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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On a trip to Poland, I am reminded that my heyday has been and very much gone
A friendly man about a year older than me, turned and said: “You were an icon of the Nineties.” A…
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The ultra-processed food swindle
Engineered to trick our taste buds and appetites, artificially produced food is ruining our health and damaging our children. But…
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Frieda Hughes’s Q&A: “The Bible taught me everything”
The poet and painter on motorbikes, frog migration, and why all politicians are children.
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From Jacqueline Rose to Kira Yarmysh: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Encounterism by Andy Field and Art Firsts by Nick Trend.
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Gods of Tennis took me back to when the players were rock stars
So much hair and testosterone, and yet, really, they were only little boys.
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The Jewish vaccine pioneer forgotten by history
Simon Schama wants the post-pandemic world to learn from the case of Waldemar Haffkine: a tragic story of how prejudice…
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We have a new album out and are determined that ageing won’t stop us seizing the day
Forwards we go, embracing the new. Although, I’m a bit worried my doctor is soon going to tell me I…
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How to survive a nuclear holocaust
A luxury hotel protects the affluent in Sven Holm’s Termush, a rediscovered 1967 dystopia that sheds light on our own…
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The cult of David Keenan
How the Scottish author drew on music, drugs and violence to lead a new working-class avant-garde
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Stephen William’s Chevalier is a wasted opportunity
This biopic of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier, the first black European composer, is less interested in the past than in converting…
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Elton John is saying goodbye, for one more time
He can no longer hit the high notes and stayed mostly seated at the piano but, even at the age…
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