From Windrush to the Post Office, I find a Britain losing its faith in fair play
At the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry I met Mark Kelly, who has lost everything he worked for.
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The West’s rivals everywhere are exploiting its vulnerabilities
From Africa to Latin America, competing power blocs are gaining from liberal democracies’ stalled growth and lack of focus.
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The era of easy peace is over
With Houthi attacks, war in Gaza and Ukraine, and the return of Trump, the wider West must spend more on…
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The Polish Revolution
Timothy Garton Ash’s account of the Solidarity movement shows how Poland has resisted Russian control, and led me to a…
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How to reform the House of Lords
Also this week: finding peace in weekly Mass, and what Winston Churchill knew.
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From Colin Barrett to Hannah Ritchie: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Deterring Armageddon by Peter Apps and Missing Persons, or My Grandmother's Secrets by Clair Wills.
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How Israel’s war spread to the Red Sea
Yemen’s Houthis are allies of Iran but not proxies. They believe they are carrying out the will of God.
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Donald Trump and the politics of retribution
After his emphatic victory in the Iowa Republican primary, the former president believes he is destined for a second term.…
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The Democrats must forge a political centre based on class, not identity
The party urgently needs to reconnect with the needs of ordinary people in conservative and rural parts of the US.
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Tory divisions over Rwanda reflect the wider anti-migrant mood across Europe
As far-right parties surge on the continent, Britain’s staunch multiculturalism is starting to look a little lonely.
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József Debreczeni’s letter from the land of the dead
A rediscovered memoir from an Auschwitz survivor offers powerful lessons for our own reckonings with the Holocaust.
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Ron DeSantis’s campaign is already lost
The governor of Florida wanted to be seen as “Trump without the chaos” – but is more “Trump without the…
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Improve your finances with a New Year cash diet
Forget healthy eating and drinking this January – abstain from card and online spending instead.
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The Wizard of the Kremlin takes us inside the mind of Putin’s spin-master
Giuliano da Empoli’s fictionalised portrait of Vladislav Surkov dramatises the birth of the post-truth world.
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Richard Hawley Q&A: “It’s sickening what this government gets away with”
The songwriter and musician on Gretsch guitars, the benefits of failure, and hailing from a long line of NHS nurses.
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His quiet charisma bowled me over, and he became a friend for life
When we were young we orbited P-J the way the planets orbit the sun. And now he has gone.
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The Scala was a place with no boundaries, our teenage sanctuary
A film about the cult all-night cinema and a memoir by my friend take me back: how motivated we all…
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22 new books for 2024
From a Keir Starmer biography to new fiction by Ali Smith – here are the books to look out for…
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Music in a time of war
The Ukrainian pianist Sasha Grynyuk and the Russian violinist Yuri Zhislin on playing together during the conflict.
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Subscriber of the week: Gary Sweet
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