On the trail of human traffickers
Radio 4’s To Catch a Scorpion takes us inside the brutal illegal immigration industry.
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Whatever happened to the language of peace?
Pope Francis is the only world leader who seems prepared to denounce war.
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In search of the green and pleasant land
The English revere the natural world – so why do we allow its destruction?
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Labour is yet to win over the north
Also this week: red-on-red mayor wars, lessons from the locals, and Michael Gove’s hanging baskets.
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Letter of the week: The atrophy of office
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The Tories’ death spiral
Rishi Sunak has failed to provide his party with the coherent leadership it needs.
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Tory plotters thicken as Sunak clings on
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The Tory doomscroll
Dismayed by the local elections, Conservatives fear the party faces not only electoral defeat but a crisis of identity.
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How the SNP lost itself in hyper-liberalism
Scotland’s hegemonic progressive regime was a chimera. Labour should take note.
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Alba de Céspedes’s life of resistance
Informed by the novelist’s fight against Fascism in Italy, Her Side of the Story is a remarkable investigation into selfhood.
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How to fix English cricket
This year’s Wisden almanack describes a game in desperate pursuit of both profit and purpose.
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Pet Shop Boys: “Labour could do with an infusion of idealism”
The pop duo on Keir Starmer, the royals, Marvel and the word “queer”.
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The birth of the Blue Rider group
The first comprehensive exhibition of the group’s works in Britain since 1960 shows how Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter, Franz Marc,…
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Revisiting Richard and Linda Thompson’s folk-rock masterpiece
Fifty years on, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight retains a spartan beauty – and a feeling of…
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Subscriber of the week: Chris Lawer
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Miranda July Q&A: “You have to feel the body’s needs as if you were a plant”
The American film-maker and author on avoiding “scarcity mindset” and how to be efficient (but not annoying).
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The unbendable rules of where to sit on buses
A pleasant journey is rendered suboptimal by other passengers. It is a situation for which the British are ill-prepared.
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The spectacle of runaway horses in London was eerily poignant
For a brief moment, animals that are otherwise trapped in lives of ceremony and discipline were free.
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Hofesh Shechter’s From England with Love questions national identity
The Southbank Centre dance production is a paean to Englishness, blending Purcell with rock and electronics.
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Disney’s Shardlake series is tediously anachronistic
Organic produce, everyday sexism, and cartoonish monks: I can’t take anything in this mist-shrouded adaptation seriously.
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