The French fracture
A social thinker illuminates his country's populist divides.
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Why the Tories keep winning
Where rock god and banker shop side by side, united in age and purchase power
John Varvatos, the designer helping rock stars keep their cool
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Rory Stewart Q&A: “I’ve always wanted a full-size, fully functioning Batmobile“
The MP and former diplomat talks ancient kingdoms, Italian painters and watching The Wire.
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In the stables at Sandringham, I admired Philip’s invention: the mobile picnic trailer
"The stable block has an exhibition of things people send to the Queen: an ostrich egg; a wooden goat;…
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I am finally selling my beloved collections – to get a bit more balance in my life
I've been collecting memorabilia since the 1966 World Cup final, but now it's time to move on
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“She asks me how my love life is these days. This is not a fun question to answer.”
A quiet drink turns into an interrogation .. and no denial is good enough
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In the Middle East, the hummus wars rage on. One Arab-Israeli restaurateur mounted an offensive with four tonnes of the stuff
Future generations will want to know how you coped during the great hummus shortage of 2017.
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Wireless protocol
In search of the vanishing voice of a generation
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A tale of two Windsors
Mike Bartlett’s triumphant King Charles III and the plodding Barbara Windsor biopic Babs.
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More than its monsters
The latest instalment in Ridley Scott's series elevates the horror beyond the purely physical
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Lone ranger: the art of Alberto Giacometti
A revealing retrospective of the sculptor's work speaks to mankind’s alienation, loneliness and smallness
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Against activism: Paul Kingsnorth’s Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist
The author of The Wake voices his disillusionment with green politics – but it’s an argument at risk of bumping into…
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The Blood Miracles: Pills, thrills and bellyaches
Lisa McInerney's prose is as vivd at capturing sensory phenomena as conveying quirk of thought.
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The Incredible String Band’s bohemian rhapsody
Mike Heron's memoir of the hippy trend-setters shows their extraordinary influence on the 60s music scene.
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Tears on my pillow: Secrets, crimes and schooling of a ruling class
Alex Renton examines the disturbing brutality of boarding school life.
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Out of time: F Scott Fitzgerald and an America in decline
The last remaining uncollected stories and a new biography show the great novelist’s grasp of history and his place…
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Sadiq Khan: “Why give up the best job in the world to be Labour leader?“
A year after taking the hot seat at City Hall, the London Mayor talks housing, transport, boxing and Brexit.
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Why the Tories keep winning
Inside the world's most ruthless - and successful - political party
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The lost boy
The impact of losing a brother at a young age, and a bid to reconstruct the events surrounding his…
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The old man and the mountain
The 85-year-old Nepalese adventurer who died on Everest earlier this month climbed because he had "to do something, and this is what…
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The Handmaid’s Tale: Dystopian dread in the new golden age of television
The new adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel has captured a moment.
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Commons Confidential: Diane “Abacus” Abbott’s explosion
Labour shadow home secretary's gaffe failed to overshadow May's Brexit bombshell
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Paula Radcliffe is wrong to fight for her world record – no athlete should be defined by a number
The running legend shouldn't sweat plans to reset athletics world records from before 2005.
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There is a new consensus in Germany – Brexit should be clean, and Britain should pay for it
Where German pragmatism and prosperity were once best served by a closer relationship with London, now they depend on…
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Diary: The summer’s musical promise, the withering of the BBC, and universities after Brexit
"Ahead of us, the summer is thick with musical promise."
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The useless rich, the Tories’ futile energy “cap”, and an honourable way out for Corbyn
Peter Wilby's First Thoughts.
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Believe it or not, but the Tories are running an energetic election campaign – you just can’t see it
The party is eschewing high-profile appearances in favour of targeted ads online.
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Leader: The post-liberal PM
Theresa May's post-Thatcherite approach to politics is baffling those on both the left and right
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Leader: Taxing times
We need fair and innovative solutions to the fiscal challenges facing the UK, and a tax on wealth and static assets should…
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