All alone

Jacob Rees-Mogg bares all

An evening with the former Tory minster

Few think Starmer will last the year

Left populism is not new and it is not going away

The secret diary of a Foreign Office civil servant

Keir Starmer’s hellish week is only the prelude to a world of Mandelson chaos

St George’s Day can’t contain the new English nationalism

In Ramsgate, officialised folklore tried to bypass the political passions of the age

Does anything remain of Starmerism?

Also: Tory-Reform electoral cannibalism, and politics as televised blood sport

Letter of the week: Strangers in a strange world

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The Mandelson affair is stripping this government bare

Its origins lie in Keir Starmer’s inability to control a restless world

Bernie Sanders, America’s unlikely AI oracle

Rarely among progressives, Sanders is grappling with how AI will irrevocably change our societies

Why young women are so angry

They’re giving up on finance as well as romance

AI will dissolve civilisation as we know it

Demis Hassabis has dedicated himself to guiding machine intelligence for the betterment of humanity – but is it listening?

Ben Lerner has taken autofiction somewhere new

The American novelist’s new book is not truly about ego, or technology, but a more elusive and universal theme

Lena Dunham and the art monster

Her memoir Famesick shows the corrosive effect of living through one’s work

What we lose when a language dies

Sophia Smith Galer’s book is a rallying cry against linguistic extinction

The NS Poem: Nocturne

A new poem by Yasmine Seale

Turandot, the last canonical opera

The premiere of Puccini’s Turandot, a century ago, was also the wake for a venerated cultural tradition

Rose of Nevada: a hypnotic Cornish Back to the Future

Mark Jenkin’s new film is beautifully made. But does it make any deeper sense?

Queen Elizabeth II’s unhappy birthday

The assumptions behind Queen Elizabeth II’s monarchy are dissolving before us

The message of A Doll’s House is unbound by time

A new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s renowned play emphasises the performance’s universality – but the characters leave much to…

Let children into restaurants

Just don’t serve them junk

Can AI diagnose your family’s health problems?

Patients are increasingly going to artificial intelligence before the GP surgery

All good things must come to an end

On eating spaghetti alle vongole and getting a call from the bailiffs

How the old became invincible

No politician can be honest about spending on social care

Beer and sandwiches: At the Maltings Taphouse in Devon

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