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Labour’s economic tightrope

Having raised taxes and spending, Labour must now deliver improved services.

Letter of the week: Systemic problems, holistic solutions

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Dispirited former Tory ministers shrink from the opposition grind

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Joe Rogan could decide the US election

This presidential race marks insurgent media’s supplanting of the mainstream.

Why the Tortoise sale may be good for the Observer

Also this week: reminiscing about print’s heyday and leaving technology at the theatre door.

Paul Johnson: “Labour might get lucky on growth”

The IFS director on Rachel Reeves’s first Budget and why he’s standing down next year.

Keir Starmer needs to stop prioritising trips abroad

While making international connections is important, the Prime Minister has voters at home to answer to.

The cowardice of the Washington Post

The Jeff Bezos-owned paper has refused to endorse a candidate in the US election. Plus: a boardroom battle over…

JD Vance wants to lead the Maga movement

Donald Trump’s running mate seems prepared to put his desire for power ahead of American democracy.

The West will pay a steep price if it ignores Brics countries

If the global bloc can successfully ween itself off the US dollar, we will enter a new global order.

Labour’s rhetorical black hole

Language is unravelling across the party.

Alexei Navalny’s chronicle of a death foretold

The enemy of Putin survived the first attempt on his life. His memoir Patriot reveals why he returned to…

Lisa Marie Presley takes us behind Graceland’s velvet curtain

From Here to the Great Unknown – a memoir of life as Elvis’s daughter – is a story of…

Claud Cockburn, the original guerrilla journalist

His reporting was fuelled by a cool contempt for authority.

Ali Smith’s data dystopia

Her mind-expanding new novel Gliff draws battle lines between art, language and Big Tech.

From Miriam Gold to Bendor Grosvenor: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring She’s Always Hungry by Eliza Clark and Recognising the Stranger by Isabella Hammad.

Colin Ward’s school without walls

The New Statesman columnist and anarchist was a proponent of radical social change that put the most vulnerable first.

The myths of Blitz spirit

Steve McQueen’s new film suggests the Second World War was not simply a time of uncomplicated national unity.

Generation Z is a tedious abomination

How did this series, in which dastardly pensioner zombies feast on teenagers, get made?

How Kraftwerk’s Autobahn remade pop

Half a century ago, the art-rock band introduced the world to the vocoder. Their sound – and pop music…

The Tallis Scholars at Saffron Hall: sublime and moving

“Mysteries and Miracles” explores several centuries of sacred music.

There is no hierarchy to good wine

It is difference, not excellence, that is the most enjoyable aspect of the grape.

For assisted dying to work, GPs need to know their patients

Ending a life must be a choice made between alternatives; not one taken because of a failure to provide…

Waitrose is a big part of my life

Here I am, writing about my shopping again: eat your heart out, Adrian Chiles.

To the young, everything is fresh and new

And I must admit: I envy them for it.

This England: A late Romantic

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

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Andrew Roberts Q&A: “I did enjoy watching the moon landings”

The historian and author on the inaccuracy of the latest Napoleon film, gout pills, and the joy of writing.