Can Zohran Mamdani save the left?

A clear vision of tomorrow

Politicians like Zohran Mamdani stand out because they look like they are in control of their agenda.

Release the pigs!

It’s pannage time in the New Forest. But is the land more threatened by man or beast?

John Attlee: “I’d give my right arm for a couple of hours with Clem now”

The last Attlee on his grandfather’s legacy and losing the peerage

Remembering the stage titan Giles Havergal, my cousin

Also this week: bashing pans for Palestine and parties at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Lady Luck deserts Keir

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Charlie Kirk and the failure of online moderation

Your weekly dose of news and gossip from journalism, broadcasting and beyond.

Letter of the week: Watching our language

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Can the Lib Dems escape obscurity?

Ed Davey on charges that he’s not cutting through and why he’s “obsessed” with politically homeless Tories.

Far-right protesters cower behind motherhood

Lost men are using mothers to launder their dirty ideas

Trump visits his vassal state

We are a mouse sharing a bed with a walrus

Britain must help establish a Palestinian state

It has a historical responsibility to do so

Christopher Marlowe’s stage fright

Stephen Greenblatt’s attempt to reconstruct the playwright’s story is brilliant – but Marlowe the man remains a mystery

Leo Varadkar: the man who won Brexit 

In his new memoir, the former taoiseach defends his polarising legacy

Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary is a fierce chronicle of self-invention

The novelist and activist details how she fashioned herself out of collisions with her mother

A glimpse into fractured France

Andrew Hussey’s book on a “divided nation” veers too close to the personal over the political when diagnosing the…

Cillian Murphy’s Steve captures fragility, guilt and compassion

This tense, 24-hour boarding-school drama is anchored by the actor’s commanding performance

Hamilton’s British roots

Although a paean to American history, the musical is deeply influenced by the UK’s theatrical canon

Black Rabbit: gourmands of New York

Jude Law and Jason Bateman shine as intensely charismatic figures under extreme pressure

Black Power Desk reminds us that protest suppression is nothing new

Urielle Klein-Mekongo’s 1970s-set musical explores the consequences of state overreach

Are barristers the most right-wing diners in Britain?

The apex predators of the legal class have the souls of schoolchildren

Would national service for retirees solve generational inequality?

It’s been suggested in Germany that the demographic challenges should fall on all, not just the young

Richard Coles, you owe me a gossipy lunch

Sometimes you just know someone isn’t going to show up at a restaurant

The eternal legacy of architecture

My father’s work lives on in the National Portrait Gallery

It’s official – women’s football is better than men’s

The Super League is more popular than ever, and the England team are even winning pots

This England: Mugged off

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

June 1968: the killing of Robert Kennedy’s portends only future violence in the US