Commons Confidential: A prize parliamentary pet
Plus: how an SNP MP ended up voting while wearing a wedding dress.
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Britain on the brink
Blood on the streets: the charge of the hooligans at Euro 2016
Young, fit, muscular men with masks, gumshields and telescopic truncheons, the Russian “elite ultras” attacked not just with drunken…
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Leader: The EU is a troubled institution, but we should still vote to remain
Britain needs to stay in the EU so that it can lead the reform of the bloc.
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Reckoning for a radical: what next for Nigel Farage?
The one man who did more than anyone to make the EU referendum happen.
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Restive Labour voters, post-Brexit border controls and the ferocity of the Russian Ultras
The editor’s note.
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The shadow state, hip-hop founding fathers and the gold-standard rifle for spree killers
Why so few women turn to Islamic extremist terror is just as interesting a question as why some men…
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The EU referendum was meant to be a Tory nightmare – but it has become one for Labour
Whatever the result, the chasm between the party and its supporters has been exposed as never before.
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The Brexit crisis
The referendum debate has been long on polemic and short on facts.
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The best quotes of the EU referendum campaign
From Emma Thompson to Nicholas Soames, our favourite lines from the long campaign.
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Why Sweden’s free schools are failing
Perhaps most galling for Swedes is how schools appear to be increasing inequality, rather than eroding it.
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The elusive Springsteen, when debating gets nasty, and an NHS for women
Victoria Derbyshire’s diary.
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This has been a sour and tawdry EU campaign – and broadcasters must take some responsibility
Though some politicians have made long, well-argued speeches about the EU, correspondents on all channels are more interested in…
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How Ray Parlour straddled a culture clash in English football
Although he won three Premier League titles and four FA Cups with Arsenal, Ray Parlour was capped only ten times…
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“Minoan pendant”: a new poem by Mark Granier
“Yes – I press my nose / to the pleasantly warm glass – / it’s a copy of one…
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Art galleries: the cathedrals of the modern age
Stunning new gallery spaces have opened in London and San Francisco. But which is better – the buildings or the…
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The Raleigh Ringers and the joy of handbells
The Raleigh Ringers, an ensemble from North Carolina that formed in 1990, exist to convince the world it needs…
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From Soap Street to the Arndale Centre: a disappearing act on the streets of Manchester
While I’ve no truck with nirvana, I am a true believer in the power of deep absorption into the…
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What The Archers doesn’t tell you about EU food
We import 27 per cent of our food from the EU and 19 per cent from outside it. What…
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As storm clouds gather over the Hovel and Europe, I ask myself: what would Dirk Bogarde do?
Lord, has the political sky been foul lately.
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My 1981 diary reminds me just how hard I worked for my A-levels: not very
I still have my diary from that summer and a quick glance at it reveals exactly how dedicated I…
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How the free market of T20 is reshaping world cricket
It was the free market that allowed T20 cricket to evolve. To survive, the Test game should learn from…
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Cocodrilo tears: Mexico’s Radio Turquesa
On the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, everything is run from generators, the internet is heat-wavishly slow, and the…
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Swipe right for like: can non-arthouse foreign films succeed in Britain?
A look at Polish romcom Planeta Singli, plus Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetary of Splendour.
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Spirit voices: how do you make an ethical documentary?
Both Channel 4’s Interview with a Murderer and the BBC’s Koko: the Gorilla Who Talks to People exhibit disquieting storytelling methods.
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What Barbra Streisand tells us about the modern day diva
Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity and Power is an acute and sympathetic rendering of a career forged from yearning and…
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Haystack in a haystack: travels around the human genome
Siddhartha Mukherjee’s book is a tourist guide to the twenty-first century’s uncharted continent, the human genome.
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The talent trap: why try, try and trying again isn’t the key to success
The idea of “grit” speaks to our deepest wishes: we all want to believe in our own limitless potential, and…
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Everyone Is Watching asks us to question who really makes a city
Megan Bradbury’s novel of derelict New York of the 1970s was generative even as it was falling apart, inspiring artists…
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A buy-one-get-one-free can destroy your life
I rarely give any sort of present to anybody, because I am traumatised by the memory of the terrible…
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How Facebook could sway the EU referendum – while remaining politically neutral
Twitter and Uber have also jumped on the bandwagon.
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