With 99 players born in France but just 23 playing for Les Bleus, the tournament highlights how lines of nationality are blurred

If the official inquiry into these horrific crimes is to offer justice and answers, it must navigate a path through distortion and bigotry

After decades of economic exploitation, political disdain and social abandonment, people turn to anyone who will listen

The judge’s ruling in arms factory case raises spectre of what the defence barrister Rajiv Menon describes as ‘creeping authoritarianism’

The language around antiracism has degraded notions of equality to the point that it has been adopted by extremists to portray white victimhood

Despite Britons becoming more liberal, extremist ideas such as those espoused by Rupert Lowe’s party have been normalised

The Metropolitan police has more than 70 files on the 2017 London disaster, but the Crown Prosecution Service won’t even see them until September

In 1670 a group of jurors who defied a judge helped establish the independence of the jury – but the Palestine Action trials suggest that is now under threat

The evolutionary biologist claims the AI chatbot should be considered conscious, confusing fluent mimicry with genuine understanding

The culture of denial, political cowardice and hostile narratives must be confronted

The extreme views of neo-Nazis in the playwright’s 1976 drama Destiny have since moved into the mainstream

Ibram X Kendi’s Chain of Ideas argues that the racist great replacement theory dominates our politics. But is censoring its advocates really the best way to tackle the far right?

The report into the stabbing of three young girls exposes another depressingly familiar raft of systemic failures and lack of official accountability

Cynicism towards Iran’s citizens has defined a conflict that has been all about American and Israeli self-interest

Jürgen Habermas’s philosophical writings incapsulated the paradoxes and contradictions of the postwar order

The furore over the obituary shows how literalism – and the loss of context, irony and satire – is reshaping debate in an age of internet stupidity

It wasn’t sectarian politics that cost the party support, but the same class disaffection reshaping working-class voting across Britain

The BBC Tourette syndrome furore shows that the stigma exposed by the I Swear film is ongoing

Recent scare stories obscure the fact that the risk posed by artificial intelligence is most likely to come from its misuse by the powerful

Who are the intellectuals behind Trumpism? Laura K Field’s Furious Minds identifies the movement's architects and competing factions