Class warrior

Nostalgia is left wing now

At a model village in Norfolk, I briefly glimpse a functioning, confident England

The House of Lords’s cosplay democracy

It is striking how many peers tried, and failed, to enter parliament by democratic means

When I met Gisèle Pelicot

Also this week: a first in my career, and maternal joy with anxiety

In Olney, women limber up for the race of their lives

The Olney Pancake Race has been run on Shrove Tuesday since 1445

The Sicilian theory of Britain

Plus: poetry as medicine, and the origins of literary London

Letter of the week: Grief in the margins

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Starmer humiliated Wormald – but his problems with the Blob remain

The civil service believes it must deliver or risk being replaced

Meet the American threatening to bring down Prince Andrew

For Congressman Ro Khanna, the campaign against the royal family is personal

Based Labour wants to take back control

Can they win the tussle for influence over Starmer 2.0?

Why does Emerald Fennell keep killing women off?

The director charges towards whatever cultural argument is burning hottest

Dominic Sandbrook on history, the liberal elite and the reading crisis

Britain’s best-known historian found new audiences for the stories of the past. Can he now get them to read…

Uncovering Russia’s dark soul

The country’s vast woods have been overlooked in our understanding of its violent history

The writer who fought the Mafia

Crime writer Leonardo Sciascia launched a political career to take on the Mafia and try to heal the malignant…

Life and fate in Kolkata

In a novel set in a dystopian Bengal, scarcity and climate exile have stripped the characters of their decency…

In Vegas, Elvis performed for himself alone

Baz Luhrmann’s concert film blazes new light on the King’s notorious Sin City years

The Secret Agent is a thrill ride through Brazil’s dictatorship

Garlanded at Cannes and tipped for glory at the Oscars, The Secret Agent is a thrilling ride into Brazil’s…

Tony Blair is old Labour now

The British politician turned elite power-broker has nothing to smile about any more

I’m Sorry, Prime Minister is missing the drama

Stripped of the Westminster scaffolding, this Yes, Minister sequel unspools into endless trading of retorts and ripostes, going nowhere

The relentless drudgery of wedding food

It doesn’t have to be like this!

A patient recalls being shot

I asked about significant past medical problems. “No. Unless you mean when I was five.” He patted his leg…

My duvet has acquired a will of its own

It has made a declaration of independence even with every button on the cover done up

Beer and sandwiches: At Have I Got Brews for You in Stony Stratford

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