Without purpose, Labour will remain adrift
Keir Starmer has allowed others to define his government‘s project.
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100 days that shook Labour
Letter of the week: “In blood stepp’d in so far”
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All change in the Starmtrooper brigade
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Israel and Iran’s final reckoning
A full-blown conflict would have global consequences.
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Letter from Israel: we’re still living in unprecedented times
A retaliatory attack on Iran is imminent after Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel.
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Morgan McSweeney – the permanent insurgent
As No 10 chief of staff, the Irishman faces his greatest challenge yet.
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Republicans are waging lawfare to win the White House
Democracy be damned.
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Why the media took out Sue Gray
Will No 10 leakers regret leaning on the right-wing press? Plus: Britain’s new media mogul and a loss for…
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The Tories have a chance – but only if they elect a leader willing to disrupt
Questioning bankrupt orthodoxies is a step towards devising workable solutions.
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Tony Blair is wrong – AI will not magically solve our public services
Too many people might be left out of its revolution.
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Megalopolis’s bad history
The Roman Republic is a lazy analogy for the modern political condition.
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100 days that shook Labour
The government has already squandered the goodwill of voters. Can the Budget revitalise Team Starmer?
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Putin stares down the West
With Russia’s war economy roaring, the balance of power is shifting in the Kremlin’s favour.
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Timothy Snyder’s liberty bell
The historian’s account of the failures of American freedom is earnest and uneven, but its message is vital.
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Alan Hollinghurst’s intimate vision
In the quietly remarkable novel Our Evenings, loving attention is paid to a mother-and-son relationship.
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Why painting (still) matters
Reports of the art form’s death have been exaggerated – it retains the power to make new worlds.
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How black Arsenal changed football
For fans and players, the north London club has come to offer a sense of belonging.
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From Robert McCrum to Adrian Tinniswood: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Taking the Lead by John Crace and The Silence of the Choir by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr.
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Fight Club in the manosphere
Twenty-five years on, the film has become celebrated by lost young men who fail to grasp its subversive intent.
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Timestalker’s cycle of suffering
This “reincarnation spoof” sees a woman endure the same horrors lifetime after lifetime. Sadly, it’s also painful viewing.
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Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer is excruciatingly bad
This Apple TV series starring Cate Blanchett is despair-inducing tripe.
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A new history of the Brighton bomb attack
This podcast series about the most brazen attack on British politics since the Gunpowder Plot is not a comfortable…
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The end of Generation Rock
The music of the baby boomers survived into the 21st century, with stars still performing in their eighties. Can…
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The pumpkin is not just for Halloween
At last, we are learning how to utilise this glorious vegetable.
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Making a new weight-loss drug available on the NHS will break the system
There isn’t capacity to accommodate the millions that would seek it.
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My four years in Wittgensteinian austerity
As another anniversary in the Hove-l goes by, I realise I’m happy enough.
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Russell Brand’s weird Christian comeback
A cynic might say that his conversion is not really a conversion at all.
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This England: One of our dinosaurs is missing
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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André Aciman Q&A: “No one really knows who they are”
The author and director on Marcel Proust and his fascination with the stock market.
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