Exposed: Britain’s next maternity scandal

Richard Tice’s pitch to Tory Middle England

At Guildford Rugby Club, Nigel Farage’s number two goes into salesman mode to entice Reform-curious Conservatives

Journalism in an age of decline and degradation

I keep an edition of the magazine from 1963 on my desk; it seems little has changed since then

Anthony Barnett: “The Sixties were a catastrophic failure”

The writer and campaigner on nationalism, the rise of the new right and how a fractured left can organise…

The only way is Wexford

Also this week: A new president for Ireland, and an operatic national anthem

For whom the Torsten Bell tolls

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster

Letter of the week: Doomed to repeat the past

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The Reform revolution will be Americanised

Nigel Farage’s plans for government are already being drawn up

Nick Fuentes leads Maga into the anti-Semitic gutter

Tucker Carlson has given Fuentes, the far-right provocateur, airtime on one of the biggest platforms in the world

Knife crime is creeping into Middle England

Overall knife crime is down. But Huntingdon’s attack symbolises its commute from the cities to the suburbs and shires

All your data belongs to us: the rise of Palantir

A biography of the tech company’s founder Alex Karp reveals the philosophy behind its troubling conquest of the world

Anthony Bourdain reheated

A new collection of his writing tells us more than ever about the chef

Martin Scorsese, priest of the silver screen

In his youth, the great auteur wanted to join the Church – but he practised his faith better from…

Who killed the social housing dream?

A new history of Britain’s tower blocks reveals the ways architecture and ideology have combined to ensure residents are…

Jennifer Lawrence gives everything to Die My Love

Lynne Ramsay’s film is an extraordinary adaptation of an extreme story about a life in meltdown

Death by Lightning: the unsung ballad of James Garfield

Netflix’s period piece tells the story of a president overlooked by history and his oddball assassin

Florence and the Machine’s season of the witch

Her new album Everybody Scream is shaped by the occult but portrays profoundly human experiences

How not to adapt a great novel

The new theatre adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty loses the beauty

A tale of two River Cafés

Why British haute cuisine is obsessed with fake modesty

My first kleptomania patient

The disease raises questions about the limits of criminal responsibility, though a breach of trust is a breach of…

Time weighs heavy in my childhood home

I wonder how going into the street shooting at the road signs with my dad’s air rifle would go…

Joan of Arc wins me £12.50

Parents, pay close attention to the media your children consume

This England: Nip it in the bud

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

January 1973: Paul Foot rails against establishment neglect of the thalidomide children