How Deep England fell out of love with Boris Johnson
The disgraced former prime minister is not welcome among his new neighbours in rural Oxfordshire.
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The humiliation of the populists
Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon have both been undone by democracy.
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Too big to blame: the great Libor cover-up
Andy Verity’s Rigged reveals how a few City bankers became scapegoats for a national rates-rigging scandal.
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Nicola Sturgeon could lose all that she holds dearest
If Sturgeon places anything above Scottish independence, it is her personal integrity.
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Annie Ernaux’s acts of revenge
The Nobel laureate on abortion, the “shame” of her upbringing and forging a new working-class literature.
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Elise Loehnen: “Wellness as a concept needs to fracture”
The journalist and former chief content officer for Goop on learning not to be good.
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Losing the Wager
In his gripping new book, David Grann reveals the imperial rivalry and hubris that lay behind an 18th-century mutiny.
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BBC One’s Best Interests captures the horror of parental grief
Michael Sheen and Sharon Horgan are magnificent as the father and mother of an unconscious disabled child.
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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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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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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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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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