In Asteroid City, Wes Anderson is beyond parody
As a trend for homages to his work explodes, the director doubles down on his mannerisms in his most affected…
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My first days in charge of the Evening Standard prompt a return to office habits
Also this week: a word of warning for Sadiq Khan and reflecting on the new age of AI journalism.
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The sick society
How Big Pharma and the charity health sector are making us a nation of the worried well.
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Brexit has an upside: Britain could dominate in high-tech goods and services
The EU has slept through the digital revolution. The UK can capitalise on this, if it prioritises data over diplomacy.
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The NS Poem: maples
A new poem by Claudine Toutoungi.
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Subscriber of the week: Clara Beasley-Murray
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The tug of war over Boris Johnson’s honours list is also a contest for favour from the Tory press
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: The Treasury tyranny
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How Silvio Berlusconi privatised democracy
Throughout his career, the Italian politician combined extravagance and offence with a fundamental hollowness.
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This England: Get your ducks in a row
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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The fall of the unpopular populist
Boris Johnson refusal to face a potential by-election is a reflection of his diminished standing.
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How Deep England fell out of love with Boris Johnson
The disgraced former prime minister is not welcome among his new neighbours in rural Oxfordshire.
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The humiliation of the populists
Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon have both been undone by democracy.
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Too big to blame: the great Libor cover-up
Andy Verity’s Rigged reveals how a few City bankers became scapegoats for a national rates-rigging scandal.
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Nicola Sturgeon could lose all that she holds dearest
If Sturgeon places anything above Scottish independence, it is her personal integrity.
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Annie Ernaux’s acts of revenge
The Nobel laureate on abortion, the “shame” of her upbringing and forging a new working-class literature.
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Elise Loehnen: “Wellness as a concept needs to fracture”
The journalist and former chief content officer for Goop on learning not to be good.
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Losing the Wager
In his gripping new book, David Grann reveals the imperial rivalry and hubris that lay behind an 18th-century mutiny.
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BBC One’s Best Interests captures the horror of parental grief
Michael Sheen and Sharon Horgan are magnificent as the father and mother of an unconscious disabled child.
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I went to a party so magical it could have been a dream – and I didn’t disgrace myself
You know it’s going to be a cut above a standard summer barbecue when guests have a choice of two…
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