The afterlives of English footballers typically involve a stint in coaching or a spot of punditry. Gary Lineker is a glaring exception. His career encapsulates deep trends and faultlines in Britain’s personality econ.st/4bwpYE1 👇

If you live in Britain, chances are you’ll associate Jews with the current war and with Auschwitz. Maybe, if you’re religious, the OT. My 2 cents on why we need a month dedicated to Britain’s Jewry and who should lead it. BIAJS thejc.com/lets-talk/why-… via The Jewish Chronicle

we kneel before heroes, not invaders Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський 🇺🇦🫶🏻

Something about the whole D-Day row makes me uncomfortable. I think Farage and others have been waiting for an opportunity to say that our first PM of Indian origin is not really British and doesn’t “get” the country. And now Sunak has blundered and given them that opening

We started conceptualising and planning this case in 2015. Eight years later, it had won, making history in Mauritius. Now, Ryan tells his story.

Not only did Georgia play some of the best football of the Euros so far (despite losing), their fans also chanted "Putin is a fucking dickhead," (Путин хуйло) and it got shown live on air all over Russia.

Progess is possible....and (even amid the gloom) it is happening Human Dignity Trust

Britain on the brink: what does the country look like after 14 years of Tory government? My podcast for The Economist economist.com/podcasts/2024/…

This moving exhibition of Ukrainian modernist art arrives this week in London Royal Academy I reviewed it on its arrival in Madrid in late-2022 economist.com/culture/2022/1…

“We are the forgotten people”. “They’ve lied about Brexit. They didn’t tell us the truth, it was going to be so wonderful.” For “The Weekend Intelligence”, A D Miller travels the country to see how Britain is feeling after 14 years of Tory rule econ.st/4eFP59h 🎧

Britain is “on its knees now. Any more and it’d be on its elbows—and your face would be in it!” My survey of the Tories' legacy for The Economist economist.com/britain/2024/0…

A lovely series of exit pen portraits by Joel Budd economist.com/britain/2024/0…

"Sometimes Britain seems to be turning into a giant, dysfunctional metaphor for itself." A tour of the country, and of 14 years of Tory rule, for The Economist economist.com/britain/2024/0…

My God, I haven't checked my phone for an hour. In that hour, I’ve already become a terrorist. Killed the husband, labeled the wife a terrorist - typical Putin

Today is fifteen years since the Chechen human rights activist Natasha Estemirova was assassinated in Russia’s North Caucasus region. She was an incredible, inspiring person and is not forgotten. A few words about her in this thread.

A lot of racist hate being directed at my colleague Shashank. These people are pathetic. I’m standing proudly in solidarity with him as well as with the millions of children of immigrants and those, like me, who are immigrants themselves.

“There is no document of civilisation”, wrote the critic Walter Benjamin, “that is not at the same time a document of barbarism”. Take a holiday in a storied European city and you see what he meant econ.st/4dBFlLX 👇

Tired, dirty + exhausted, soldiers say they regret no part of operation that has already killed scores of their comrades:“For first time in a long time we have movement. I felt like a tiger.” My report from Ukraine’s Kursk offensive economist.com/europe/2024/08… from The Economist

Many people put a huge amount of work into this cover package. I hope it gets Sudan more of the attention it deserves

'I found myself talking about childhood trauma to a crowd of parents with young children. The act that preceded mine had been a fart noise contest. But I shouldn’t complain.' Kieran Setiya (Kieran Setiya; @ksetiya.bsky.social): From philosophy to stand-up the-tls.co.uk/regular-featur…