Among the believers
Labour gathers in Liverpool as a government-in-waiting. But can Keir Starmer negotiate the traps being set for him?
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Trapped in the AI echo chamber
Mustafa Suleyman and his fellow artificial intelligence cheerleaders now say their inventions could destroy us. Should we believe them?
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The return of the two Germanys
The country is in economic and political crisis and parties of the extreme left and right are rising again.
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A train line to nowhere
Rishi Sunak’s announcement that the northern leg of HS2 is to be cancelled combines farce with tragedy.
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Lydia Davis’s war on Amazon
The short-story writer on why the tech giant’s profit-seeking is corrupting culture.
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This England: Gargoyle wars
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Ian Fleming, eternal adolescent
Nicholas Shakespeare’s biography reveals a boy more reminiscent of Peter Rabbit than James Bond.
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Anne Boleyn’s blunders
A new history shows how the clever, ambitious queen was no match for the post-truth politics of Henry VIII’s court.
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From Gordon Brown to Natalie Haynes: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Family Meal by Bryan Washington and Pure Wit by Francesca Peacock.
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BBC’s Boiling Point knows the terror of the kitchen
This sequel to the Stephen Graham movie, a cooking ur-text, is tense and highly theatrical.
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Max Bennett’s Q&A: “When we follow advice, we adopt the wants of others”
The AI entrepreneur on Jim Carrey, Game of Thrones and his disdain for self-congratulatory LinkedIn posts.
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To turn or not to turn?
In his new book, the former New Statesman political editor identifies the defining moments when Britain changed.
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Cat-sitting has messed with my mind
Despite the animal treating me with disdain I decided to suck up the contempt and commit myself to the idea…
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Scientists of the 17th century would recognise my ailment – air ache
When a season changes I feel something halfway between yearning for memory and a premonition of oncoming.
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The absurdity of Lessons in Chemistry
The overnight success of Bonnie Garmus’s debut novel is almost as improbable as its contrived plot.
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Why make a film about the BlackBerry?
In Matt Johnson’s film about the vanished electronic device, we all know what’s to come: the iPhone.
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Myths of the miners’ strike
An oral history of the bitter Eighties dispute reveals a conflict that went far deeper than just government vs trade…
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Subscriber of the week: Richard Seager
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My own special relationship with North America
Also this week: Meeting progressive peers in Montreal, and bridging divides in football and politics.
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Ministers are on resignation watch as Rishi goes rogue
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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