I finally understand that friendships change
Life got in the way of the fantasies my closest friends and I created in childhood – but now I…
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From Neel Mukherjee to Gavin Stamp: new books reviewed in short
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Subscriber of the Week: Eamonn Rafferty
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Josie Long Q&A: “I wish Keir Starmer had a functioning spine”
The stand-up comedian on Joanna Newsom, expressionism, and the dream of being a forest ranger.
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A reckoning for the British Museum
Haunted by scandal, the museum has become a “black hole” for artefacts. It’s time to bring it down, says Noah…
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The contested afterlife of Amy Winehouse
In her life and music, she was beyond confessional. Can Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biopic tell us more about her than she…
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This England: Del Boy’s Digs
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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What went wrong with The Regime?
In HBO’s political satire, every line sinks like a stone, and every episode lasts for a year.
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Alex Garland’s Civil War is his sharpest, most brutal dystopia
The British director’s film imagines a present day America that has fallen into internecine violence.
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Women writers and the lure of deep England
The country lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann were studies in class, conflict and creativity.
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The cost of climbing Everest
A new Radio 4 series reveals the stark and deadly reality of conquering the world’s highest mountain.
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The West’s useful idiots
The solipsism and self-censorship of the campus intelligentsia has spread throughout society. But demand for instruction in progressive doublespeak is…
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How the National Trust won the war on woke
The charity has outsmarted and outmanoeuvred its critics, who are all too easy to caricature as furious cranks and bigots.
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My mother-in-law’s life ended as it began: in a Gazan refugee camp
The last time I saw her was when I left for Egypt. Now, I watch from afar as my family,…
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Rob Henderson: “I guess there is survivor’s guilt”
The writer and thinker on reliving his traumatic childhood, campus cancel culture, and the rise of “luxury beliefs”.
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Priti situations vacant: Tories plot to install Patel as PM
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: Capital errors
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Sold down the river
England’s broken water industry is a case study in the dangers of dogmatic privatisation. It is time to rethink our…
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Inside the rise of Ziggy Stardust
How a hairdresser from Beckenham entered the court of David Bowie.
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How Britain legalised crime
The UK’s neglected towns have become a haven for criminals while residents try to retain local pride – and police…
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