The remarkable range of Glenda Jackson
Also this week: admiring the Elgin Marbles, and enduring the rigmarole of chemotherapy.
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At a patronage rate of a peer per fortnight, Liz Truss’s honours list will out-crony Johnson’s
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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This England: The great escape
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: House rules
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Subscriber of the week: Sid Stace
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The long-term impact of school closures on children is lockdown’s unspoken horror
Teachers reported children starting school while still in nappies and lacking basic language skills.
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Bridget Christie’s The Change and the rise of menopause media
I’d take Christie’s dark humour over Davina McCall’s washboard stomach any day. But let’s stop pretending the topic is “taboo”.
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Is AI a danger to humanity or our salvation?
The founders of AI are divided over what’s next.
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The race to buy the Telegraph group shows that newspapers are far from done
For the past couple of years the publication has been widely assumed to be in play, following the death of…
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The rise of Waterstones Dad
How the self-made man got lost in the marketplace of ideas.
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Culture is everything – and if Labour is to win us over, it needs to rediscover its own
To have a chance of long-term success in office, Keir Starmer needs affection and support.
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The age of cheap money is over
As interest rates surge, Britain needs a new economic model not based on a toxic housing market.
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In the house of Harry Styles
The pop star’s fans have their tricks and traditions to make a stadium gig feel as intimate as possible.
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What Cormac McCarthy knew
The American novelist understood the bleak truth that the world defies human understanding or control.
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Pathologies of a president
A new book revisits Freud’s analysis of Woodrow Wilson to ask: how much do leaders’ psychologies shape our politics?
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Penury is the mother of invention, so I now put dirt-cheap red plonk in the fridge
I am having to get by on £4.30 a day. This is, to put it mildly, sub-optimal.
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In my renter’s mind, a broken boiler valve means I might have to rethink my entire life
I collect, compulsively, stories from friends of rents being raised in response to maintenance requests.
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Wendy Mitchell’s Q&A: “It wasn’t until I had dementia that books became a joy”
The campaigner on living with her diagnosis, Barack Obama and her love of Gogglebox.
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From Brandon Taylor to Stuart Maconie: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Blue Machine by Helen Czerski and Is This OK? by Harriet Gibsone.
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There will be blood
Motherhood is the most profound metamorphosis most women will go through. Why is this process so overlooked?
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