I went to Bali specifically to avoid my family but flew home early just to be with them
For a few days I try to continue with my trip, but I no longer care about water ceremonies and…
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Jess Phillips’s Diary: Building up to power, Rishi Sunak’s healthcare, and why I would decree beards for all men
After months of turmoil the return to Westminster feels a bit muted – but back I go, well, as soon…
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From Tom Crewe to Caro Giles: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring A Writer’s Diary by Toby Litt and a study of conducting by Alice Farnham.
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Prince Harry’s war on the Windsors
How a fraternal dispute became a full-blown existential crisis for the monarchy.
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Ben Wallace is on high alert after Prince Harry’s Taliban kill-count revelation
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Angela Merkel’s failures serve as a warning to British leaders
The former German chancellor’s short-termism created an unsustainable economic model. Will the UK avoid the same trap?
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Exposing the internet’s false prophets
Helen Lewis’s Radio 4 investigation charts the rise of today’s tech-led snake-oil merchants.
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How Janis Joplin set the template for rock’s outcasts
The Sixties icon, who would be turning 80 in January, belonged to an era when personal suffering was viscerally bound…
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Bret Easton Ellis’s death wish
The Shards, the author’s first novel in 13 years, is an Eighties-set autofiction thriller that plays on our cultural addiction…
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Leader: The sick man of Europe
As Britons face the worst access to healthcare across the continent, the crisis in the NHS can no longer be…
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We rely on the NHS to be there for us in a crisis – but it is caught in a crisis of its own
Behind every 999 call is an understanding that someone will help when we are helpless – but that trust is…
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Stop dithering, British Museum – give the Elgin Marbles back
Why trustees need to act now. Plus: political interventions at the ENO, the National Gallery and the Tate.
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Prince Harry’s Spare is a deeply uncomfortable read
Throughout the book’s 400 pages runs a single theme: the need for closure after a lifetime of repressed trauma.
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Prince Harry’s ITV interview revealed more about posh British men than the tabloids or the royals
This interview was the prerogative of two ex-public school boys. The rest of us, less privileged, can only watch.
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The secret lives of Katherine Mansfield
A century after the writer’s death, a new biography shows how she withstood colonial prejudice and terminal illness to produce…
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How the world turned global
Jonathan Sperber’s The Age of Interconnection surveys the second half of the 20th century but fails to explain the ideas…
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Letter from Ukraine: new year, same war
The Ukrainian novelist writes about ringing in 2023 amid drone attacks.
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The NS Poem: Tender
A new poem by Sarah Fletcher.
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Nietzsche, narwhals and the burden of consciousness
Justin Gregg’s witty exploration of animal intelligence is a useful guide – but there is more to human life than…
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With the buccal fat fixation we have reached peak insecurity
This year, let’s make a resolution to accept, rather than “improve”, our bodies.
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