facebook has become

It was the year that Donald Trump caused chaos with tariffs, Elon Musk took a chainsaw to the US government, Angela Rayner was forced to resign, and Gary Lineker left the BBC. Here we take a look at some of the people who made the headlines in 2025

Giuliano da Empoli (translated by Sam Taylor) Pushkin Press, £12.99 Last year saw the death of Tom Lehrer, the satirist who famously quit comedy when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

“The failure of economists to forecast recessions is virtually unblemished,” notes Prakash Loungani, assistant director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This includes the economists at the IM

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We are in a real-life game of Risk. In 2019, Fiona Hill, an official at the US National Security Council during Donald Trump’s first term, said the Russians had informally proposed a plan whereby they