How a prediction written two days before the World Cup turned out to be correct — and what this tells us about the right way to predict football

Christopher Nolan’s film has transformed the Odyssey into a Greek battle over identity, artistic freedom, public funds and representation. Helen is Black, there are no Greeks in the cast, the state has funded the blockbuster and even the government is divided. Meanwhile, tickets are selling out and Homer is back on the bookshelves

Rai has suspended the programme’s summer repeats. Is this a precaution or an act of revenge? A discussion on the anxiety surrounding exclusive stories

Faced with identity-based slogans and figures thrown about at random – such as the 4 per cent figure on immigrants – a methodical analysis would dismantle the concepts of remigration, sovereignty and the euro piece by piece, transforming every proclamation into a budget that must be justified figure by figure

Efficiency, power and profit cannot become the measure of what it means to be human

According to The Economist’s index, the most liveable cities are not the most beautiful ones, but those that function best

At Med-Or Day, Admiral Cavo Dragone defends NATO rearmament and refutes the M5S leader’s claims regarding the Russian threat: the allies’ F-35s are the price of deterrence, not a thirst for war