I went to a party so magical it could have been a dream – and I didn’t disgrace myself
You know it’s going to be a cut above a standard summer barbecue when guests have a choice of two…
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From Ronnie O’Sullivan to a Ukrainian family memoir: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Being Human by Lewis Dartnell and We All Go Into the Dark by Francisco Garcia.
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EL James’ Q&A: “I’d love to sing the blues in a smoky Soho bar”
The author on Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock, living without TV and her hope of reversing Brexit.
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Nick Drake’s dark places
The songwriter is revered as a tortured genius – but Richard Morton Jack’s new biography shows that behind the romantic…
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I hate every minute of the “dream boys” stripshow, except, that is, for the ones I love
“I miss your normal body,” I later texted my boyfriend, having survived one of the most conflicting nights of my…
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Peter Turchin’s empty prophecies
The social scientist has made a career from predicting global instability. But in the new book End Times, his analysis…
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A trip to the GMB sofa and a lesson for lying politicians
Also this week: awkward encounters at my book launch and Prince Harry takes on the Mirror.
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I refuse to feel shame after eating – but it saddens me that so many women still do
I thought moralised comments about eating were a thing of the past, but then I went on a girls’ holiday.
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Britain is not the sick man of Europe – that accolade goes to Germany
To survive in a modern, digital world, the German economy requires not a green transition but a full-scale revolution.
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Subscriber of the Week: Peter Kobryn
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Keir Starmer dodges the toff uniform of top hat and tails during his day out at the Epsom Derby
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: Intellectual stimulants
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Letter from Marseille: the lawless metropolis
Riven by violence and drugs, France’s second city is descending into anarchy.
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Marina Litvinenko: “I’m glad to talk about him – it feels like a duty”
The wife of Alexander Litvinenko on Putin, Peter Morgan's Patriots and depictions of her husband's assassination on stage and screen.
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This England: Muscle man
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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The Reeves doctrine: Labour’s plan for power
She is ready to be Britain’s first female chancellor. But will Rachel Reeves’ caution stifle her creativity?
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Labour will inherit the chaos of the Covid inquiry
Divisions are plaguing the whole country, and are rooted in personality and populism, not policy.
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Labour and the return of the state
Is Labour’s ambition to transform Britain’s economic and social model or merely to manage it more competently than the Tories?
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The new age of perfectionism
Is capitalism itself causing millennial burnout?
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The NS Poem: Rotterdam
A new poem by John Kinsella.
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