Jodi Dean: “Identity tells us nothing about politics”
The political theorist Jodi Dean wants to revive "comradeship" and class struggle as an antidote to divisive arguments about race…
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“There was a god complex”: Adam Wagner on why Downing Street broke its own Covid rules
The No 10 parties have “all seemed egregious” to the barrister who spent two years tracking the UK’s pandemic legislation.
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Will Kate Forbes be Scotland’s next leader?
At 31, the SNP finance minister is tipped to succeed Nicola Sturgeon. But will her social conservatism and evangelical Christianity…
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Ben Okri: climate change and oppression are born of the same “devouring instincts”
The award-winning writer on philosophy, mythology and the connections between racial injustice and ecological crisis.
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Bobby Gillespie: “The drugs were an integral part of the persona”
The Primal Scream frontman on his working-class upbringing, his first acid trip, and feeling “God-like” in the Nineties.
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Chih-Hsiu Shen: Why Taiwan should not have been excluded from Cop26
Taiwan’s deputy environment minister on why his country’s absence from the climate talks is bad for the planet, people and…
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“Why are people so angry?” Minouche Shafik on how the pandemic will change society
The director of LSE and former deputy director of the Bank of England calls for a post-Covid rethink of our…
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Radosław Sikorski: “Poland is on the path of Hungary and Russia”
The former Polish foreign minister on his country’s anti-EU turn under PiS, its ruling party.
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