The Age of Fury
The radiating consequences of the Israel-Hamas war are being felt across European cities.
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The Age of Fury
Letter of the week: Starmer’s struggle
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Michael Gove is considering stepping down to avoid a “Portillo moment”
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Jon Lansman: what the left gets wrong about Israel
The Momentum founder on his kibbutznik past, how progressives should respond to anti-Semitism and Jeremy Corbyn’s mistakes.
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Why the British Museum should return the Elgin Marbles
Also this week: a night with U2 in Sin City and the courage of Salman Rushdie.
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Pia Sinha: how criminal gangs are taking over prisons
The ex-prison governor and justice reformer on a crumbling British penal system.
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Where are the leaders who can tell us who we are?
Political vision is not a frippery but the hardest thing any politician can do.
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Rachel Reeves would be foolish to adopt “Bidenomics” in the UK
The policy’s core is reindustrialisation, but industry requires highly skilled labour. Where do these people come from?
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Progressives dream of tyranny
Millions of young people identify with movements that repress the freedoms they take for granted.
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The celebrity chef is dead
In the era of the post-heroic kitchen, the restaurant prevails as the brand over the celebrity’s name.
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The Iran Trap
Why Israel and the West are running out of time.
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The talons of empire
Why the world can’t escape from American hegemony.
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What are private schools really selling?
They no longer have a stranglehold on Oxbridge and would lose tax breaks under Labour. Can elite education survive?
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The horrors of the Upskirt Decade
In a new book on the vicious media misogyny of the Noughties, the recent past has never felt more…
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How women were left out of the story of evolution
A radical new history argues that human society was shaped not by hunter-gatherer skills but the bodies of our…
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The madness of Burton and Taylor
Roger Lewis’s book about the lives of the married actors isn’t really a biography – it’s a fever dream.
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From Paul Auster to Kelly and Zach Weinersmith: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Reckoning by V and Eyeliner by Zahra Hankir.
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Why we chose Benjamin Myers’s Cuddy as the Goldsmiths Prize winner
The time-travelling story about faith, nationhood and the north upends preconceptions of the “historical novel”.
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David Hockney’s clumsy late style
His more recent portraits reveal an artist whose skills are fading.
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Anatomy of a Fall is a Hitchcockian thriller with depth
Justine Triet’s superb work of psychological suspense elevates the genre.
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Why did Brian Cox agree to this terrible James Bond reality show?
If Anthony Hopkins had been announced as the new face of Eggheads, I could hardly be more appalled.
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How the culture wars infiltrated the countryside
Wander out into England’s green and pleasant land and it won’t be long before you come across evidence of…
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“Associate” medics were meant to assist doctors, not replace them
GP practices have been able to hire physician associates, and what they are allowed to do has gone under…
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When my baseball cap blew off I lost much more than a hat
My experiences in storms suggest that I was put here for a purpose. If so, what is it?
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This England: Refreshing data
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: Ruth Wills
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Mike Brearley: “I would hum Beethoven as Michael Holding ran in to bowl”
The former cricketer on his memories of the Second World War, Barack Obama and literary festivals.
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