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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Subscriber of the week: Murray Rowlands
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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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Hannah Barnes: Inside the collapse of the Tavistock gender clinic
The Newsnight journalist on her book Time to Think, and why she had to tell the story of the children…
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Letter of the week: Our duty to Afghanistan
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The war within Pink Floyd
How a Shakespearean battle between Dave Gilmour and Roger Waters erupted over art, money and geopolitics.
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This England: Delivered from danger
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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From Mark Hyatt to Nona Fernández: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Killjoy by Jo Cheetham and The Treasuries by Clare Bucknell.
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Can Britain ever rejoin the EU?
First, Remainers must understand what a future UK membership would actually entail.
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The strange death of the centre right
In Western democracies conventional conservativism is foundering. How did this once-dominant political force become so diminished?
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The anger and hope the earthquake left behind
As the death toll in Syria and Turkey passes 36,000, survivors question whether some deaths could have been prevented.
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The end of the Brexit taboo
Only the most ideological Leaver – of which there are a diminishing number – would contend that Brexit has done…
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Nicola Sturgeon is running out of time – and her rivals know it
As the First Minister’s popularity declines, her grip on her party and the country is slipping.
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Andrew Murray’s Diary: Back to my old Commons beat, recalling the bellowing-booth and lessons from the Iraq War
I am reprising my role as the Morning Star’s parliamentary reporter – and hoping there are no problems with my…
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Football remains spectacular, but the trust between clubs and the public is broken
The game’s richest teams have disfigured the economic terrain of the sport – but a reckoning is on the horizon.
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