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World news + Letters

February 2026

  • Cricket Match at Bath Cricket Club

    Perfect pitches for historic matches

  • A rally against rising populism in the Czech Republic’s capital, Prague.

    Populism is plain to see all around us

  • Aftermath of Russian attack on KostiantynivkaKOSTIANTYNIVKA, UKRAINE - AUGUST 22: Ukrainian firefighters work to extinguish a blaze in a residential building after Russian shelling hit the city of Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, on August 22, 2025. (Photo by Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Chickens coming home to roost in eastern Europe

  • ANTONIO GRAMSCIAntonio Gramsci (1891-1937), politician; before adhering to the Socialist Party, then one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party in 1921. Portrait in photograph, 1921. (Photo by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images)

    We need to promote Gramsci’s famous saying about the optimism of the will

  • We don’t need to control pigeons – just the people who feed them

  • Having a stoma bag isn’t usually so bad as it’s been for Tracey Emin

  • The rock history of Ireland’s stone lifters

  • Progress on family planning in Afghanistan is still possible

  • Treaties to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons are failing

  • Why the Chagos Islands’ ecology will not be wrecked by return to Mauritius

  • Britain must uphold its obligations to protect Palestinians

  • The death of medical care for Afghan women

January 2026

  • An aerial view of Diego Garcia Islands in the Indian ocean.

    Chagos Islands’ pristine ecology must be protected

  • Jens-Frederik Nielsen in blue anorak

    In Greenland, anoraks are formal wear, not fashion statements

  • Reconstruction efforts in the historical market of Aleppo

    Not all efforts to rebuild Aleppo are local

  • Greenland’s flag flies in the country’s capital, Nuuk, on 20 January 2026.

    Save Greenland for us all with a global protectorate

  • We Venezuelans must choose our own path

  • UN charter reminder for the attorney general

  • A long, dire history of US interference in Iran

  • Brief letters
    Pavement plaques for fictitious everyday heroes

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