The age of hyper-globalisation is ending
As competing geopolitical blocs emerge, countries are increasingly turning to regional allies for trade and financial security.
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The idiot rich are taking over our cities – and our culture
Why the Supreme Court's decision on the Tate Modern is bad news for London. Plus: Lydia Tár, audiobooks, and rowdy…
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An Everywoman on her way up
Funny Woman is a broad, old-fashioned comedy about an aspiring female comic in Sixties London with an indisputable star at…
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The decline of the One Nation Tory
That Rishi Sunak is under pressure to pursue a Trussite agenda is a reflection of how narrow the Conservatives’ ideological…
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Rishi Sunak, the man who isn’t there
As the Prime Minister dithers, his foes advance and Britain declines.
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A queer kind of poetry
This bittersweet, beautiful programme highlights odes to relationships between two men or two women.
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Psychic Sisters’ Jayne Wallace: “I open my crown chakra and throw out a beam of light”
The Essex clairvoyant – a hit on Dragons’ Den – is finding a UK market for Goop-like wellness with a…
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Albert Namatjira: outsider of the outback
Only in his paintings could the Aboriginal artist overcome the prejudice of white Australia.
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A reckoning for Silicon Valley
Malcolm Harris’s new book shows how Californian capitalism has thrived by exploiting an unequal world. But could the “Palo Alto…
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The blurred ethics of memoir
Blake Morrison’s account of sibling tragedy passes its moral questions on to the reader.
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Asia’s dangerous new arms race
Russia’s war and China’s military build-up are provoking an unprecedented change in Japan’s approach to its defence.
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How dating a couple set me free
Falling for two women has forced me to reassess the boundaries between friendship and love.
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The NS Poem: Creator, we need an answer
A new poem by the Russian poet Larissa Miller, translated by Rowan Williams, on the first anniversary of the war…
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Liz Truss’s essay shows she is as deluded as ever
The danger is how many Tories will agree with the former prime minister’s bizarre logic.
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I am plagued by illness – and my medicine of choice is Columbo
Being poorly these days involves actual discomfort. I would toss and turn if I could – but even that is…
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If only I still had the desk my father made me, my magnum opus would be written by now
I let that unwieldy piece of Douglas fir go as a teenager in a house move – not grasping then…
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Dacher Keltner Q&A: “I’m not wired for happiness”
The Berkeley psychologist on growing up in Laurel Canyon in the Sixties and why you should do your homework.
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Pamela Anderson’s fantasy life
In her memoir Love, Pamela the model and actress reveals that despite the trauma and abuse she still sees her…
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In Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, sexual assault survivors refuse silence
In this Mennonite #MeToo drama, the victims of male violence must choose between faith and their desire for justice.
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Victory City: Salman Rushdie’s story factory
Rushdie’s new novel, completed before his attack, is a fable that displays his overweening faith in narrative.
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