Keir Starmer needs to stop prioritising trips abroad
While making international connections is important, the Prime Minister has voters at home to answer to.
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Letter of the week: Systemic problems, holistic solutions
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Trump’s GOP takeover
How a demagogue remade the Republican Party and transformed US politics.
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Dispirited former Tory ministers shrink from the opposition grind
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Paul Johnson: “Labour might get lucky on growth”
The IFS director on Rachel Reeves’s first Budget and why he’s standing down next year.
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Alexei Navalny’s chronicle of a death foretold
The enemy of Putin survived the first attempt on his life. His memoir Patriot reveals why he returned to Russia…
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Rachel Kushner Q&A: “Don’t ugly yourself in the face of ugliness”
The novelist on the innocence of the 1970s, cherishing life as it is, and Roxy Music.
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Subscriber of the week: Vicky Allard
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This England: Cleaned the place out
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Another week, another encounter with the long arm of the law
Despite my best efforts, it seems my council tax bill has come a-knocking.
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Why Rachel Reeves should crash the housing market
It might take ten years and a lot of shouting, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth doing.
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Self Esteem: “I’ve been maturing my disgust at societal norms”
Rebecca Lucy Taylor’s hit record Prioritise Pleasure was a loud rejection of the status quo. Her next album is “a…
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Why has no one gotten back to me about managing England?
I’m more than qualified: I’ve got time and I like money.
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The gardener’s bittersweet acceptance
We may not be able to stick around long enough to enjoy the fruit of our labours.
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Pedro Almodóvar’s conflict of interests
The Room Next Door resolves the Spanish director’s struggle between black comedy and bookish melodrama.
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The NS Poem: Goya’s Madrileños
A new poem by Will Eaves.
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David Goodhart’s care delusion
The UK faces a falling fertility rate and a crisis in social care. Must women bear the blame?
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The Victoria’s Secret show belongs to a chauvinist past
The lingerie brand’s fashion show has returned after six years away – but, no longer able to sell the priapic…
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Against the cult of profit
Making money for shareholders has become a fixation, John Kay’s new book shows – but it is a meagre definition…
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The implosion of centrism has left Labour in unmapped territory
The world the party expected to join when it came to power no longer exists.
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