The EU is becoming an engine of war
Building the union was never a “peace project”. But European hard power is now its leaders’ greatest priority.
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The White House’s leaked group-chat disaster
Also this week: Rachel Reeves’ digital tax delusion and X as an arm of US foreign policy in Turkey.
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This England: Well, this is hawkward…
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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How gender ideology corrupted government data
Blurring the line between sex and gender has serious consequences.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah’s lessons in humanity
Theft, the Nobel Prize winner’s new novel, is full of wisdom and free of judgement.
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Mark Fairhurst: “I do not fear the law. I will accept the consequences”
The national chair of the Prison Officers’ Association on the next prison officers’ strike.
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Putin’s endgame
With a fractured West and a pliable US president, he sees no reason to abandon his war on Ukraine.
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The Yoko Ono problem
As David Sheff’s new biography reveals, decades of suspicion aimed at the provocative artist, musician and widow have obscured her…
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The cyclical history of abortion rights
The past has been marked by periods of acceptance and intolerance of women’s bodily autonomy. Can it offer lessons for…
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This City Is Ours: a highly superior Scouse Dallas
This series, starring Sean Bean, is the perfect combination of menace and farce. And the accents, the clothes, the caterpillar…
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Munch the social animal
The painter’s portraits reveal less a tortured loner than a man who thrived in company.
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Joshua Oppenheimer’s surreal apocalyptic musical The End
This strange film, starring Tilda Swinton, satirises our collective delusion in the face of the climate crisis.
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The fascist afterlife of The Four Seasons
Vivaldi’s masterwork, forgotten after his death, found new popularity when it was co-opted by Italian nationalists.
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Snow White in the age of inoffence
Disney’s live-action remake of its 1937 animation updates the material for modern audiences – and falls flat.
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Survival of the dishiest
The useless beauty of male birds is evidence of something evolutionists long struggled to accept: female agency.
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Now’s the time for a financial spring clean
The new financial year brings price hikes – and some estimates put the extra annual cost at £600 per household.
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Paul Brady’s songs of conflict
The Northern Irish songwriter – Bob Dylan’s “secret hero” – on making morally complex music in the time of the…
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It’s always sunny in Alicante
The cuisine is excellent and the wine so cheap it makes me want to cry. But there’s one thing Spain…
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This England: Dressed for success
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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