Letter of the week: Why we must make Putin pay
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Esther McVey’s war on rainbow lanyards and homeless prisoners
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The Labour vibe shift
After 14 years of Conservative rule, world leaders, MPs, business and the media are preparing for a new political order.
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From Hari Kunzru to Eugene Rogan: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger and Cypria by Alex Christofi.
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The Great Stink: Britain’s pollution crisis
How privatisation and the pursuit of profit lead to the devastation of England’s waterways.
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The battle for the worst job in America
Donald Trump’s pick for vice-president will be the candidate who can most thoroughly abase themselves before him.
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Mehdi Hasan: “We don’t value Palestinian life”
The combative Zeteo CEO and former MSNBC host on the media’s moral failures.
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The strange death of conservatism
Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s first obituary of Tory England was premature – but now, he says, the party is beyond saving.
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How hormones rule our lives
From sex to eating, birth to body temperature, our physical selves do what our chemical masters tell us.
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Joe Biden is deluded on Rafah
America’s policy on Gaza is based on an alternative reality.
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Bodkin is a very 21st-century media satire
The journalism jokes are the highlight of this comedy thriller, which pokes fun at the clichés of true crime podcasting.
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Inside the mind of Kevin Spacey
Beyond the allegations, Channel 4’s Spacey Unmasked is a brave attempt to explain the actor’s apparent self-loathing.
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Our US road trip seemed cursed. Then we met the flatfoot dancers
With fog and rain ruining the mountain scenery, we desperately needed something to look forward to.
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Data can lead us to the truth or, as Rishi Sunak prefers, distort it
The Prime Minister’s cynical attack on “sick-note culture” was a missed chance to investigate the rise in long-term illness.
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From Willy Vlautin to Corinne Fowler: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring The Bullet: A Memoir by Tom Lee and Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter by Kat Hill.
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This England: Shell-ebrating crustaceans
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Subscriber of the Week: Dan Fryd
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Sarah Perry Q&A: “When was I happiest? When I left the church I was raised in”
The novelist on Rachmaninoff, the short stories of Tessa Hadley, and her lost legal career.
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La Chimera is a charming tale of history and myth
Alice Rohrwacher’s playful, Palme d’Or-nominated film about tomb raiders summons the ghosts of Italy’s past.
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The NS Poem: October 2023
A new poem by John Burnside.
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