Leader: Labour’s epic humbling
After nearly a decade of austere and divisive Conservative government, the Labour Party has endured its worst general election…
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After nearly a decade of austere and divisive Conservative government, the Labour Party has endured its worst general election…
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A party secures near-hegemonic power by building a wide electoral coalition. It purports to be centrist or conservative but…
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Being appointed chief secretary to the Treasury is generally a sign that the prime minister has plans for you.…
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No established politician in any European democracy has achieved over the past few years what Boris Johnson did in…
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Boris Johnson is the dog that caught the airplane. He has broken every rule – from lying to hiding…
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The first (and I’m not prepared to say last) time I stood in an election, I was 17. The…
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That Labour lost the Don Valley and gained Putney is emblematic of a larger problem. The crux of post-Brexit…
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In 1 January 2014, I went to the local cinema to see The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and convinced…
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I have never been very good at predicting how election campaigns will unfold, but in years past I could…
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So Brightly at the Last Ian Shircore Clive James’s recent death unleashed a tide of obituaries that stressed how…
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Nisha Ramayya’s first book is a welcome affirmation of the feminist power to be found in Hinduism. It reclaims…
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“If I ask you to write a story,” says the novelist Richard Beard, “you might find it impossible. But…
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“Retail car parks are created for the facilitation of purchases within the store,” writes Gareth Rees, “but they are…
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There’s a fashion for adapting the life stories of interesting women from the past, focusing on their struggles to…
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Earlier this year a select group of journalists was allowed into the office of Ren Zheng-fei, the reclusive founder…
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Do you believe in Cats? A rumour began circulating online recently that there is in fact no film-of-the-musical-of-the-poems, and…
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There’s a chill and melancholy running through the best of the seasonal radio. Horatio Clare’s exceptional three-part piece of “slow…
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There is a place I like to visit at this time of year, a narrow plot of land at…
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Unlike Boris Johnson on the campaign trail, I like to tell the truth. What to say, then, on the…
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I am in Grenada, staying at the Calabash hotel, looking back at the season so far, but still watching…
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Throughout the election campaign, the NHS was the biggest issue alongside Brexit. We were warned that a Boris Johnson…
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Elif Shafak was born in 1971 in Strasbourg and is the author of 11 books. In 2006 she faced…
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