The new Tory tribes
Rishi Sunak’s MPs are already competing to define the party’s purpose and shape its future.
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Axis of Autocrats
Letter of the week: The NS great and the good
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Liz Truss becomes the latest Tory MP to fancy a presenting gig on GB News
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The revolution will not be brought to you by ChatGPT
Robots never took your job, and neither will chatbots.
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Sigrid Rausing’s Diary: Why it’s time to step down at Granta, the sound of music, and the art of making lists
Our Best of Young British Novelists list proved that publishing is more permeable, and more transformative, than we imagine.
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Monica Macias: “I wanted to become a pianist. Kim Il Sung said no”
The author – and daughter of Equatorial Guinea’s former dictator Francisco Macías Nguema – on her childhood spent in…
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Is “National Conservatism” a dead end for the Tories, or a sign of what is to come?
Rishi Sunak may be tempted by an ideology of muscular nationalism – but he would risk alienating British voters.
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The EU cannot afford to take sides in the contest between the US and China
Europe’s economy, dependent on global supply chains, is not built for Cold War-style relations.
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Spain’s left coalition defied expectations. Can its leader, Pedro Sánchez, win again?
The government is far from perfect, but the PM has improved the country’s economic prospects and international clout.
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A car of one’s own
I never used to imagine myself as a driver. Now I’m in love with a Toyota Corolla.
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The world according to Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin
China and Russia are united in an epic struggle against the West – and their leaders seek nothing less…
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Rachel de Souza: “Big Tech knows it harms children – it should get serious”
The children’s commissioner on social media, porn and the mental health crisis in schools.
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Is this the end of newspapers?
I still take two papers a day. But the habit of a lifetime is vanishing beneath my inky fingers.
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Who is afraid of Martin Heidegger?
Why the most radioactive philosopher of the 20th century still speaks to us.
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The NS Poem: A Standstill
A new poem by Andrew Motion.
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The decline of the Literary Bloke
In featuring just four men, Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists confirms what we already knew: the literary male…
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Anatomy of a romantic hero
Curtis Sittenfeld’s Romantic Comedy presents a new male ideal: famous, feminist, fantastically handsome – and blind to your every…
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From Max Porter to Xiaolu Guo: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring All the Houses I’ve Ever Lived In by Kieran Yates and Uproar by Alice Loxton.
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The cult of Sigmund Freud
The inventor of psychoanalysis attracted failed scientists and sexual opportunists, and built his legacy upon myth and error.
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The dark world of anorexia
Hadley Freeman’s Good Girls is ruthless and revealing on her illness but too soft on our culture’s damaging obsession…
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Rachmaninoff’s enduring melodies
In his lifetime, his music was an escape from modernity – 150 years after his birth, the Russian composer…
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Kristoffer Borgli’s Sick of Myself: the worst people in the world?
The wretchedly self-absorbed lead and her artist boyfriend are truly, absurdly awful. To what end?
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ITV’s Raoul Moat drama is sickening, cynical TV
The pain of Moat’s victims has been callously put aside, all to make another middling series with a middling…
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The BBC podcast series A Very British Cult is dark and gripping
This deep dive into a supposed life-coaching organisation is an explosive listen. I won’t spoil the ending.
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What makes an unforgettable meal? The time, place and company – and the butter
The cannellini and chard on toast roars with garlic, but that alone cannot explain its magic.
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My life, and finances, are summed up by my attempts to mash a potato with a fork
It was a uniquely dispiriting moment in a life rich with them, and my suspicion is that I am…
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This England: High foot traffic
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Jack Monroe: “I’m still working through my teenage rebellion”
The food writer and campaigner on her hero parents and belting out “Shout” by Lulu to combat nerves.
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