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Stuck at home ill, thank goodness I have football’s follies to keep me entertained
Singing to mock a record signing, a mighty Wolves victory, and sympathy for Antonio Conte over the pain of gallstones.
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Why the fall of Nicola Sturgeon offers little reason for unionist triumphalism
The enduring strength of the SNP is not just a morbid symptom of British decline: it is a rebuke to…
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At MoMa, I saw an artwork that moved me – made by a machine
Refik Anadol’s Unsupervised is a glorious introduction to art by artificial intelligence. Plus: the rise of cultural Russophobia.
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Fleishman Is in Trouble is a slick but exhausting portrait of New York wealth
This series belongs to a new big-budget genre of TV that attempts to intellectually flatter viewers who can actually afford…
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In the face of Russia’s aggression, global alliances have proven their indispensability
In 2019 Emmanuel Macron declared that Nato had suffered a “brain death”, but in Munich world leaders showed otherwise.
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Letter from Syria: “We called for urgent help. No one responded”
After more than a decade of devastation inflicted by civil war, Syrians face a new struggle for survival.
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Secrets of the womb
Leah Hazard’s new book shows how this complex, life-giving muscle has been maligned and misunderstood.
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Boris Johnson is plotting to oust Sunak, says George Osborne – and No 10 is worried
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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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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