The lost art of the landline call
Also this week: the ghost of Princess Di, and the end of the Caramac bar.
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What’s printed on Cameron’s ministerial briefs?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: Peerless foreign secretaries
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The West’s dominance is a dangerous delusion
Hubris and ignorance might prove decisive in its proxy wars in Ukraine and Israel, and in its economic contest with…
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A blunderer in high office
The Covid Inquiry has revealed that Boris Johnson treated Covid with insouciance, even after its lethal potential was known.
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Keir Starmer needs a coherent plan for immigration
The public anxiety about borders is real, and it will still exist under a Labour government.
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The everyday economists guiding Rachel Reeves
The shadow chancellor’s history of women economists raises profound questions about the future of work.
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Bill Gates is bad for humanity
By “maximising” lives, the billionaire philanthropist is making ours worse.
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Sophie Chandauka’s Q&A: “Eminem’s ‘Lose Yourself’ gets me in the zone”
The entrepreneur on our failure to regulate AI, the West Wing and dancing with her father to Abba.
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If you watch football with me, you need to respect my rules
Watching a game is a private pleasure, I don’t want to listen to any banal observations – I have enough…
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From Barbra Streisand to Michael Mann: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Peter Cowie’s biography of Ingmar Bergman and Stuffed by Pen Vogler.
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Sarina Wiegman’s mystery playbook
In her book the Lionesses coach shows composure and compassion – but the art of football management remains a puzzle.
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Should Britain pay slavery reparations?
Laura Trevelyan and Clive Lewis represent “two sides of a horrible shared history” in Heirs of Enslavement.
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My sobriety ended when Waitrose put its port on offer
I nearly made it two days in a row, but the deal on Graham’s Late Bottled Vintage was simply too…
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Ridley Scott’s fast and furious Napoleon biopic
In this ruthlessly efficient and entertaining epic, starring Joaquin Phoenix, facts are beside the point.
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Netflix’s The Crown turns tawdry
Peter Morgan’s royal epic concludes with ghosts and banalities in a touchy-feely sixth series.
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Subscriber of the week: Matt Andrews
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Gaza and Ukraine have divided the world into geopolitical tribes
From universalists to Westernists, there are common patterns holding the views on the two conflicts together.
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In public the US supports Israel, but in private pressure mounts
Washington is pushing Israel on its postwar intentions, after Antony Blinken stated that the country can’t occupy Gaza.
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What is Labour Together?
The organisation has been accused of being “secretive group”, but its original purpose was to reanimate the centre left.
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