Leader: Why the right keeps losing
Following Scott Morrison's loss in Australia and the rise of the centre left across Europe, there is an opening…
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Out of Control
Letter of the week: The party of levelling up
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Jacob Rees-Mogg’s four-day work week
It transpires Rees Mogg takes no official papers back to Somerset for long weekends
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Jürgen Klopp and the mystique of the team
How the Liverpool manager transformed the club and its players, and transcended the tribalism of its fans.
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Ahdaf Soueif’s Diary: My nephew is on hunger strike in an Egyptian prison. Can the British government save him?
Since 2006, every regime that has come to power in Egypt has tried to silence Alaa Abd el-Fattah –…
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Can Zarah Sultana save the Labour left?
The 28-year-old socialist MP on her viral fame, social media abuse and Keir Starmer’s leadership.
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Courts, rivers, teeth: No 10 has shed its responsibilities
This government once had a big idea but, hampered by the pandemic and its own melodrama, it has become…
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As China’s growth stalls and supply chains falter, the West faces a stagflation trap
Soaring energy and food prices mean inflation is rising globally – and it will only come down if banks…
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Labor’s win in Australia isn’t decisive – but it marks a reshaping of politics
The spectacular defeat of Scott Morrison exposes the long-term decline of both of the country’s main parties.
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The secret to Iga Swiatek’s dominance in tennis is not just winning, but enjoying it
In a sport that drags its athletes in a hundred directions, Swiatek has succeeded by prioritising her mental health.
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How Britain’s failure to reckon with global forces led to a cost-of-living crisis
At the end of the era of globalisation and market-led capitalism, there is no clear successor to this crumbling…
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“There is a serious vacuum in the Kremlin. It can’t last” Christopher Steele on Ukraine and Putin
The former spy and author of the Trump-Russia dossier talks Londongrad oligarchs, Ukraine and the vulnerability of Vladimir Putin.
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How the Marshall Plan made Europe
It is 75 years since the US launched its ambitious aid scheme to rebuild postwar Europe and protect it…
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Who is to blame for 30 years of climate change inertia?
Two new books trace the history of global inaction over the climate emergency, and seek to identify the culprits.
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The joyless rise of Anna Wintour
Amy Odell’s new account of the iron-fisted Vogue editor’s ascent struggles to find the human being behind the shades.
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The myth of the white male scientific genius – and why its time is up
Darwin and Newton acknowledged their debt to other cultures. Why don’t we?
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Reviewed in Short: New titles from Kris Manjapra, Karolina Ramqvist and Emilie Pine
Black Ghost of Empire by Manjapra, Bear Woman by Ramqvist, Deep Deception by Alison, Belinda, Helen Steel, Lisa and…
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Cornelia Parker exposes the hidden meanings of everyday objects
A new exhibition of the artist’s work at the Tate Britain reveals her skill at turning mundanity into profundity.
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Top Gun: Maverick and the politics of the action hero
In its Reaganite military pomp, Top Gun seemed to mark the end of an era – but a new…
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The Quiet Girl is an artfully muted masterpiece
With his remarkable film about a timid child sent to live with relatives in rural Ireland, Colm Bairéad provides…
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Grayson’s Art Club Jubilee special: a terrifying extravaganza for the bunting obsessed
If television is, as I believe it to be, a barometer of national cultural health, this country is getting…
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The Future Will Be Synthesised: a glimpse into a deepfake dystopia
The rise of “deepfake porn” – turning harmless images into hardcore footage – begins a BBC Radio 4 series…
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A shadow hangs over this year’s Chelsea Flower Show – our climate crisis
Chelsea was always ecologically problematic, but it feels impossible now to view it simply as a pretty flower show.
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Joyous fans, strange signs and football to savour – it’s been a remarkable season
I am convinced the perimeter advertising billboards at the Etihad Stadium have doubled in size – my eyes are…
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My footwear choices are a protest against encroaching old age
The mother of my children pointed to my shoes and said, “This is what mutton dressed as lamb looks…
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In an age of streaming and endless choice, I cling to my DVD collection
Who needs Netflix when you have the holy trinity of This Life, Bodies and Prime Suspect in literal boxset…
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This England: Losing Faith
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: Mark Lynch
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Hannah Gadsby’s Q&A: “My hero? There’s a tree in my yard that I’m quite fond of”
The comedian discusses having autism, long-haul flights and dealing with internet trolls.
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