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Mauritania
The migrant graveyard
The west African country is a launch point for migrants trying to reach the EU. One in five die on the crossing, Olivia Acland reports from Nouadhibou, where one man has made it his mission to bury their bodies
Antisemitism
One passport, two histories
James Harding explains why claiming a German passport was a way to celebrate his family’s history and the culture of Britain, the place which welcomed them
Cancer
The waiting game
After months of chemotherapy, David Barnett’s oesophagus was gone in the blink of an eye. Stranger than the swiftness of the operation was the realisation that some people want to sell off the NHS, he writes
For today
Iran conflict
Steve Bloomfield
World War Three or merely the world at war? Either way, the ‘middle powers’ must end it
Politics
Ceri Thomas
Christopher Harborne has cemented Reform’s status as a money-making machine
Theatre
Katherine Cowles
Olivier awards 2026: it’s the year of the musical
Beauty
Eva Wiseman
The driven life and tragic death of British ‘Lip King’ Jordan James Parke
Iran
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Isabel Coles
Zelensky offers to help Gulf states shoot down Iranian drones
Fred Harter
The US sinking a warship off Sri Lanka doesn’t solve a crisis in Hormuz
Bernard Gray
Britain hasn’t the strength to stop a drone, let alone join Trump’s war in Iran
Ruth Michaelson
Donald Trump wants to see regime change in Iran. This may be wishful thinking
Ideas
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