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Sanna Marin became the world’s youngest Prime Minister of Finland at just 34, but faced a barrage of criticism. She tells Charlotte Lytton about the highs and lows of her life in politics

When I was 16 I knew I wanted to try and get into art college. So art was a fairly big preoccupation. I think I was also very interested in playing football on the street. I was maybe starting to get

The soundtrack to Japanese politics was once “quiet, calm, ambient”, says The Economist. No longer. New prime minister Sanae Takaichi, a one-time heavy-metal drummer, is setting a new beat that is “br

SOLOMON ISLANDS NATIVE CYNTHIA Houniuhi spearheaded a yearslong campaign that culminated in 2025 in a landmark advisory opinion from the U.N.’s International Court of Justice. Thanks to her leadership

Music was an all-consuming escape. Now, every song he writes is a love song At 16, I was just starting to take writing seriously. I became obsessed with lyricism and writing lines and my heroes were a

The internet sensation whose biting satire strikes fear into politicians and do-gooder campaigners alike