Leader: The West must stand up to Putin
Until the compromised Conservative Party cleanses London of its dirty money, it will have no right to lecture others…
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Letter of the week: Uncovering genocide
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London’s response to Vladimir Putin is pathetically inadequate
If Boris Johnson is serious about defending the rule of law, he will have to do much better than…
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Why we must allow the sovereign to retire
Before the age of common longevity, an heir would not have wasted his life waiting.
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Does Prince Andrew’s settlement constitute justice? That depends what you think the system is for
The Duke has never faced any criminal charges and enjoys a life more leisured than most people could dream…
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Why a power struggle between players is the least of Manchester United’s problems
The squad is trapped in a mini-cycle of boom and bust – with endless quick fixes that ignore the…
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Why Facebook’s future depends on Nick Clegg
The former politician’s promotion at Meta signals that the tech giant now depends on astute political engagement for its…
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Phil Jones’s Diary: Leaving Radio 2, the Queen’s favourite show, and why Gorbachev apologised to me
I’m certain that one person who does support the BBC is the Queen, who told me once that her…
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“I’ve faced my biggest fear. So why worry?”: Wendy Mitchell on living in the moment with young-onset dementia
The memoirist and blogger on how her outlook on life has changed since she was diagnosed in her fifties.
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Inside Politics: Labour’s cost of living split
Our politics team on shadow cabinet divisions, what Tom Tugendhat makes of Boris Johnson and whether it’s all over…
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Putin has yet to show his hand on Ukraine
As Russian forces roll across the border on a “peace-keeping mission” the speculation on the Russian president’s next move…
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Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s Donbas is a grotesque parody of humanitarian intervention
Vladimir Putin’s recognition of Russia’s puppet “republics” in eastern Ukraine will only deepen the region’s suffering
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Nixon in China: the complicated legacy of a week that changed the world
Fifty years after the US president’s visit to Beijing heralded a new era of diplomacy, are divisions deepening again?
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Angela Rayner: “The Tories fear me because I say it how I see it”
As deputy Labour leader, she has proved both an asset and a liability. Is she destined to lead her…
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Andrea Elliott’s story of American poverty is non-fiction writing at its best
Invisible Child follows Dasani Coates and her family in New York as they battle a racist system that is…
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The politics of working out
Two books explore how exercise has been shaped by science, culture and the quest for autonomy. But does keeping…
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Pankaj Mishra’s divided self
In staging a conflict between withdrawal and worldliness, his new novel suffers from a surfeit of ideas and a…
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The NS Poem: Weirdos
A new poem by Ben Wilkinson.
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Reviewed in short: New books by Aaron Perzanowski, Amy Liptrot, Marina Jarre and Tom de Freston
The Right to Repair by Perzanowski, The Instant by Liptrot, Distant Fathers by Jarre, and Wreck by De Freston.
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How Mary Swanzy brought colour to cubism
Both a witness to and a participant in the birth of modernism, the Irish painter personified the experimental art…
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Jim Broadbent is a joy to watch as an ageing art thief in The Duke
In his penultimate film Roger Michell brings a charming Ealing-style sensibility to the retelling of the infamous 1961 heist.
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BBC One’s Chloe is the first TV drama to convincingly explore the ills of social media
The Crown’s Erin Doherty is amazing in this explosive series.
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BBC Radio 4’s “Room 5” tells intimate stories of life-changing medical diagnoses
This podcast sounds like it should be depressing – but its honesty brings light to some of the darkest…
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In Italy I find both ancient rulers and young winemakers
In a place where time blurs, even the wine intertwines past and future.
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Owners and investors are all just passing through. But fans are here for life
There is no point in hating owners: they are not your club. You don’t follow them, you follow the…
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Laziness is not yet a crime, as far as I know, but when it is, I’ll be locked up for it
My inability to do things to help my own well-being suggests a degree of self-loathing. But why should I…
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In front of a Francis Bacon painting, a strange nausea sets in
Sometimes I feel strong enough to be unsettled by art, but not today.
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This England: Absolutely binned
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Alice Boyes Q&A: “I wish people didn’t constantly talk about how exhausting parenting is”
The former clinical psychologist speaks about the value of thinking differently, border restrictions in New Zealand and her experience…
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