Why we should break up the Met
The “bad apples” defence does not explain why toxic people are attracted to the police.
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Greying MPs and ministers hit the pension jackpot following Jeremy Hunt’s Budget
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Is the SNP heading for a split?
Both opponents and allies of Kate Forbes are warning of resignations if she becomes leader.
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An audience with the King, London’s pest problem, and why the English are afraid of the Scots
There was a hoopla in Colchester for the royal visit, with small children waving flags and a brass band.
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Victoria Bateman: “I use my naked body to try and subvert things”
The feminist economist once saw modesty as a necessity in order to be taken seriously. Now, she protests nude.
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As the polling gap closes, Keir Starmer faces his greatest test yet. He mustn’t panic
It’s “squeaky-bum time” for the Labour leader – but we know he has an appetite for concrete change.
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Like zombies, eurozone states are lurching towards their next financial emergency
A slow-burning crisis in which insolvent banks prop up insolvent businesses is a dangerous – and very real –…
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The left can win and forge a new settlement – but only if it repairs the trust we have lost
Research reveals a strong public appetite for progressive ideas. But we cannot flourish in an environment of mutual intolerance.
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Cultural change is not enough to save the Met. Its very purpose must be overhauled
The blistering Casey report identifies failings across nearly all the force’s departments.
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Despite the high risk, crypto offers a vision of a more open, creative and free internet
The industry is preoccupied with money-making, but the potential of shared computing could go far beyond finance.
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Fear grips the markets
After three US banks collapsed in a week, the global financial system is facing a new set of systemic…
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The parent trap: how Britain became a very, very expensive place to raise a child
Money alone won’t fix the childcare crisis. Rethinking work and motherhood might.
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Dmytro Kuleba: “Russian victory will ruin everything the West stands for”
The Ukrainian foreign minister on China, Donald Trump and how the war ends.
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The Washington consensus is dead
Europe, China and the US have all rejected free trade and globalisation. Protectionism is back.
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The feminist case against progress
From sex-positivity to abortion, liberal advances have dehumanised women, argues Mary Harrington – but “nature” is not always as kind…
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From Benjamin Myers to Timothy Garton Ash: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Eve by Claire Horn and A Stranger in Your Own City by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad.
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How Noël Coward became the archetypal English success
A new biography shows how he began life as a revolutionary and ended it hosting the Queen Mother.
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The history of the American South is as contested as ever
In the home of both the Confederacy and the civil rights movement, the past is never dead.
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Who is criticism for?
Seth Rogen’s protest against bad reviews misunderstands the role of the critic in the fight against mediocrity.
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Fifty years after Picasso’s death, we still struggle with the figure of the monstrous genius
The Musée Picasso Paris’s collaboration with Paul Smith attempts to reframe the great artist. Plus: another backlash for the…
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The rise of Mia Goth mania
In the horror films Pearl and Infinity Pool, the 29-year-old actor delivers two pleasingly unhinged performances.
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The Cockfields is a genius, black-hearted British social comedy
I was hysterical with laughter watching this Diane Morgan-starring series from David Earl and Joe Wilkinson.
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Tony Robinson turns to trivia
The star of Blackadder and Time Team now has his own history podcast: Cunningcast.
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Who might I be now if, during my religious upbringing, I had never heard the word “sin”?
We were encouraged to have “accountability partners” to whom we would confess our “darkest” acts and desires.
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Over Scotch eggs I am, to my shame, schooled in “The Pardoner’s Tale”
My friend Ben tells me the plot in such a way that I am suddenly inspired to read it,…
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This England: It’s wheelie heavy
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Thomas Hertog’s Q&A: “Stephen Hawking was the freest man I have known”
The cosmologist on learning to swim in Cambridge, travelling the Silk Roads, and why the future is bothering him.
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