Kyoto gives voice to the urgency of the climate crisis
Soho Place’s perceptive and absorbing production shrewdly reminds its audience that there is nothing more exciting than saving the world.
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The White Lotus is as good and twisted as ever
Thanks to our sharp-eyed puppetmaster Mike White, this third series is an intensely satisfying slow burn.
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Labour’s belated bid for definition
Keir Starmer has discovered that technocratic management is not enough – his party needs political leadership.
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Politics in the age of the chiefs of staff
Advisers like Dominic Cummings and Morgan McSweeney might become the story – but real power always lies with the leader.
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The British public was wise to Labour’s deportation videos
Also this week: Rupert Murdoch charms the White House, while the Maga-sphere’s assaults on US media intensify.
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South Korea’s chaos politics
Conspiracy, power grabs and violence threaten the country’s democracy.
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This England: Right tools for the dog
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Katharine Birbalsingh: “They’re going to destroy our schools”
The outspoken headteacher believes Bridget Phillipson’s reforms are an attack on educational freedom. She is ready for the fight.
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Labour’s Reformation
Under threat from the populist right, Keir Starmer is forging a hard new politics.
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Bridget Jones after Mr Darcy
This fourth instalment in the series – which follows Bridget after the death of her husband – is the most…
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The myth of a noble America
The US’s lofty rhetoric has long been at odds with its sordid practice.
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The long reign of the Caesars
Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.
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The woman who made the rape kit
This story of Martha Goddard’s forensic method does more than reclaim her role in history – it gives her a…
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The contested life of Roger Casement
The Irish nationalist was caught in the fault lines between empire and nation, colonised and coloniser, public face and private…
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A trade war with China won’t help Trump
His tariffs could hurt Americans as much as the countries he is targeting.
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Subscriber of the week: Madeleine Sage
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Why we should always expect the worst
The BBC podcast At Your Own Peril explores the history of risk and the importance of disaster planning.
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Bridget Jones’s hollow feminism
The novels portrayed the working woman of the Nineties as a hot mess. By laughing at her, we laughed at…
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Thought experiment 7: The Veil of Ignorance
Rawlsian social justice is the bedrock of contemporary liberalism.
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The wisdom of residents’ associations
There is a term used in the council for people like this: solutionisers.
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