The radical director of Breathless and Alphaville, and who was a key figure in the French Nouvelle Vague, has died

Who knows where that extra tax revenue would end up, asks Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Kleptocrats appreciate Britain’s rule of law — as long as it leaves them alone

Britain has for decades helped a mafia state stash its stolen money. Our long-term security depends on cracking down, says author Oliver Bullough

The UK’s weak initial response risks emboldening Putin’s coercive diplomacy

How many exposés will it take for Switzerland and other countries to change their laws on banking secrecy, says Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics

Seminal work by Black scholar, which was shunned for decades, finds British publisher

The director was a film-maker with mordant and subversive things to say about the postwar Italian soul, particularly in Seven Beauties

Exporters advised by Department for International Trade officials to form EU-based companies to circumvent border issues

The mayhem showed the party is splitting up but also lifted the curse of Trump from the careers of rightwing young lions