The progressive dilemma
The anxieties and insecurities of the present moment are a formidable challenge for the centre left – in Britain…
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The anxieties and insecurities of the present moment are a formidable challenge for the centre left – in Britain…
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ByYour weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
ByThe decadent Britain of the 2000s was the perfect place for the comedian-cum-pseudo intellectual to thrive.
ByAlso this week: Bring on by-election season, and my predictions for Strictly Come Dancing.
ByAt the key moments in the drama of Jordan Peterson, his daughter is usually there.
ByWould an “activist” Starmer government have what it takes to rebuild Britain’s collapsing infrastructure?
ByBrussels’ embrace of protectionism is a problem for those who yearn for closer ties with Europe.
ByMohammed bin Salman resembles no one so much as the prince from Machiavelli’s manual of statecraft.
ByWhat a comedian chooses to joke about is revealing – and has a bearing on the world at large.
ByThe 20th century’s most influential history book foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union and rise of China. Thirty-five…
ByWill the idealist philosophy survive the conviction of its crypto king?
ByThe tech billionaire built a world that he could rule – then allowed it to destroy him.
ByThe songs he wrote with Elton John may be works of art. His bloated memoir is not.
ByAlso featuring Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang and Stay True by Hua Hsu.
ByHer prose is bare, her characters are depressed and alienated. This literary trend has coagulated into parody.
ByA new poem by Andrew McMillan.
ByTheir podcast Political Currency is a howl of nostalgia for a bygone era: backseat driving from two men whose…
ByWhere Rembrandt painted introspection, the Haarlem portraitist showed people as social creatures.
ByCraig Gillespie’s tale of the GameStop “short squeeze” shows how little amateur investors have learned.
ByThis Channel 4 Dispatches documentary, which accused the comedian of rape, sexual assault and abuse, was nauseating and terrifying…
ByThe V&A’s exhibition focuses on the designer’s clothes – with little attention given to her equally spectacular life.
ByIs there a cure? Perhaps buying nine of the 12 volumes of the Scott Moncrieff translation of Proust will…
ByI’ve lived in London for nearly 32 years and this is the first time it has happened to me,…
ByLife is about endless upheavals, but some – like Harry Kane in lederhosen – are hard to take.
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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ByThe author and critic on epidemiology, the joy of wine and coffee, and the soul of Abraham Lincoln.
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