What Germany gets wrong
The war in Ukraine is among the biggest tests the EU has faced – but instead of showing leadership,…
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Why Germany doesn’t do it better
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To ward off election hubris, Labour raises the spectre of Neil Kinnock in 1992
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Stephen Flynn: “The Tories and Labour are one and the same”
The SNP’s new man in Westminster on the party’s internal divisions, Scotland’s gender bill and Brexit.
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Rachel Reeves’ Diary: At Davos, there are two challenges – fixing the global economy, and walking in snow boots
Keir Starmer and I received a warm welcome at the World Economic Forum, despite the -14°C temperatures.
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Bret Easton Ellis: “Wokeness is running out of room”
The Shards is the famously morbid author’s latest “trickster book”. He prefers cabinet shopping to culture wars now.
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Why Labour thinks it has solved the Brexit conundrum
If Keir Starmer’s party wins, expect a slew of specific UK-EU treaties to be negotiated.
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Germany is isolated once more – and no one now trusts Olaf Scholz
For Europe, the German chancellor’s first year in office has been a series of broken promises and fractured relationships.
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Once you’ve seen the true extent of Tory sleaze, it’s impossible to unsee it
How can Nadhim Zahawi have made a “careless and not deliberate” error that left him with a tax bill…
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Norway’s golden generation of athletes proves the value of sport as a public good
A unique commitment to making the “joy of sport” available to all is producing world-class talent in everything from…
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Oleksiy Danilov: “Weak people always come up with excuses not to act”
Ukraine’s national security adviser on German betrayal, the coming Russian onslaught and why the West is scared.
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The unbreakable spirit of Andy Murray
The Scottish tennis player has achieved a late-career grandeur and nobility.
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The twilight of the British Union
If Labour wins the next election it will face nationalist opponents in Scotland and England. Could the UK survive?
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The detective of world history
The New Left thinker Tom Nairn, who has died aged 90, understood the appeal of British identity even as…
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In search of a language of loss
Is there a correct way to mourn? When my mother died, I scoured the literature of grief for answers
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From Don Paterson to Brigitte Reimann: new titles reviewed in short
Also featuring Pegasus by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud and Sensational by Ashley Ward.
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How identity politics props up racism
There are many ways to be black, as new books by Kenan Malik and Colin Grant show –and a…
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The myth of America’s love affair with guns
In Bloodbath Nation Paul Auster says fixing the firearms crisis requires deep cultural change. What it really needs is…
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Nan Goldin’s politics of sex
The film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed shows how, from the Aids crisis onwards, the photographer merged steely…
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Boris Johnson is writing a memoir. Will we be able to trust it?
The problem with prime ministers’ autobiographies. Plus: self-indulgent podcasts, perfect pianos and the genius of Vermeer.
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A history of Spain in 150 objects
From El Greco to Goya and Mexican clay to Moorish gold, a new show at the Royal Academy reveals…
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Spielberg’s The Fabelmans is a major and personal work
The director’s 34th feature – and the first to turn the camera on himself – ranks as one of…
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Everyone Else Burns attempts “edgy” comedy – but ends up predictable
Like so many supposedly funny shows just lately, this sitcom about an extreme Christian sect isn’t funny enough.
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The mystery of Havana syndrome
This strange story from investigative journalist Nicky Woolf sits at the intersection of so many dark subjects.
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I live with two children who are not my own and they are doing me the world of good
How sweet it is to enter into a world created by the contortions of child’s imagination, and to pretend…
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I missed one of the best World Cup finals ever, but now I know all about the crisis in the NHS
We asked if we could turn the match on in A&E and were told: “This is a hospital. Not…
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This England: Spice king
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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George McGavin Q&A: “All species live on the knife-edge of survival”
The entomologist on lush prehistoric forests and inescapable doom.
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