Putin’s fractured world
The Russian president is using the wars in Ukraine and Gaza to divide the West and the Global South.
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Dune: Part Two depicts a world of ceaseless struggle – like our own
Resource scarcity, neo-feudalism, perpetual conflict: Denis Villeneuve’s film is not a fantasy but an epiphany of the present.
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A boyhood built on fear
The cruelties of Maidwell Hall boarding school, described by Charles Spencer in his memoir, have blighted my adult life.
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Among Conservatives, the mood has never been so grim
Sunak’s team can’t get themselves heard, and most of what they say vanishes forever.
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Ed Davey: “The Lib Dems and Labour aren’t fighting each other”
The Lib Dem leader on his affinity with Keir Starmer, the rise of Reform UK and what John Rawls knew.
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The luxe vapidity of Palm Royale
Allison Janney is at her best in this glitzy series about feminism and Sixties Florida. But it should be much…
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Delusions of immortality
In Why We Die, Venki Ramakrishnan demolishes the crackpots and billionaires behind the anti-ageing industry.
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Subscriber of the week: David Colyer
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When your friend is stabbed, your own problems become mere annoyances
If I have a superpower it is cheering people up, but N— already has a staggering capacity for honesty, survival…
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Joelle Taylor Q&A: “I’d like to see dinner ladies take over parliament”
The poet on being raised by TV, the inspirational Linda Bellos, and why writing is like archaeology.
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The cult of Townes Van Zandt
Hardship haunted his short life, but a celebration of what would have been his 80th birthday reveals the country troubadour’s…
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When Europe went Angelica Kauffman mad
How the first female painter admitted into the Royal Academy became one of the great celebrities of her age.
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How Big Tech rewired childhood
Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation shows how smartphones have damaged the teenage mind – and urges us to fight back.
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This England: Paws clause paused
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Love’s true test is being cast adrift on a tiny raft in the Pacific
An amazing tale of survival reminds me how incredibly hard it is to find love out there in the world.
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How Amber Heard lost
Who Trolled Amber?, a new investigative series from Tortoise, asks: was the social media response to the trial a coordinated…
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Accused: The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax terrified me
Channel 4’s chilling account of a paedophile scare shows the very modern hell unleashed by online conspiracy theories.
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War and the West Bank
Settler violence in the occupied territory is intensifying, and Palestinian deaths are mounting.
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The NS Poem: The Late Stelliferous Era
A new poem by Will Eaves.
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How a radical priest forged my politics
Gustavo Gutiérrez’s revelatory book showed me that faith and economics could not be separated.
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