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John Sullivan: “Vladimir Putin does not want an off-ramp”
The former US ambassador to Moscow on dealing with the Russian president face to face, and what the Kremlin’s next…
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Mariana Mazzucato: “Consultancies depend on weak governments”
The economist and author of The Big Con reflects on why capitalism is broken.
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This is how Putin loses the war
In an exclusive interview, Volodymyr Zelensky’s adviser Mykhailo Podolyak lays out how a Ukrainian victory would unfold.
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Why the battle for the Union is far from over
The Scottish independence movement has stalled – but the Union won’t be secure until Westminster remakes a decaying constitutional settlement.
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How to remake the Union
The path is open to Labour, the founding party of devolution, to offer a reconfigured United Kingdom.
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Sleep has always proved elusive, but at least I have nothing to get up for
Some people use the time afforded by insomnia to worry about things, but I prefer a good book and a…
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Could I become Christian in a year?
Reading the Bible is tempting me towards belief.
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Bernie Sanders: the president who never was
The politician’s new work is a limited and soporific harangue. How did he twice get close to becoming leader of…
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Sharon Olds’ Q&A: “I wished I could travel back to take Keats penicillin”
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet on the Obamas, Aretha Franklin and the death of the Amazon.
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Sarah Lucas: “I didn’t want to spend my life angry”
The artist on feminism, the importance of humour, and being a Young British Artist at 60.
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I just might have been a top tennis player but my teenage body had other ideas
When after two years of lessons I still lost to my brother I gave up – not recognising the impact…
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How Joyland was deemed an “un-Islamic” love story
Sadim Sadiq’s film about a married man and a trans woman was censored in Pakistan – but has won acclaim…
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The myths of “the north”
Alex Niven’s The North Will Rise Again is a missed chance – a sustained swipe at a government long gone…
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Damien Chazelle’s Babylon is a spectacular mess
This take on the dark side of 1930s Hollywood is full of dazzling set pieces – but collapses under their…
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Tár is a crafty, cryptic take on art and morality in the online age
Cate Blanchett stars as a master composer caught in a #MeToo scandal in Todd Field’s genre-bending film.
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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 surprising delights of monotonous meals
For an entire university term I lunched on jacket potatoes with beans and cheese, as why change a winning formula?
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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” Rishi…
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