Simon Kuper

Simon Kuper and Anjana Ahuja select their must-read titles

Mere weeks into the job, ‘securocrat’ Sir Thomas Drew has positioned Paris’s 18th-century Hôtel de Charost as ‘an informal annex to formal discussions at the Élysée’. It’s no small feat

In a divided world, fandom is a social superpower

Does the country need a wealth tax?

After two years of restoration work, Brenners Park in Baden-Baden reopens this month

The secular Zionists who founded the state were desperate for allies. No longer

Warsaw’s economic miracle over the past 30 years is being undermined by Russian attacks and growing internal discord

Trump’s populist rhetoric has echoes of communism

A failure to spend less is at the root of the country’s political problems

A primetime TV talent show each summer selects the nation’s most idyllic village. But in Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye, not everyone is happy