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Opening the gates of Oxbridge
Also this week: the plundering of the NHS, and a joyous arrival.
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Politicians ignore the Mumsnet manifesto at their peril
It is hard to read the list of policy demands and not reflect that life is getting worse for British…
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“Pro-family” rhetoric and its fascist resonances
Traditional gender roles have propped up authoritarian regimes of the past. In Republicans’ views on women, the echoes are clear.
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Why the West should stop talking about the “rules-based order”
This vague, hypocritical mantra, designed for a US-dominated world that no longer exists, is harming international law.
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Rishi Sunak’s D-Day apology reveals the limits of saying sorry
It isn’t always the hardest word. It’s often the easiest. It can trip off the tongue far too readily.
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What a historic Labour win will mean for Britain
The bigger Keir Starmer’s majority, the faster and more dramatic the impact of his government will be.
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He shall slight them on the beaches… Sunak’s faux pas is a free pass for Cameron
Your weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
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Europe turns right
Parties of the hard right are in the ascendancy across the continent – but their political prospects are difficult to…
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How Europe’s hard right went mainstream
Across the continent, EU leaders have badly misread the nationalist surge.
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The Tories’ fate was decided long before the D-Day blunder
For the Conservatives, the race was probably already lost in January 2023.
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The Ozempic effect
Magic Pill, Johann Hari’s study of the rise of diet drugs, sheds light on our deeply dysfunctional food culture.
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The election debates: as petty and embarrassing as a staff-room squabble
The politicians arguing on BBC and ITV reminded me of the teachers at my comprehensive after too much Mellow Bird’s.
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An assisted cycle through scenic Silesia
How I conquered picturesque Polish volcanoes, e-bikes and endless vegetarian meals.
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Subscriber of the week: Jay Mitra
What do you do? Professor of business enterprise and innovation at the University of Essex. Where do you live? In…
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James Shapiro Q&A: “I’d like to live in 1600s London – just for a week”
The American academic on finding fulfilment in Shakespeare, structuralism and dry-stone walls.
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Queenie is a crude parody of real women
The charmless TV adaptation of Candice Carty-Williams’s novel is full of cliché, cod psychology and faux empowerment.
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Viggo Mortensen’s self-indulgent Western
In The Dead Don’t Hurt, the actor struggles to update an archaic genre.
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This England: Clucking hell
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Rediscovering the bright lights
An old album and a Pet Shop Boys gig remind me of music’s power to refresh memories and forge new…
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