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Donald Tusk has failed to offer a positive vision for the future. Without one, liberals will just be an interval between populist acts, say historian Karolina Wigura and journalist Jarosław Kuisz

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The Reform UK leader’s suggestion, as part of his party’s proposed immigration measures, that any asylum seeker arrested for serious crimes such as rape should have their background details issued by police, will do nothing for the community cohesion he claims to care so much about

Despite tough talk on sewage and pay, ministers refuse to challenge the water industry’s broken model – leaving private capital in charge of a troubled public service

Editorial: The likely closure of one of Germany’s most famous gay dance venues is a depressing sign of the times, as cherished institutions struggle to stay afloat

Patches, gum, lozenges and hypnotism ... none of it worked for me in the long term. If an effective remedy had existed back then, I would have jumped at it

As Keir Starmer’s government is reportedly considering yet another proposal for a mandatory universal digital ID system, it’s worth a reminder of what’s at stake for the privacy rights and civil liberties of tens of millions of citizens and residents in the UK.

In general, if someone mentions the words Citizen’s Assembly, just assume the worst. Whatever it is, it will be a buck-passing, backside-covering, partisan and annoying exercise in an institution – usually a government – trying to get through whatever measures it had in mind to begin with, only with the…

During university I was loose about a lot of things (drinking, dating, washing my bed sheets). But when it came to dining, I was militant. If you were meeting me for lunch, we were eating supermarket soup in our dorm rooms at 12pm. If we had a dinner plan, we’d…

The gentle, beautiful curiosity of humans led to the discovery that these birds are able to differentiate between paintings by Monet and Picasso

With inflation and unemployment rising, Democrats must speak out – and show they care about the average voter

Summer in London is electric. Sculpture trails pop up across the Square Mile, design festivals throw open their doors and creativity spills into the streets. But this isn’t always the case.