The strange death of the centre right
Moderate conservatives have allowed themselves to be marginalised by their populist rivals.
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The Disruptors
Letter of the week: Rules of engagement
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What makes the toolmaker’s son tick?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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America’s new plutocracy
The second Trump administration will be the wealthiest democratically elected government in history.
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In praise of neighbourhood sleuths
Also this week: Sympathy for Liz Truss’s lawyer, and mum’s not the word.
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Emily Thornberry: “I want to rebuild good vibes about the UK”
Labour’s chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee on Britain’s place in the world.
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Will the bond markets defeat Rachel Reeves?
Britain is living through a technological revolution. Labour cannot afford to panic on the economy.
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Trump’s bluster conceals an old conservative script: cut taxes, slash the state
Far from being “populist”, the Republican Party is on the cusp of finally attaining its heart’s desire since the…
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Why Mark ZuckerBro turned Meta Maga
Plus: Dominic Cummings cosies up to Elon Musk, and a reboot at the Beeb.
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Christopher Nolan’s Zeus complex
The Odyssey is the perfect canvas for the director’s obsession with power and time.
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Elon Musk’s hostile takeover
Inside the mind of the billionaire at the heart of American power.
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The question of childlessness
With the fertility rate falling across the West, there is much more affecting parents’ decisions than the economy.
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Letter from Los Angeles: My city is burning
The fires ripping through LA show that, here, beauty and danger are two sides of a coin.
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The confessions of Pope Francis
Can Hope, his autobiographical meditations on migration, sexuality and war, assuage a Catholic church in crisis?
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Rewriting the story of Gisèle Pelicot
Caroline Darian’s I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again – an account of her father’s abuse of her mother –…
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The myth of the teenager
Adolescents suffer from an image problem. Matilda Gosling’s Teenagers: The Evidence Base looks at the facts to dispel unhelpful…
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Yukio Mishima’s lifelong death wish
The Japanese writer and nationalist, a darling of the US far right, was haunted by the aesthetics of self-destruction.
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The Pierre Bonnard renaissance
The enigmatic French painter is seen by many as a league below Matisse. But a new book proves them…
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From Marcus Bull to Alva Gotby: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring: The Grammar of Angels by Edward Wilson-Lee and The Shape of Things Unseen by Adam Zeman.
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The NS Poem: Hybrid Flowers
A new poem by Hugo Williams
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Ralph Vaughan Williams’ bitter symphony
The composer’s exhilarating Sinfonia antartica was met with a mixed response on premiere – and still sits oddly in…
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The Bob Dylan mystery machine
In A Complete Unknown, director James Mangold and actor Timothée Chalamet present Dylan as an enigma – a mythology…
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Why Severance is the series for our times
The second season of Dan Erickson’s drama is just as bewildering and magnificent as the first.
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The playful trend of “chaos gardening”
It’s time to tear up the horticultural rulebook and indulge in curiosity.
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Spotify is not as cheap as it seems
And it’s making music worse.
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I am poorly but, for the first time in nearly two decades, I am unpoor
I knew something was up when I ordered a Negroni.
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How to find joy in January
Let’s keep the festivities going. The Christmas season doesn’t conclude until February, anyway.
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This England: Carriage returns
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: Teresa Bradbury
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Mark Watson: “Not to brag, but I’m looking at a Mastermind trophy right now”
The comedian on Derren Brown and finding happiness.
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