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Britain deserves better in 2024
A Labour government would change the social atmosphere for the better and offer the hope of a new start.
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Writing for children is hard, and they need good books more than ever
Children are ravenously hungry for ideas. We writers have a duty to provide them.
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Subscriber of the Week: Jack Frost
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Hana Videen: “It’s a pretty silly idea that there’s a pure English”
The author on the evolution of language.
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The hypocrisy of Rishi’s Right
Also this week: the power of the Nativity, and why books are like batteries.
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The visions of Werner Herzog
In creating wild and strange new worlds, the German film-maker reveals the truth of our own.
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What it means to be German
Frank Trentmann’s history reveals how modern Germany found a new moral purpose after the horrors of Nazism.
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Inside the erotic mind
Psychoanalyst Darian Leader’s study of the motivations behind sex and desire is irredeemably bonkers.
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Joseph Roth’s lessons for Putin’s Russia
A century ago The Radetzky March captured the break-up of Austria-Hungary. Could it also predict the fall of Vladimir Putin’s…
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Kate Forbes: The rooted nomad
Will Kate Forbes ultimately be forced to choose between politics and God?
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This England: Puffed-up pastry
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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The Tories are split into three camps and a shadow leadership contest is under way
Heading into an election year, the Conservative Party is in a dismal state – and Rishi Sunak is in panic…
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In 2024, Labour must offer hope
If all Keir Starmer’s party promises is a second age of austerity, voters will soon abandon it.
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Elon Musk’s death drive
The tech billionaire built a world that he could rule – then allowed it to destroy him.
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Lapland: a prisoner of geography
Threatened by Russia as well as climate change, Finland’s northernmost region has become a front line of western Europe’s existential…
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What it means to be Jewish now
With anti-Semitism rising and divisions on the left over the Gaza war, writers reflect on being Jewish now.
Jews in the diaspora must resist the inhumanity being done by Israel in our name
Jewish history in the 20th century testifies that suffering is a meagre moral teacher – but we learn its lessons…
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The innocent are innocent, whichever side of the Hamas-Israel war they are on
I am an Israeli that knows you can’t defeat an ideology with brute force – there must be a better…
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Both Netanyahu’s cabinet and Hamas see this crisis as an opportunity
The Israeli left’s turn to the right comes from its sense of betrayal by the world’s left – especially by…
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