The chaotic return of the Trump circus, and why Americans can’t see the point of King Charles III
Despite facing criminal investigations, the former president’s poll ratings are rising. He is a master at gaming the media.
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The right have a secret: they are the true snowflakes
Culture warriors can’t help but display the behaviour they seek to criticise. Listen to them, then throw their words back…
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Signs of the times
China and Russia are committed to upending the US-led international order. How should the West respond?
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What the adder means
The attention you bring to bear on the landscape as you look for Britain’s only venomous snake is transformative.
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Letter from Kinmen: Taiwan is already under attack
The West’s focus on a Chinese invasion ignores the real struggle.
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With No 10 now in calmer hands, it will no longer be the focus of national contempt
It is time for the critical domestic issues plaguing the UK to be addressed, such as poor housing stock and…
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This England: On the silk road
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Lucy Easthope: “We are all disaster survivors now”
The leading expert on emergency planning and disaster recovery speaks about life after the pandemic.
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George Eliot’s marriage plot
In her work, the novelist developed a radical philosophy of relationships. In her life, she put it into practice.
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Joan Bakewell: “I can live with death – how odd”
As the broadcaster approaches 90, she reflects on her mother, the media and “her version” of her affair with Harold…
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How Christopher Wren built Britain
He became the nation’s greatest architect – but studied astronomy and anatomy first. To Wren, building was a three-dimensional science.
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The IRA’s blank assassin
The Brighton bomb killed five people but failed to hit its target, Margaret Thatcher.
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The undoing of Nicola Sturgeon
The SNP reached its electoral zenith under the First Minister but she leaves office humbled by Westminster and alienated from…
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Maggie O’Farrell’s Q&A: “If I wasn’t a writer I would be irritable and thwarted”
The author and Women’s Prize winner on her hero Tove Jansson, Aneurin Bevan and her elderly cat.
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I have little love for Boris Johnson and am mortified to realise we have traits in common
Amid the greased piglet’s bluster, bloviating and shameless evasions, I see something terribly familiar.
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Where are all the good books on sex?
Polly Barton’s “oral history” of porn shows the myopia of cultural criticism drawn from personal experience. We desperately need a…
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The BBC’s new Great Expectations is so bad it should be illegal
Steven Knight’s crass, sexed-up version of the novel strips it of all its humour and tenderness. Does he think he’s…
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A childlike wonder at the world’s everyday beauty is best left to grown-ups
I feel the more experience we have of the world – not less – the more deeply we feel what…
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The limits of humanism
How do we reconcile our capacity for good and evil? Humanist thinking does not have all the answers.
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From Skin & Blister
A new poem by Blake Morrison.
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