An audience with the King, London’s pest problem, and why the English are afraid of the Scots
There was a hoopla in Colchester for the royal visit, with small children waving flags and a brass band.
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Cultural change is not enough to save the Met. Its very purpose must be overhauled
The blistering Casey report identifies failings across nearly all the force’s departments.
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The Cockfields is a genius, black-hearted British social comedy
I was hysterical with laughter watching this Diane Morgan-starring series from David Earl and Joe Wilkinson.
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How Noël Coward became the archetypal English success
A new biography shows how he began life as a revolutionary and ended it hosting the Queen Mother.
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Why we should break up the Met
The “bad apples” defence does not explain why toxic people are attracted to the police.
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Fifty years after Picasso’s death, we still struggle with the figure of the monstrous genius
The Musée Picasso Paris’s collaboration with Paul Smith attempts to reframe the great artist. Plus: another backlash for the BBC.
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Over Scotch eggs I am, to my shame, schooled in “The Pardoner’s Tale”
My friend Ben tells me the plot in such a way that I am suddenly inspired to read it, in…
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Thomas Hertog’s Q&A: “Stephen Hawking was the freest man I have known”
The cosmologist on learning to swim in Cambridge, travelling the Silk Roads, and why the future is bothering him.
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Who might I be now if, during my religious upbringing, I had never heard the word “sin”?
We were encouraged to have “accountability partners” to whom we would confess our “darkest” acts and desires.
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The feminist case against progress
From sex-positivity to abortion, liberal advances have dehumanised women, argues Mary Harrington – but “nature” is not always as kind as…
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The parent trap: how Britain became a very, very expensive place to raise a child
Money alone won’t fix the childcare crisis. Rethinking work and motherhood might.
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The rise of Mia Goth mania
In the horror films Pearl and Infinity Pool, the 29-year-old actor delivers two pleasingly unhinged performances.
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The long shadow of the Iraq War
How do you mourn soldiers killed in an “unjust” war? For years the town of Wootton Bassett showed us how.
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The Iraq War exposed the liberal delusion of remaking the world
The fall of Saddam Hussein was not the end that had been promised – it was the image of the…
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I came to Iraq as an idealistic volunteer and was nearly killed in my first week
Working in Kirkuk, I fell in love with the country and its people. But the West’s intervention brought devastation and…
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“There will be blood” inside Labour’s HQ once “Rottweiler” Sue Gray starts as chief of staff
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The US is readying itself for another moral crusade, this time against China
The drumbeat of war is growing louder in Washington, where the political class is transfixed by Beijing.
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Subscriber of the Week: Simon Oakes
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In its pursuit of Russian regime change, the West is doomed to repeat the errors of the Iraq War
A new generation of liberal hawks views Ukraine as the pivotal battlefield in a global struggle for democracy.
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After Iraq: the great unravelling
The breakdown of the West’s rules-based order began with the invasion of 2003.
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