Design
LIFESTYLE
Rarity or Vanity? When Luxury Becomes Art’s Language
Record-breaking watch auctions and conceptual art stunts reveal the same tension: when does culture express meaning, and when does it simply display money?
Exhibitions
The Near East in the Louvre: Time Held in Stone
In the Mesopotamian galleries of the Louvre, lions still guard doorways and musicians still play for gods who fell silent thousands of years ago.
BUSINESS
Casablanca’s Urban Revolution: What Europe’s Cities Are Missing
Casablanca’s rapid urbanisation offers lessons for Madrid and Milan in transport, planning, sustainability, and social justice.
Popular
An Evangelical War: Rome Takes on Washington
As a Cardinal is turned away in Jerusalem, a defiant Pope Leo XIV in Rome denounces the holy war rhetoric currently steering Washington's foreign policy.
Estonia’s Digital Success Cannot Fix the Demographic Dread
A poll this week found two thirds of Estonians considering leaving, as births near historic lows and Russia remains the neighbour nobody forgets.
Breaking Point: The AfD American Divorce
Germany's AfD are now turning their backs on allying with Trump, as his adventurism abroad in Iran is causing a national rethink on American militarism.
On Par for the Course: Trump Scores Off Gulf Turmoil
A sitting US president runs an active war from his Florida golf estate while his Scottish resort solicits bookings from tourists fleeing his Gulf battleground.
Lebanon Sends Byblos to Paris as a Warning
Macron opened a 9,000-year Byblos exhibition in Paris on Monday while Israeli strikes hit the Lebanese Christian heartland of Kesrouan for the first time.
