Britain’s great tax con
The UK’s tax system entrenches inequality, stymies growth, and rewards a few at the expense of the many.
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Death of a warlord
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s assassination won’t help Russia’s flailing war effort in Ukraine.
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Danny Kruger: “The moral condition of England is worse”
The MP and former political secretary to Boris Johnson reflects on the Tories’ decline.
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The revenge of Theresa May
In a forceful account of political scandals and injustices, May skewers her enemies and owns her mistakes.
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: a feeble last crack of the whip
The Harrison Ford franchise that began with spectacle and wit has ended with a dull, predictable, CGI-laden dud.
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London’s charming India Club is closing, and I feel bereft
A modest candle of quirkiness and affordability has been snuffed out, so the capital can have another luxury hotel.
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A comic story of Britain
This history of comedy contains much moralising – but the best creations transcend the monstrousness of their characters.
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The Woman in the Wall turns the Magdalene laundries into offensive melodrama
Ireland’s unfathomably cruel “mother and baby homes” are here just as set-dressing for a shlocky horror – as if the…
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Róisín Murphy’s Q&A: “Mo Mowlam was everything you’d want a politician to be”
The musician on the former secretary of state for Northern Ireland, her love of the Sopranos and being painted by…
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Zadie Smith: the reluctant historical novelist
The author’s first period piece, The Fraud, is curiously absent of her usual strengths. Was her heart really in it?
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In The Last Waltz it’s Joni Mitchell who mesmerises
Martin Scorsese’s film may be about the Band, but when Joni plays you feel the confidence burning off her like…
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Passages is Ira Sachs’s “horny film”
The director’s art-house film concerns a catastrophic ménage-a-trois.
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Subscriber of the Week: Anthony Wilson
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The plans for a national Holocaust memorial need a rethink
The building’s design has been criticised and tangled in controversy – issues that such a project can well do without.
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Why we’ll never understand Lucy Letby
The nurse’s motive will remain unknown, but there are irrefutable systemic failures which can be addressed.
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Escaping Eden
For those who leave the Exclusive Brethren sect, separation comes at great personal cost.
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Casualties of the counteroffensive
In the summer’s vicious fight for territory, Ukraine is suffering heavy losses. But wounded soldiers are determined to return to…
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The case for student salaries
Also this week: the unfairness of A-levels and ministers who say results don’t matter.
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Letter of the week: The debt paradox
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This England: Fish first
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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