The end of the Brexit taboo
Only the most ideological Leaver – of which there are a diminishing number – would contend that Brexit has…
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Why the right is losing everywhere
Letter of the week: Our duty to Afghanistan
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Why the Tory right wants hush from Truss on tax-cuts
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The anger and hope the earthquake left behind
As the death toll in Syria and Turkey passes 36,000, survivors question whether some deaths could have been prevented.
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Andrew Murray’s Diary: Back to my old Commons beat, recalling the bellowing-booth and lessons from the Iraq War
I am reprising my role as the Morning Star’s parliamentary reporter – and hoping there are no problems with…
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Hannah Barnes: Inside the collapse of the Tavistock gender clinic
The Newsnight journalist on her book Time to Think, and why she had to tell the story of the…
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Nicola Sturgeon is running out of time – and her rivals know it
As the First Minister’s popularity declines, her grip on her party and the country is slipping.
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Can Britain ever rejoin the EU?
First, Remainers must understand what a future UK membership would actually entail.
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The criminal justice system is broken, and neither gaffer tape nor the Tories will fix it
The crown courts ended last year with a backlog of 61,737 cases – a figure that “tough on crime”…
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Football remains spectacular, but the trust between clubs and the public is broken
The game’s richest teams have disfigured the economic terrain of the sport – but a reckoning is on the…
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The strange death of the centre right
In Western democracies conventional conservativism is foundering. How did this once-dominant political force become so diminished?
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Mutiny at the BBC: “Almost everyone has left. No one does any journalism”
After BBC chairman Richard Sharp’s appearance before a select committee, the mood has turned from despondency to rage.
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Britain’s crisis of unbelief
In a nation that binds spiritual and temporal power, will the end of the old metaphysical order threaten the…
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How consultancy bleeds Britain dry
In The Big Con Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington reveal how management consultants promise to fix governments but end…
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Michael Bracewell’s anatomy of English nostalgia
In Unfinished Business one of our finest cultural critics returns to fiction with a meditation on memory and national…
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From Mark Hyatt to Nona Fernández: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Killjoy by Jo Cheetham and The Treasuries by Clare Bucknell.
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The women classical music forgot
Leah Broad’s Quartet restores the pioneering work and colourful lives of Britain’s finest female composers.
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An unmissable view of Vermeer’s secret worlds
This unprecedented gathering of the artist's works at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam reveals the painter's mastery, if not his…
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The war within Pink Floyd
How a Shakespearean battle between Dave Gilmour and Roger Waters erupted over art, money and geopolitics.
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Magic Mike’s hollow feminism
This “empowering” franchise about male strippers peddles an offensive, patronising narrative about women and sexuality.
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The surprising delights of monotonous meals
For an entire university term I lunched on jacket potatoes with beans and cheese, as why change a winning…
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Florian Zeller’s The Son is a work of crass melodrama
The decorated playwright and director’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning The Father is manipulative and underwritten.
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BBC One’s The Gold is outstandingly enjoyable TV
This madly entertaining drama about the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery doubles as an account of the Thatcherite Eighties.
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Our Shamima Begum obsession
Her story has been told and retold in countless newspaper articles, three podcasts and three documentaries. Why can’t we…
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How Burt Bacharach rewrote the rules of pop
The composer’s music was often described as “easy listening” – but it appealed alike to jazz musicians, popstars, rock…
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False teeth, smashed ceramics and unused fish knives – I come from a long line of hoarders
As market gardeners, my family were rich in fruit but little else – perhaps that explains the decapitated dolls’…
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In my broken state, the very last thing I need is to tour Brighton in search of meds
I was more wreck than human being, but at least I was less of a wreck than some of…
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This England: Delivered from danger
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: Murray Rowlands
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Munroe Bergdorf’s Q&A: “I would love a government that cares about its people”
The model and activist on Rishi Sunak, fighting for LGBT rights and her desire to have lived during the…
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