Closing Britain’s privilege gap
The case for ending the effective state subsidy of private schools is overwhelming.
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Class War
Letter of the week: Money rules
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Ed Miliband’s Heathrow hoedown
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The cost of net zero in the town that steel built
Labour’s climate push risks leaving Scunthorpe behind.
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Agnes Callard: “Socrates wants us to reflect on the oddity of our sexual practices”
The public philosopher on open relationships, free speech and why protests fail.
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The Premier League must give more to grassroots clubs
Also this week: Rachel Reeves as Elmer Fudd, a chocolate windfall, and why England’s landmarks are crumbling.
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The costs of Labour’s growth boosterism
The Chancellor now understands that the politics of her role are as important as the economics.
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Sara Sharif and the case for transparency
Also this week: Lisa Nandy gets entangled in the Telegraph’s web, and why Brits are abandoning Tesla.
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Trump’s America is a gangster’s paradise
He has stripped the country naked and revealed the ugly secret beneath our idealism: money and corruption.
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Will Europe abandon Ukraine?
With Donald Trump’s return to the White House, support from Kyiv’s EU allies appears more precarious than ever.
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How Instagram killed British food
Slop for the brain, slop for the tastebuds.
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Class war: the battle over private schools
Labour must recover its radical tradition and close Britain’s education privilege gap.
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The Nazis and us
The Holocaust continues to haunt our politics. But slurring our opponents as Hitlers is not the way to defeat…
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Donald Trump’s Florida project
How the Sunshine State, once America’s dead end, became its new seat of power.
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The secret history of the poles
How glaciers hold the key to Earth’s deep past.
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How WG Sebald found his form
His studies of Austrian writers, at times more fiction than fact, offer a guide to the artist he would…
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From James Birch to Mohsen M Milani: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Ninette’s War by John Jay and Captain de Havilland’s Moth by Alexander Norman.
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The NS Poem: Catalogues, Various
A new poem by Josephine Balmer.
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Hard Truths is Mike Leigh’s most severe movie
In a close-up portrait of an intolerably contemptuous woman, the veteran director returns to his miserabilist comic mode.
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Onegin at the Royal Opera House: a spectacular blur
This ballet is visually gorgeous – but the story is lost in the whirl of movement.
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The riddle of Margaret Thatcher
James Graham’s Brian and Maggie, starring Harriet Walter as the prime minister, is shrewd on the class dynamics that…
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In search of Jutta Hipp
In 1979, a musician put out a call in a magazine. Did anyone know where the German jazz pianist…
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The Seventies kitchen re-revolution
The decade that gave us the chicken kiev and butterscotch Angel Delight is back.
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NHS England has no idea about GPs
Reform will only happen when the organisation confronts how lamentably wrong-headed it has been.
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The season of discounted port is over
And with that, my mood is as empty as my glass.
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I used to dream of bagging a musician…
I find plectrums all over the house, and have to move at least one instrument to get into my…
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Could Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United be relegated?
It’s hard not to gloat when the mighty come a-tumbling down.
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This England: A cushy deal
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Roisín O’Donnell Q&A: “I collect old Irish proverbs written on sugar sachets”
The author on single parenting and needing to be painted in a soft-toned impressionist style.
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