Europe turns right
Parties of the hard right are in the ascendancy across the continent – but their political prospects are difficult…
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The hard-right insurgency
Letter of the week: And the award goes to…
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He shall slight them on the beaches… Sunak’s faux pas is a free pass for Cameron
Your weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
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Martin Amis and the pursuit of pleasure
A memorial for the novelist was a reminder that language should be a source of joy.
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Opening the gates of Oxbridge
Also this week: the plundering of the NHS, and a joyous arrival.
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Stephen Flynn: “This election is a straight choice between Starmer or Sunak, dull and duller”
The SNP’s House of Commons leader on how the Westminster consensus fails the United Kingdom.
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“Pro-family” rhetoric and its fascist resonances
Traditional gender roles have propped up authoritarian regimes of the past. In Republicans’ views on women, the echoes are…
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Confronting the new Europe
How the ideas of the hard right went mainstream.
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The Tories’ fate was decided long before the D-Day blunder
For the Conservatives, the race was probably already lost in January 2023.
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The anti-Baillie Gifford mob wants to police art. Writers must not give in
In cutting ties with the firm, literary festivals have fallen prey to the worst sort of playground bully.
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Rishi Sunak’s D-Day apology reveals the limits of saying sorry
It isn’t always the hardest word. It’s often the easiest. It can trip off the tongue far too readily.
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Politicians ignore the Mumsnet manifesto at their peril
It is hard to read the list of policy demands and not reflect that life is getting worse for…
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What a historic Labour win will mean for Britain
The bigger Keir Starmer’s majority, the faster and more dramatic the impact of his government will be.
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How Europe’s hard right went mainstream
Across the continent, EU leaders have badly misread the nationalist surge.
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Why the West should stop talking about the “rules-based order”
This vague, hypocritical mantra, designed for a US-dominated world that no longer exists, is harming international law.
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Labour’s next generation
Ahead of the general election, we profile 10 of the party’s brightest new candidates.
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What Orwell got right
The more the world in which Nineteen Eighty-Four was written has changed, the more it has stayed the same.
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The Ozempic effect
Magic Pill, Johann Hari’s study of the rise of diet drugs, sheds light on our deeply dysfunctional food culture.
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Honor Levy’s journey to the centre of the internet
My First Book is an endearing attempt to capture the chaos and cringe of Gen Z life.
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From Simon Lister to Violet Moller: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Nature’s Ghosts by Sophie Yeo and Spycraft by Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman.
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Sebastian Junger’s chronicle of a death deferred
The American writer’s knowledge of war’s random violence did not prepare him for a profound encounter with mortality.
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Franz Schubert’s songs of grief
The composer, who died at 31 in 1828, left behind six great works imbued with the spirit of departure.
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Anthony Hopkins takes on Sigmund Freud
In Freud’s Last Session, the 86-year-old actor gives an energetic performance that saves this talky, stagey film.
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The election debates: as petty and embarrassing as a staff-room squabble
The politicians arguing on BBC and ITV reminded me of the teachers at my comprehensive after too much Mellow…
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A new A View from the Bridge captures the play’s humour and darkness
The Crown’s Dominic West is compelling as the working-class, Italian-American longshoreman Eddie Carbone.
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Bridgerton’s flowers are pure fantasy
Many raised their eyebrows at the sex scenes; I was outraged that anybody thought wisteria, apple trees and roses…
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A GP’s dilemma: to A&E or not to A&E?
Urgent appointments for children was once the rule in British general practice. They’re now the exception.
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Uneasy rider
I still dream about the joy I felt traversing London on my old motorbike. But the idea of my…
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I’ve lost weight. Why do I find that so hard to admit?
My generation have tried to rebuild our relationship with food, exercise and our bodies – but old anxieties persist.
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The mission for our lads at the Euros? To save the nation’s pubs
An early exit from the Euros for England and Scotland could finish off Rishi. But it’s our poor old…
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This England: Don’t be cruel
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: John Bishop
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Shami Chakrabarti: “Surely Gogglebox is the best of all reality TV?”
The legislator and human rights campaigner on Nina Simone, culture wars and the wisdom of The Terminator.
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