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The dangers of meritocracy

Why the supposed cure for social inequality is making life worse for everyone – even its apparent winners.

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It was a time when we chose life. When football was coming home. When a new day was dawning, was…

By John Niven

How “the most dangerous spy in history” made his name.

By Andrew Glazzard

Cusk’s expertly fluid collection of essays, Coventry, is about many things at once, but at its crux is the notion…

By Kathryn Maris

Fifty years after it shunned him, the Conservative Party has embraced Powell’s Eurosceptic and nationalist views.

By Colin Kidd

Reporting from the rally of Tommy Robinson’s supporters protesting his sentencing for contempt of court at the Old Bailey in…

By Freddie Hayward

The former foreign secretary seeks to explain Iran’s deep suspicion of Britain.

By James Barr

How information is weaponised in our divided age.

By Daniel Cohen