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Cash for bad people and flogging a dead horse

May 6, 2022 4:02 am

It’s official: Money for ISIS and Russia are bad ideas.

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Trump, Musk, Farage and Morgan: Like a superhero movie with no good guys

April 29, 2022 4:04 am

Who on earth are we supposed to root for now?

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Please spare us from inflight worship and hairy chests

April 22, 2022 4:04 am

Can I interest you in some Christian worship at 30,00 feet? No? Then how about the French president’s unbuttoned shirt?

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Get vaccinated 90 times and go see Putin: A beginner’s guide to being an entrepreneur

April 15, 2022 5:33 am

A global pandemic and a bloody war have done little to dampen the get-up-and-go spirit of Europeans.

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Caffeine pills, holograms and holding in a pee: Politicians’ tricks to stay alert

April 8, 2022 4:00 am

Marine Le Pen’s on vitamin C and caffeine pills as she tries to win the French election.

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How to link war in Ukraine to football and the Oscars slap

April 1, 2022 4:05 am

Everything can be linked to the Russian invasion if you look hard enough.

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Plan to bring down Putin with poetry goes from bad to verse

March 25, 2022 4:00 am

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any bleaker, along comes Bono.

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Punching Putin and cage fighting to solve the world’s problems

March 18, 2022 4:02 am

Elon Musk wants to beat up Vladimir Putin. Could be a ratings winner.

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The real Russia sanctions: Fries and gravy

March 11, 2022 4:04 am

Russians get hit where it hurts: The gut.

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Putin’s dwindling circle of friends and cronies

March 4, 2022 4:00 am

As the world turns against the Russian president, he does still have an action movie star in his corner.

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Trump cheers, Borrell raps and Putin rides on regardless

February 25, 2022 4:00 am

It’s been a traumatic week but at least we know the EXACT location of a potential Russian nuclear attack on Britain.

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Macron should side with Trump after failing with dating app plan

February 18, 2022 4:00 am

French president’s supporters tried and failed to use Tinder et al to bring out the youth vote. There is another way.

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Soft (furnishings) power: The politics of Putin’s massive table

February 11, 2022 4:49 am

‘Pass the salt.’ ‘What? I can’t hear a thing you’re saying. Invade Ukraine?’

Spy world wary as Biden team keeps leaking Russia intel

February 9, 2022 4:51 am

US national security figures get that information war is the new battleground. But ‘how many freaking times do they need to warn that anything may be imminent?’ one asked.

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Salvini’s face mask filter joins long list of digital touch-ups for politicians

February 4, 2022 4:43 am

Were Italian League leader’s colleagues wearing masks in photo? Yes, he says, just blame it on the software.

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Wanted: PR folk to help with fallout from cake ambushes and online erotica

January 28, 2022 4:00 am

Some politicians need no help, others need a great deal.

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Sun, sea, sex and scandal on Europe’s party island

January 21, 2022 4:00 am

French education minister in hot water over island retreat, but who will be next to fall for Ibiza’s charms?

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Why cleaning up politics is so hard to do

January 14, 2022 4:00 am

The UK government is making a big mess, but a German company that could help wants nothing to do with politics.

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Emmanuel Macron’s pissed off. He’s not the only one.

January 7, 2022 4:02 am

The French president hits out at the easiest of targets — the anti-vaxxers.

POLITICO’s most-read stories of 2021

December 30, 2021 4:00 am

From royal succession to vaccination rollouts, Joe Biden’s fart and the violent outbursts of a diplomat’s wife, these are the stories that got readers clicking this year.

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The world’s most admired people? Has-beens and online poopers

December 17, 2021 4:01 am

Look, let’s just pretend none of this happened.

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It’s Christmas party season (for politicians, not for you)

December 10, 2021 4:01 am

Boris Johnson should own up, Sanna Marin did own up, and in Poland, they party like it’s 1999.

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Happy ‘They’re Trying To Cancel Christmas!’ everyone

December 3, 2021 4:00 am

It’s time for the annual tradition of right-wingers getting cross about language.

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French government gets coronavirus, wages war on the world’s oddest website

November 26, 2021 4:03 am

Paris sets it sights on Wish, home to some of the strangest items imaginable.

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