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Charges of hypocrisy do not land if the supposed hypocrite is not committed to any kind of consistency in the first place

Such a truce would determine whether Putin is ‘acting in good faith’, French foreign minister says

All but handful of agency’s personnel around world to be placed on paid leave, according to notice sent to workers

US president’s attempt to control or dismantle cultural institutions plays into a long history of authoritarians using arts to push their agenda

Community grapples with fear over ‘proliferation and normalisation of anti-queer and anti-trans sentiment in politics and the media’

Citizens’ trust in their political institutions has been falling around the world. This may not come as a shock to many.

European leaders are scrambling to respond to what looks like the end of reliable US protection of the continent. It is unclear what the “main European countries” (which includes the UK) might be able to agree at a hastily convened meeting in Paris on Monday February 17. But individual countries,…

Jokes about the president’s power grab at the Kennedy Center in Washington soon pale. This is a nakedly authoritarian move, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins

A Hungarian-inspired revolution. Plus: How it all went wrong for Emilia Pérez