American Darkness

Leader: The American berserk

Progress is not inevitable. Liberal gains can easily be overturned or lost, as in the case of Roe vs…

Letter of the week: What Brexit meant

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The Lib Dems name their price for a deal with Labour

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Is polio’s reappearance in London connected to Covid?

New signs of a virus that had been banished from Britain for decades raise further questions about the pandemic’s…

Michael Howard’s Diary: Why I have no regrets over calling for Boris Johnson to resign

Oliver Dowden standing down as Conservative Party chair was a brave step and I didn’t want him to seem…

Esther Duflo: “Climate change is a problem from hell politically”

The Nobel Prize-winning economist on how equality can save the planet.

In Westminster, change is stirring: Tory hegemony is under threat

The Conservatives are in trouble. The overwhelming likelihood is that Keir Starmer will be the next prime minister.

Russia’s threat to the global financial order is also our chance to build a new one

Is the international economic system unravelling, or is this a moment of transformation?

Boris Johnson remaining in office is only helping the Liberal Democrats triumph

Even the most loyal Tory knows we won in East Devon because former Conservative voters are furious at No 10.

Roe vs Wade has resonated widely – but the US is not the centre of the universe

It isn’t healthy to focus on American issues so obsessively that we ignore other countries.

Cries of a “woke Wimbledon” show that it can’t avoid the culture wars forever

The All England Club has historically lacked an overt world-view – but this constitutes a world-view in itself.

Volodymyr Zelensky behind the mask

Serhii Rudenko’s biography is a portrait of a wartime hero whose troubled past may return to haunt him.

Reviewed in short: New books from Sophie Pavelle, Brendan Simms and Steven McGregor, Ana Kinsella and Gerald Murnane

Forget Me Not by Pavelle, The Silver Waterfall by Simms and McGregor, Look Here by Kinsella and Last Letter…

How TS Eliot found happiness

Withdrawn and prejudiced, the poet is hard to warm to – but Robert Crawford’s new biography shows how Eliot’s…

Henry Kissinger’s whitewashing of Richard Nixon

The American diplomat’s new book, Leadership, is undermined by his self-serving portrait of his thuggish former boss.

In a fractured world, Glastonbury is a much-needed sanctuary

Festivals are easily romanticised, but alongside the glitter and the dancing they demonstrate how humans might better live together.

David Roberts: Victorian visions of the Holy Land

The Scottish artist’s exotic renderings of Egypt and the Near East imprinted biblical landscapes on the 19th-century imagination.

The Princess is a radical new take on the very familiar story of Diana Spencer

Documentarian Ed Perkins shifts the focus away from the royals’ story to examine the people who helped create it:…

The Undeclared War is truly clever TV

Long may Peter Kosminsky go on making shows as addictive, vital and creative as this GCHQ cyberwar drama.

What does it really mean to forgive?

A new BBC Radio 4 series variously frames forgiveness as difficult, healing, a tool to regain power and an…

Be your own florist – it’s simple and sustainable

Maintaining a few scruffy flower beds banishes the need for shop-bought bouquets.

The message from the Supreme Court: do not get used to having rights

Overturning Roe vs Wade means some women’s bodily autonomy will cease at the moment of conception.

The Brixton where I once sought hash and Red Stripe has gone missing

I hadn’t been to Brixton in decades. Railton Road, the front line of street dealing in our day, is…

This England: If he could speak to the animals

This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…

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Howardena Pindell Q&A: “A white parent tried to get me expelled from university”

The American artist on her love of Paris, the cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the paintings of Kerry James Marshall.