This England: The great escape
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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How to write for radio
What I learned as a judge of the Charles Parker Prize for best student audio feature.
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Piglets: ITV’s “offensive” police comedy
This series set in a police training academy is by turns laugh-out-loud funny and simply embarrassing.
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Romance on the run in the Old West
Kevin Barry’s new novel The Heart in Winter sets passion against violence on the brutal American frontier.
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About Dry Grasses is quintessential slow cinema
This Turkish film is deeply challenging, even boring at times. But it is pretty much a masterpiece.
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Beethoven and the Romantic spirit
The composer’s Third Cello Sonata, an underrated masterwork, cuts up the musical form and reassembles it anew.
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The 1924 Paris Olympics: when athletes inspired art
The Fitzwilliam Museum’s latest show highlights an era that saw the sporting and artistic worlds converge.
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The remoralisation of politics is long overdue
For common decency to prevail, we must understand the economic, social and psychological pressures that influence the way we behave.
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For those graduating this summer: consider the generations to come
A university education gives you disproportionate freedom, power and potential. It’s a real responsibility.
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The vice-president vs Donald Trump
Is Kamala Harris up to the job?
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The secrets of the heath
To see the beauty of these dwindling acres, you must focus on what is at your feet.
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Stuart Weir: The editor who shaped a country
In 1988, the New Statesman’s campaigning leader devised Charter 88 – a call to arms that radically transformed Britain’s political…
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Labour’s anti-intellectual moment
The past three decades have seen the Everymanification of British politics.
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Marc Bloch: a warning from Europe’s past
According to Emmanuel Macron, the best analysis of the dangers facing the continent today comes from a French historian who…
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The fragile state
Why the British seem increasingly incapable of governing themselves.
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EU leaders are pushing the hard right to form a united front
Sidelining Giorgia Meloni may have unwittingly taught her how to work around the union’s rules.
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Can Kamala Harris save America?
The vice-president is the Democrats’ last best hope of beating Donald Trump.
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Labour’s stormy summer
Britain is poised between hope and fear as Keir Starmer surveys the challenges ahead.
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The best children’s books for summer 2024
Find dreams of better worlds in new books for young readers.
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Joe Biden inflicted avoidable chaos on the Democrats
The US president’s substantial patriotism was ultimately outweighed by his vanity.
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