The decline of the One Nation Tory
That Rishi Sunak is under pressure to pursue a Trussite agenda is a reflection of how narrow the Conservatives’…
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Letter of the week: Reasons to stay put
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Another Rishi reshuffle won’t help him restore party discipline
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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How dating a couple set me free
Falling for two women has forced me to reassess the boundaries between friendship and love.
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Yalda Hakim’s Diary: Afghanistan’s freezing winter, secret schools for girls, and the crime of being a woman
After the Taliban took over I met many women who told me they had no intention of leaving –…
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Psychic Sisters’ Jayne Wallace: “I open my crown chakra and throw out a beam of light”
The Essex clairvoyant – a hit on Dragons’ Den – is finding a UK market for Goop-like wellness with…
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The age of hyper-globalisation is ending
As competing geopolitical blocs emerge, countries are increasingly turning to regional allies for trade and financial security.
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Liz Truss’s essay shows she is as deluded as ever
The danger is how many Tories will agree with the former prime minister’s bizarre logic.
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Why Europeans should not get too used to Joe Biden, the last of the Atlanticists
After the traumas of the Trump presidency, Europe is mistaking his successor’s leadership for the new normal.
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Rishi Sunak, the man who isn’t there
As the Prime Minister dithers, his foes advance and Britain declines.
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Asia’s dangerous new arms race
Russia’s war and China’s military build-up are provoking an unprecedented change in Japan’s approach to its defence.
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What does Evgeny Lebedev want?
Buying British newspapers gave the Lebedevs clout in Tory high politics. Over a decade on, it remains unclear what…
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A reckoning for Silicon Valley
Malcolm Harris’s new book shows how Californian capitalism has thrived by exploiting an unequal world. But could the “Palo…
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Pamela Anderson’s fantasy life
In her memoir Love, Pamela the model and actress reveals that despite the trauma and abuse she still sees…
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Victory City: Salman Rushdie’s story factory
Rushdie’s new novel, completed before his attack, is a fable that displays his overweening faith in narrative.
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The blurred ethics of memoir
Blake Morrison’s account of sibling tragedy passes its moral questions on to the reader.
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From Brian Dillon to Tara Zahra: new titles reviewed in short
Also featuring Masters of the Lost Land by Heriberto Araujo and I Am Still With You by Emmanuel Iduma.
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The NS Poem: Creator, we need an answer
A new poem by the Russian poet Larissa Miller, translated by Rowan Williams, on the first anniversary of the…
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The idiot rich are taking over our cities – and our culture
Why the Supreme Court's decision on the Tate Modern is bad news for London. Plus: Lydia Tár, audiobooks, and…
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Albert Namatjira: outsider of the outback
Only in his paintings could the Aboriginal artist overcome the prejudice of white Australia.
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In Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, sexual assault survivors refuse silence
In this Mennonite #MeToo drama, the victims of male violence must choose between faith and their desire for justice.
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An Everywoman on her way up
Funny Woman is a broad, old-fashioned comedy about an aspiring female comic in Sixties London with an indisputable star…
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A queer kind of poetry
This bittersweet, beautiful programme highlights odes to relationships between two men or two women.
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If only I still had the desk my father made me, my magnum opus would be written by now
I let that unwieldy piece of Douglas fir go as a teenager in a house move – not grasping…
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I am plagued by illness – and my medicine of choice is Columbo
Being poorly these days involves actual discomfort. I would toss and turn if I could – but even that…
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This England: Twitchers vs Twitter
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: Paul Pearce
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Dacher Keltner Q&A: “I’m not wired for happiness”
The Berkeley psychologist on growing up in Laurel Canyon in the Sixties and why you should do your homework.
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