A rediscovery of who we are
The new Labour government must do better than just delivering a more efficient immigration system.
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In this week’s issue
England Undone
Letter of the week: A call for clarity
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The history of English rioting repeats itself
Periods of unrest in England are nothing new – and it’s unlikely they will end in 2024.
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Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro: a promise 15 years in the making
Also this week: hosting an esteemed guest in Paris and a self-imposed news ban.
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Why leaders listen to Elon Musk
His obsequious interview with Donald Trump is only the tech billionaire’s latest incursion into politics.
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Keir Starmer has a chance to dominate the common ground
The Prime Minister is closer to voters on the economy and law and order than Nigel Farage and the…
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The deep history of Tim Walz’s populist roots
Kamala Harris’s running mate hails from a region with a long-running tradition of egalitarian politics.
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The parallels between riots in the UK and Ireland are alarming
Since last November’s violence in Dublin, the country’s temperature has changed entirely.
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We must break up the tech platforms that threaten our democracy
We are prisoners of a global online panopticon that knows more about us than we do.
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England in pieces
Keir Starmer has imposed order after the riots. But now he must lead a national renewal.
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Zelensky’s gambit
Is the Ukrainian invasion of Russia a turning point in the war?
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James Baldwin in a time of riots
A century after the writer’s birth, the return of divisive racial politics has given his work renewed urgency.
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Elif Shafak’s warning from history
There Are Rivers in the Sky is the Turkish novelist at her ambitious and empathetic best.
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Britain’s exam delusion
Assessment has eclipsed learning in an education system that fails students and worsens inequality.
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Oasis: tribunes of the people
Thirty years after its release, the band’s debut album, Definitely Maybe, still holds revelations about the young Gallaghers.
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Bonfire of the humanities
With departments in decline, the English professor has become a risible figure in the British novel.
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Hollywoodgate is a glimpse of the Taliban at work
This revelatory film follows two soldiers in Afghanistan during the country’s regime change.
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Freddie Flintoff’s second coming
The ex-England pro leads his young team for a second series of self-discovery.
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The decline of the US public school
The latest instalment of BBC Radio Four’s Crossing Continents series explores the rejection of public education in Arizona.
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Do we still need salt?
The feted mineral’s long and storied history with humans is evolving once more.
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Even flying ants get more action than I do
I’m unlikely to join the Twenty-Foot-High Club, never mind the Mile-High Club.
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Two weddings and a funeral forged new traditions that will in time be old
Glamour, grief and glass-smashing: my family has been through it all.
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This England: The potamophilous oath
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Subscriber of the week: Colin Reid
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Nathalie A Cabrol: Q&A: “I was happiest diving into volcanoes’ summit lakes”
The astrobiologist on living in Ancient Egypt, heading back to the Andes, and the delusional mindset of humans.
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