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First world war

June 2026

  • Radicalised … Stanley Morgan, left, and Chris Walley as the hungry plotters in a railway vault.

    Archduke review – twisted history goes to war for a sandwich

  • A man with slicked hair and a moustache holds a revolver while emerging from a first world war tank.

    Landship review – soldiers yearn for tinned meat in muddy first world war drama that stays inside the tank

May 2026

  • A group of young soldiers huddle together, looking down at a central figure who laughs with his mouth wide open

    Coward review – soldiers find escapism and romance in wartime theatrical troupe

    Cannes film festival: Lukas Dhont’s first world war-set gay romance is a heartfelt examination of cowardice and lives lived in secret amid the brutality of battle

April 2026

  • Lyle Holt in front of an RF-111C strike reconnaissance aircraft

    The supersonic strike navigator who discovered the surprising truth about his heritage

  • In this photo illustration a Chat GPT logo is displayed on a smartphone with artificial intelligence (AI) illustration on the background.

    Don’t make Marshal Foch’s mistake on AI

February 2026

  • Graves of unknown soldiers at the Gaza war cemetery in 2009.

    Revealed: Israel bulldozed part of Gaza war cemetery containing allied graves

  • Old wooden sea defences at Winchelsea beach, East Sussex.C0WRX3 Old wooden sea defences at Winchelsea beach, East Sussex.

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: The Secret Day by Stella Benson

December 2025

  • Boys from Cambridge University’s King’s College choir during final rehearsals at King’s College chapel in Cambridge, ahead of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

    The Guardian view on the festive season: a suffering world needs messages of peace, hope and goodwill

  • Pete Hegseth speaks at a cabinet meeting.

    International law on the killing of people who survive an attack at sea

November 2025

  • crowd of people on a city street carrying polish flags

    Europe live with Jakub Krupa
    100,000 take part in controversial Poland independence march, authorities say – as it happened

    Thousand attend event organised primarily by nationalist and far-right groups to mark 107th anniversary of independence
  • Paul Daley

    double quotation markWar and truth-telling warrant reflection this Remembrance Day. That takes more than just a minute

    Paul Daley
    Remembrance is a conscious act – political, cultural and personal. Today it is worth reflecting on who and what we commemorate, and what we choose to omit

    • Carol Rumens's poem of the week
      Poem of the week: Leaves by Frederic Manning

    • Second world war veterans applauded as king leads Remembrance Sunday tributes

    • Message in a bottle from first world war soldier found on remote Australian beach

October 2025

  • Getty Images Portrait Studio Presented By IMDb And IMDbPro At The Intercontinental Hotel Toronto, 2025TORONTO, ONTARIO - SEPTEMBER 06: Roger Allam of "The Choral" poses in the Getty Images Portrait Studio Presented by IMDb and IMDbPro during the Toronto International Film Festival at InterContinental Toronto Centre on September 06, 2025 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for IMDb)

    ‘I’ve played a lot of sneery bastards’: Roger Allam on bad singing, big paydays and Elgar’s level of ‘gitacity’

    He launched a thousand memes as the beleaguered Tory MP in The Thick of It, and starred in the original production of Les Misérables. Now the actor is making not-so-sweet music in the Alan Bennett-scripted film The Choral. But there are plenty of things he draws the line at …
  • Galician forest firefighting brigades work through the night to control a wildfire in Oia, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain in August 2025.

    Why Britain’s climate and defence strategies need to be better integrated

    Letter: Lt Gen (retd) Richard Nugee highlights the vital link between climate resilience and national security
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    Brief letters
    No-star review for a request for feedback

    Brief letters: Not happy ATM | Edward Thomas | Electronic ID | Trump and Blair | Days of thunder

September 2025

  • Black and white photo of people walking on a road carrying their belongings

    What role has Britain played in the history of Israel and Palestine?

    British politicians were heavily involved in region in early to mid 1900s, as Israel was established and Palestinians displaced

August 2025

  • Professor Brian Bond.

    Brian Bond obituary

    Military historian whose books, notably on the two world wars, helped to establish the subject as a serious field of academic endeavour

June 2025

  • Staff Sgt Anthony Cherrett, pictured with a Mark 1 tank at Bovington Tank Museum

    ‘A wonderful mystery to be solved’: search begins in Dorset for ‘the Mother of all tanks’

    Lost for over a century, discovery of wartime letter has rekindled interest in unlocking the secret of the world’s first prototype tank
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