The cathedrals courting controversy
Also this week: the meaning of Easter, exploring forgiveness, and doing battle with moss.
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How low will Sunak go to keep power?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The last crimes of Caravaggio
Within weeks of finishing his final painting, a murder scene, the artist was himself dead.
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The farmers’ revolt against green politics
Across Europe and North America, neglected urban and rural citizens are aligning in a new class struggle.
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Inside Britain’s asylum backlog
Rishi Sunak claims he has cleared the “legacy” waiting list of claims and is emptying hotels. Thousands are still waiting.
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Spring reflection: Heeding the dawn chorus
Every year the first blackbird feels more poignant, its notes pregnant with nostalgia.
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Letter of the week: In search of empathy
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Bidenism comes to Britain
Rachel Reeves, Labour’s chancellor-in-waiting and chief ideologue, aims to establish a new economic consensus with an active state at its…
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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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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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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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