Angry Young Women

No one is immune to the rage that drives our politics

Young women – today and always – are less susceptible to delusions of grandeur

The tech execs haggling the “cost to kill”

At Britain’s premier defence conference, death is in demand

The case for spending on defence

Also: an epitaph for our times, and a novel way to read the news

The fertility rituals of the Blackheath Morris Men

“You’re never more than 20 feet from a Morris dancer in London!”

“Internally displaced” doesn’t do justice to those now living on Lebanon’s streets

We spot a lone man sifting through the rubble. I see him pull out a necklace and drop it…

Letter of the week: The Gulf’s porous loyalties

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Andy Burnham’s backers are trying a rebrand

The soft left doesn’t want to be soft anymore

Donald Trump is WEAK on Catholicism

Despite Maga’s proud Catholicism, Trump’s Messiah complex is driving him into a Papal feud

The far right has moved on from Orbán

It now sees its future inside the EU

Why do Britain’s streets feel so scary?

Failing the vulnerable fails everyone

Private equity’s hostile takeover of Britain

Hettie O’Brien’s The Asset Class reveals how a morally dubious business financing model swallowed the public sector

Franz Kafka’s ten apostles

The Mitteleuropean writer owes much of his fame to the gifted translators who took his words out of German…

Is it still cool to be Jay McInerney?

The novelist was once a prince of New York’s literary scene. Today, he chronicles wine instead of the modern…

Patrick Radden Keefe’s obituary for Britain

In London Falling, the American journalist presents the capital as a dying, amoral city

The fabrications of Albert Speer

The Nazi architect wrote his own self-exculpatory story – but what about his crimes?

The NS Poem: Weekend visits

A new poem by Christopher Horton

The Wizard of the Kremlin has no magic

This earnest adaptation of a bestselling book on the rise of Putin has too much hectoring and not enough…

How to laugh at the lanyard class

Twenty Twenty Six satirises the contortions and the tedium of the new British office

Does Inter Alia understand the manosphere?

Suzie Miller’s play takes the debate and turns it on its head – but the message is muddled

Expensive salad bowls are stupid

In the City of London wine and cigarettes are out and chickpeas are in

Nothing could stop me visiting an exhibition about gay bikers

Not even a serious pain in the neck

At my 36th Passover, I finally feel like a grown-up

When does one truly become an adult?

Beer and sandwiches: At the Garnet in Norwich

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