Betrayed with a kiss: How Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ made its way to IrelandFor nearly 200 years the painting was misattributed to someone else Sat Jun 14 2025 - 05:15
Ukrainian commander’s final dispatch: ‘I had hoped my service and sacrifices would be enough, but they haven’t’In her final monthly column, the female commander of a Ukrainian drone unit says her country’s allies overestimate Russia’s strength and underestimate Ukraine’sSat Jun 07 2025 - 06:00
Gazans now eat one meal every two or three days as Trump plans his ‘Riviera’In a just world, Putin, Netanyahu and their enabler, Trump, would stand trial for war crimes and the US administration’s ‘green light for genocide’Sun May 11 2025 - 07:10
A Ukrainian commander writes: It may be extortionate, but I’d rather share our resources with US than RussiaIn her latest monthly column, the commander of a Ukrainian drone unit says attempts by Putin and Trump to humiliate Zelenskiy have backfiredSat May 03 2025 - 06:00
In Trump’s America, it can be dangerous to criticise the president’s friendsWorldview: The administration has rescinded the legal status of close to 1,000 international university students since mid-MarchSat Apr 26 2025 - 07:15
What is the reactionary international movement, Europe’s new political force?Though far-right parties have been on the rise for decades, Donald Trump’s election has empowered them. They are experiencing ‘a great emboldening’ Sun Apr 20 2025 - 07:08
I think Putin is testing Trump, to see how far he can go and how many advantages he can getWomen are underestimated everywhere in the world. There are books I’d like to write, if the war ever endsSat Apr 05 2025 - 06:00
How Putin is undermining western power through propaganda and sabotageWorldview: A former German ambassador and head of Nato intelligence says western societies must do more to protect themselves from Russia’s hybrid warfareSat Mar 15 2025 - 06:00
Real question is why Trump wants to help Putin reverse the Soviet Union’s collapseWomen politicians best analysed the consequences of the train wreck in the Oval Office, with German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock calling it ‘a new age of ruthlessness’Mon Mar 03 2025 - 06:00
‘Denys was skinny and muscular, with fair hair and blue-grey eyes. He was killed near Donetsk in February’In the third of her monthly columns, the commander of a Ukrainian drone unit says Trump’s mineral wealth demands are ‘outrageous blackmail’Fri Feb 28 2025 - 06:00
‘Zelenskiy down. Europeans out’: Why is Trump playing right into Russia’s hands on Ukraine?One possible explanation of Trump’s behaviour is that he sees China as the US’s principal adversary and hopes to prise Russia away from its influenceSat Feb 22 2025 - 06:00
‘Will the US go to war for Estonia or Latvia?’ Former French ambassador on the new world disorderWorldview: Gérard Araud says the idea of fighting for democracy is completely alien to TrumpSun Feb 09 2025 - 06:15
The Americans have nerve, asking us to sacrifice teenagersIn the second column in a monthly series, the 29-year-old commander of a Ukrainian drone unit discusses fighting on while being unable to grieve for those lost in combat and how and when the war might endSat Feb 01 2025 - 06:00
Tensions between France and Algeria escalate with row over deportation of influencerAlways testy, the relationship between the two countries has deteriorated in recent monthsSat Jan 18 2025 - 06:00
Once called ‘the devil of the Republic’, Le Pen died knowing his ideas are gaining currencyLe Pen used to boast that “I say out loud what others think in silence.” That sentiment is echoed by Trump and users of Elon Musk’s XFri Jan 10 2025 - 06:00
The Russians made them kneel in a line and shot them point blank: A dispatch from the front lineLt Yulia Mykytenko gives her eye witness account of the horrors of Russia’s attack in the context of Christmas and looming new yearSat Jan 04 2025 - 06:00
Unstable new world order has frightening echoes of 1930s and 1940sTrump’s re-election fuels global turmoil in which Putin is the biggest of many autocrats blending kleptocracy and dictatorship. US institutions and international treaties are fading, and Ukraine and Palestine have been betrayedTue Dec 31 2024 - 06:45
Fall of the house of Assad: a dynasty built on the banality of evilDecades of brutal dictatorship in Syria came to a remarkably swift end when Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow and opposition forces took control of DamascusSat Dec 14 2024 - 06:00
Contrast between the beauty of Notre Dame and the condition of France is starkMacron will hobnob with foreign leaders at the cathedral, much as Louis XVI tinkered with his clock collection on the day the Bastille was takenSat Dec 07 2024 - 06:00
Trump’s treatment of Zelenskiy as a spoiled child does not bode well for UkraineElon Musk’s participation in Donald Trump’s post-election telephone call to Volodymyr Zelenskiy from Mar-a-Lago was chilling, because two years ago Musk tweeted a 'peace plan' for Ukraine that espoused Vladimir Putin’s demandsSat Nov 16 2024 - 06:00
Exhibition forces viewers to confront the sweat and dead bodies that built Europe’s fortunesEntitled Colonial Memory, it was held recently at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid and was a reminder that colonialism has not endedSat Oct 26 2024 - 06:00
‘Great replacement theory’ a tool for Trump to fuel doubts about electionConspiracy idea about liberal elites using migrants served as the motive for at least five mass killings over the past 13 years and was cited by perpetrators of three. Trump has weaponised itWed Sept 18 2024 - 06:00
Lara Marlowe: Britain and France's inhumane treatment of migrants in English Channel is a disgraceWorldview: English Channel's worst incident so far this year occurred on September 3rd, when 12 people perishedSun Sept 15 2024 - 07:05
Big Bob and Little Bob were inseparable. Then Little Bob lost his homeA tale of two Bobs is a reminder that at the heart of homelessness is a mystery we can’t solveFri Aug 23 2024 - 06:14
A childless cat lady from California’s guide to the trendy terms and themes in US politicsAt a time when 29 heads of state or government across the world are women, many Americans fear racism and sexism will prove insurmountable obstacles to Kamala Harris defeating TrumpSat Aug 03 2024 - 06:15
French election: The far right has been held at bay, but for how long?The far right won more votes nationwide than the left alliance and Macron’s centrists but the vote was spread across the countryTue Jul 09 2024 - 20:20
France on a precipice as Le Pen aims for absolute majority in parliamentAdditional 30,000 police deployed amid fear of street violence as extreme right-wing National Rally is expected to win the largest number of seats in the snap election called by President MacronFri Jul 05 2024 - 16:21
Macron called an election to avoid ‘bedlam’. It is a mad gamble which he may not winWorld View: Dissolution was the brainchild of three Macron advisers calling themselves ‘the musketeers’, one a former journalist, the other two from PR firmsSat Jun 22 2024 - 06:00
Notre-Dame revival: The result is breathtaking - a cathedral more beautiful than everThe great and good of France will gather for Mass next December 8th to celebrate the reopening of Notre-Dame more than five and a half years after she was nearly destroyed by fireSat Jun 15 2024 - 06:00
Wars have been a constant of the human race, and they usually end the same way – from exhaustionLara Marlowe: A discussion hosted by Le Monde brought together thinkers and experts to discuss humanity’s bitter experience of warSat Jun 01 2024 - 06:00
Europe is a beacon for Ukraine, but Ukraine is a necessity for EuropeBecause Europeans conceived of their Union as a haven of peace, they all but forgot the importance of resisting totalitarianism, says Ukrainian philosopher Constantin SigovSat May 11 2024 - 06:00
This man is the best hope for peace in the Middle East. First Israel has to release him from prisonFor decades, Israeli officials complained they had no “valid interlocutor” while holding Marwan Barghouti in an Israeli jailFri Apr 19 2024 - 06:00
Jumping off the page – Lara Marlowe at the Bologna Children’s Book FairThe Irish children’s book market is thrivingThu Apr 18 2024 - 11:04
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century – A place like no otherThe author analyses the French art of conversation and ritual of Parisian dinner parties, which can be ‘genuinely joyous’Thu Apr 18 2024 - 05:00
She went home to care for her mother and ended up in a Russian prison cellRussian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva is one of five victims of Putin’s use of hostage diplomacy since the full-scale invasion of UkraineMon Apr 08 2024 - 06:15
‘You cannot hide anywhere’: A historian in exile on the brutality of Russian societyWorldview: Russia’s deeply ingrained tradition of violence against its neighbours and its own citizens led inexorably to the invasion of Ukraine, Sergei Medvedev arguesSat Mar 30 2024 - 06:30
‘Gaza is my being, my existence, my identity. The world cannot fail us now’World view: Palestinian ambassador to France Hala Abou Hassira says Israel has killed more than 100 members of her familySat Mar 09 2024 - 05:00
Seven key questions that will determine what happens next in UkraineThis is Ukraine’s darkest hour since the invasion. The country is exhausted. But no one trusts a Putin negotiationSat Feb 24 2024 - 06:00
Trump may not be a paid agent of Putin but he is certainly an asset to himSome recent conversations suggest Putin is winning the propaganda war - and he’ll have a willing stooge if Trump is electedSat Feb 17 2024 - 06:45
Biden may be the only person in the world with the power to impose a ceasefire in GazaInstead, Blinken’s handwringing and crocodile tears merely strengthen the impression of US hypocrisySat Jan 27 2024 - 05:00
Time and again, I saw the hopes of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s family crushedWill the truth about her murder now be buried with Ian Bailey, the only suspect?Tue Jan 23 2024 - 16:00
A highly contagious, psychosomatic malady called Ukraine fatigue is threatening the WestIf we give up on Ukraine and allow Putin to claim something he can characterise as victory, the results will be catastrophicSat Jan 06 2024 - 05:30
Americans are sleepwalking into a dictatorship. Why aren’t they more afraid?Worldview: A second Trump presidency could spell the disintegration of the Nato alliance, and would have far-reaching consequences for the wars in Ukraine and the Middle EastSat Dec 16 2023 - 05:00
Gross diplomatic negligence led to war between Israel and HamasContrary to what Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu says, Hamas is not IsisTue Nov 28 2023 - 06:00
‘Gaza was an open-air prison. Now it is an open-air graveyard’Israel's leaders are demonising the Palestinian people, which is a precursor to ethnic cleansing and genocide, believes a British-Israeli historian and authority on Arab-Israeli conflictSat Nov 04 2023 - 06:15
Vincent van Gogh’s final days: The extraordinary paintings from the artist’s last burst of creative geniusA fabulous new exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, in Paris, focuses on the artist’s troubled final months in the small French town of Auvers-sur-OiseSun Oct 22 2023 - 06:30
Hamas-Israel war brings direct confrontation between Iran and Israel closerWorldview: The fact that the most radical Palestinian groups are fundamentalist Sunni Muslims or Marxists never deterred the Shia Muslim Islamic Republic from arming, financing and training themSat Oct 14 2023 - 06:15
Were the Nord Stream pipelines among the biggest strategic errors of the 21st century?World View: Like a drug dealer, Putin fed Europe’s addiction, targeting the weaknesses of western politicians, a skill he honed as a KGB agent. The West was too drunk on cheap gas from Siberia to pay attentionSat Sept 23 2023 - 06:00
Lara Marlowe on being a war correspondent in Ukraine: ‘Experience is the antidote to fear’First person: The journalist on the psychological and practical challenges of working in war zonesThu Sept 14 2023 - 08:37
Ukraine’s female soldiers: Nobody will tell you, ‘You are a chick, so you are not going to fight and save me’Women soliders in Ukraine: The personal lives of many women in the country have been transformed as 60,000 are involved in the long fight to repel Russia’s invasionSat Sept 02 2023 - 06:06
