Colson Whitehead’s Q&A: “In the US, we throw up statues of any old dimwit”
The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author on Mark Rothko, Harrison Ford and tender baby-back ribs.
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Who would be a student in 2023?
Undergraduates face inadequate maintenance loans, poor housing and a soaring cost of living – I feel dreadful for them.
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The strange rebirth of Sinn Féin
Under Mary Lou McDonald the party is on the path to power – but can she keep its uneasy alliance…
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Hobbes was wrong
John Gray’s latest book argues that the new Leviathans of liberalism have led to a war of all against all.
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Subscriber of the week: Shadi Brazell
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Churchill and the quest for greatness
Throughout his career, Britain’s wartime prime minister studied how other leaders – Roosevelt, Attlee, Stalin and Gandhi – exercised power.
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This England: Bog standards
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Letter of the week: Wealth and learning
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The parallels between Argentina and Britain’s inept political class
Over the past few decades, both countries have experienced near financial catastrophe at the hands of reckless leaders.
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Lisa Nandy fails to take Starmer’s reshuffle hint
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The great crack-up
We inhabit an economy too small to deliver the social goods British people expect.
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The bitter-sweet beauty of late summer gardening
As the gloom and magic of autumn looms, another season of the year sneaks out the door.
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The Sunak-Modi bilateral
Also this week: the G20 summit that saved the world and the beating heart of England.
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How Conservative complacency left schools to rot
In 2003 Labour aimed to refurbish all of England’s secondary schools, but in 2010 the Tories dropped the project.
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Naomi Klein’s mirror world
The writer and activist on being mistaken for a conspiracy theorist.
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From Yiyun Li to Wolfram Eilenberger: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Kenneth W Harl’s history of nomadic tribes and Redstone Press’s Seeing Things.
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The delightful farce of The Lovers
Johnny Flynn is a joy to watch in this newsroom comedy from Sky Atlantic.
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Economic orthodoxy is a trap
The big prize in politics will be won by the leader who breaks with the existing order.
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A state in disrepair
Crumbling schools exemplify an age of private affluence and public squalor.
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Homer’s history of violence
Emily Wilson’s translation of the Iliad reveals a bleak vision of the self-interest and savagery of humankind.
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