Was “Comeback” Cameron second choice for Foreign Secretary?
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Letter of the week: Diverse education
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Murder, she wrote
Nadine Dorries has been ridiculed for alleging that a treacherous “movement” controls the Tory party. But are her worst suspicions…
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The calm of the sleeper train
Also this week: Samuel Beckett’s advice, and the mysteries of time and loss.
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The Cameron delusion
The former prime minister embodies the failures of supposed “centrism”.
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When I met Bobby Charlton
Wearing a flat cap and ancient raincoat he was calm, quiet, unflashy – a gentleman player.
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If I lived with someone I’d drive them insane
After a week of the sniffles I have discovered another good reason to be single – I can freely take…
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Roma Agrawal’s Q&A: “My specialist subject would be Sex and the City. Or concrete”
The engineer on Bharatanatyam dancing, stand-up comedy and making her industry a more inclusive space.
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A box of family photos pulls me into the past
Looking at pictures with my siblings, time seems to collapse in on itself.
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A nonconforming take on The Nutcracker
The Southbank Centre puts a refreshing new twist on the most established of theatrical traditions.
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Saltburn is a class satire without bite
Emerald Fennell’s story of an Oxford student who infiltrates the aristocracy values style over depth.
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Why we chose Benjamin Myers’s Cuddy as the Goldsmiths Prize winner
The time-travelling story about faith, nationhood and the north upends preconceptions of the “historical novel”.
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Subscriber of the Week: Ruth Wills
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This England: Refreshing data
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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The Iran Trap
Why Israel and the West are running out of time.
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The celebrity chef is dead
In the era of the post-heroic kitchen, the restaurant prevails as the brand over the celebrity’s name.
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Progressives dream of tyranny
Millions of young people identify with movements that repress the freedoms they take for granted.
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Letter of the week: Starmer’s struggle
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Michael Gove is considering stepping down to avoid a “Portillo moment”
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Pia Sinha: how criminal gangs are taking over prisons
The ex-prison governor and justice reformer on a crumbling British penal system.
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