Left vs left: the battle for control of Labour pitches Unite against Momentum
Replacing the party’s general secretary with a thoroughbred Corbynite is a priority for the Labour left. The question is: who?
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The new cold war
Paapa Essiedu Q&A: “Where would I like to live? Ghana in the 12th century“
The actor talks Will Smith, James Baldwin, and Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.
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Diving used to be what foreign players did. But now we Brits are rule-benders too
Amazing, really, how long our national self-deception has lasted.
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The way we watch TV has changed forever. What will this do to our culture?
Murdoch has always been a news man for whom entertainment was a commercial, not emotional, concern.
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It’s a strange sobering feeling, not having parents. You never get used to it
There’s no one left between you and the finishing line.
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What is wine if not a distillation – and promise – of summer sunshine?
Now is the perfect time to take to the bottle.
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The best thing about BBC 5 Live podcast, Brexitcast, is its lack of lamenting
In a moment characterised by communal horror, Brexitcast sounds fairly relaxed - even normal.
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Violence, paedophilia, kidnap – You Were Never Really Here relies on schlock tactics
Critics are calling Lynne Ramsay’s film a fresh twist on Taxi Driver. I’m afraid I can’t agree.
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Amazon’s 9/11 series, The Looming Tower, has two fantastic performances at its heart
Plus, new Netflix documentary series Flint Town.
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US comedies’ new favourite formula: a suburban lead in a high-octane action setting
From Date Night to Horrible Bosses to Bad Neighbours to Game Night. Is anyone else noticing a pattern?
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All too human: How Bacon, Freud and the postwar British painters made realism both new and personal
A striking new exhibition at Tate Britain looks afresh at the “school of London” in a period seemingly dominated…
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Ben Okri’s The Magic Lamp is a collection of morally ambiguous tales for our trying times
Pairing 25 original paintings with 25 original stories, the collaboration with his partner, the painter Rosemary Clunie, took five…
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Chris Power’s collection of short stories explores suppressed and imagined trauma
Mothers contains ten sensitively executed stories that reveal Power’s studied knowledge of the history of short fiction.
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Don’t mention the S-word: why Labour has never been a socialist party
A clear-sighted history of Labour’s left explores the challenges a Corbyn administration would face
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Marilynne Robinson’s new essay collection is acerbic – and problematic
In What Are We Doing Here?, Robinson attacks Fox News and the “dystopian media”.
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The long spring: following the two billion birds that migrate to Europe each year
Science is only now revealing some of the last mysteries of migration.
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Hineni
The NS Poem: Hineni.
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The treacherous relationship between Pakistan’s intelligence agency and the CIA
How Pakistan has played a deadly game with the US.
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Empty promises: how 600 million young people in India have been missold the future
Mumbai’s young Indians occupy a world of loans and get-rich-quick schemes. Are these the losers of globalisation?
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“I got out and ran”: with one attack a week in London, is using Uber safe for women?
Users entrust untrained strangers to drive us around simply because they operate via a sleek, shiny app.
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Could Donald Trump refuse to leave office when his presidency is up?
The US leader’s latest praise for an authoritarian power grab is made scarier by not being an isolated incident.
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Delusions, hypocrisy and historical amnesia – the Tory Brexit meltdown begins here
The danger of the current situation in Northern Ireland lies in the fact that Brexit is, effectively, an English…
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The Sinn Fein question: could the party stop a hard Brexit?
For a century Northern Ireland’s republican MPs have refused to take their seats at Westminster. But is it their…
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Italy’s salvation will not come with a sleek and smarmy redeemer like Berlusconi
The 81-year-old politician is symptomatic of the “anti-elite” animus now affecting much of the western world.
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The race to conquer the Arctic – the world’s final frontier
As the polar ice caps melt, Russia and China are leading the race to control the lucrative and strategically…
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Without paywalls, the media accepts serfdom in the kingdoms of Facebook and Google
Facebook has packed up the media’s clothes, guitar and complete set of Bob Dylan albums and left it in…
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Jeffrey Archer’s Diary: having been consistently wrong, I predict Corbyn will be PM
Hopefully my current streak remains in tact.
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Why students are coming out in support of their striking lecturers
The protests reflect anger at a higher education model that treats staff as service providers and students as consumers.
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“I hope for Goldman Sachs’ bankruptcy”: Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Skin in the Game
In Taleb’s universe, the fieriest circle of hell is reserved for bankers and neoconservatives.
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Cape Town is running out of water and Day Zero is looming
“You can’t avoid it. If Day Zero happens, Cape Town becomes a dysfunctional space.” But isn’t it already?
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Commons Confidential: Is Jeremy Hunt preparing to check out from his role in the cabinet?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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On historic fascism, The Daily Mail’s exposé of Max Mosley is a case of pot, kettle, black
Perhaps the Mail could set an example in its demands for a public apology.
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Leader: As seen in Italy, social democrats are being left behind across Europe
Labour is the only major European party of the left to have advanced in recent times.
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