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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Letter of the week: The allure of Olympian thinking
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The crisis of conservatism
Our guide to the 50 most influential people in conservative politics features free-marketeers alongside post-liberal thinkers.
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The New Statesman’s right power list
The 50 most influential people shaping Britain’s conservative politics.
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The meanwhile space deception
Temporary neighbourhood gimmicks are turning your next home into a Potemkin village.
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Rishi Sunak is out of time
It is too late for the Prime Minister to unite a divided and directionless Conservative Party.
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This England: Lost in the post box
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Requiem for a world war
Jeremy Eichler’s Time’s Echo shows how four great 20th-century composers captured the horrors of conflict.
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Desperation is turning the centre right against green politics
As populist parties’ influence grows, the consensus around Europe’s climate change agenda is crumbling.
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The tragedy of John Mearsheimer
How the American realist became the world’s most hated thinker.
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Who owns your face?
How the shadowy start-up Clearview sold the power of facial recognition to corporations and states across the globe.
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ITV’s The Long Shadow trivialises the crimes of Peter Sutcliffe
For all its professed sensitivity, this drama turns the most terrible crimes committed against women into mere entertainment. I’m sad…
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How England lost the Hundred Years War
The final part of Jonathan Sumption’s epic history reveals the complacency that led to the end of English power in…
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