Signs of the times
China and Russia are committed to upending the US-led international order. How should the West respond?
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Easter Special
Letter of the week: Parental contribution
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Jacob Rees-Mogg shuns the barbarians at the gates
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Can Humza Yousaf put the broken SNP back together?
A doubtful Scotland is watching and waiting.
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The chaotic return of the Trump circus, and why Americans can’t see the point of King Charles III
Despite facing criminal investigations, the former president’s poll ratings are rising. He is a master at gaming the media.
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John Curtice on how the Tories are “stuffed”
Britain’s TV polling icon on spats with Labour, the UK reversing Brexit, and why the Union is “in trouble”.
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With No 10 now in calmer hands, it will no longer be the focus of national contempt
It is time for the critical domestic issues plaguing the UK to be addressed, such as poor housing stock…
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Germany has taken over Britain’s role as leader of the EU’s awkward squad
Olaf Scholz’s insistence on reopening the debate on fuel-driven cars was Cameron-esque in its pettiness and its short-sightedness.
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The right have a secret: they are the true snowflakes
Culture warriors can’t help but display the behaviour they seek to criticise. Listen to them, then throw their words…
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Mesut Özil was a stylist who lost his way in the new era of measurement and numbers
The 34-year-old football player’s retirement feels both premature and long overdue.
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Is the future of Christianity African?
How immigration is revitalising British churches.
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Boris Johnson the clown’s first encore
Before the parliamentary Privileges Committee, he hunched his shoulders like an actor playing Churchill. But the music had stopped.…
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What the adder means
The attention you bring to bear on the landscape as you look for Britain’s only venomous snake is transformative.
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Social media is taking a dangerous toll on teenage girls
The evidence is now clear: smartphones are the major cause of the mental illness epidemic among young women.
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Letter from Kinmen: Taiwan is already under attack
The West’s focus on a Chinese invasion ignores the real struggle.
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Once upon a time in Wakefield
The truth about one white 14-year-old schoolboy and a Koran is less straightforward than the culture war narrative suggests.
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The IRA’s blank assassin
The Brighton bomb killed five people but failed to hit its target, Margaret Thatcher.
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Where are all the good books on sex?
Polly Barton’s “oral history” of porn shows the myopia of cultural criticism drawn from personal experience. We desperately need…
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The best children’s books for spring 2023
Find animal magic and globe-trotting thrills in new books for young readers.
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George Eliot’s marriage plot
In her work, the novelist developed a radical philosophy of relationships. In her life, she put it into practice.
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From Skin & Blister
A new poem by Blake Morrison.
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Going native
How Matthew Goodwin became part of the right-populist movement he once sought to explain.
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The limits of humanism
How do we reconcile our capacity for good and evil? Humanist thinking does not have all the answers.
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Joan Bakewell: “I can live with death – how odd”
As the broadcaster approaches 90, she reflects on her mother, the media and “her version” of her affair with…
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How Christopher Wren built Britain
He became the nation’s greatest architect – but studied astronomy and anatomy first. To Wren, building was a three-dimensional…
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God’s Creatures is a powerful portrait of a toxic mother-son relationship
Paul Mescal and Emily Watson bring inner darkness to this story of trauma in a tiny Irish town.
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The BBC’s new Great Expectations is so bad it should be illegal
Steven Knight’s crass, sexed-up version of the novel strips it of all its humour and tenderness. Does he think…
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Searching for the “ghost children” missing from schools
Terri White’s new BBC series examines the impact of lockdowns on the children told to “stay at home”, when…
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A garden should primarily be for enjoyment
New gardeners should first ask themselves how they want their space to feel, before seeking advice on what to…
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A childlike wonder at the world’s everyday beauty is best left to grown-ups
I feel the more experience we have of the world – not less – the more deeply we feel…
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Football was never a truly amateur game, but now even the supporting cast are raking it in
Tottenham Hotspur’s Daniel Levy currently tops the lot with a salary of £3.3m. Well done Daniel, and without kicking…
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I have little love for Boris Johnson and am mortified to realise we have traits in common
Amid the greased piglet’s bluster, bloviating and shameless evasions, I see something terribly familiar.
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This England: On the silk road
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Maggie O’Farrell’s Q&A: “If I wasn’t a writer I would be irritable and thwarted”
The author and Women’s Prize winner on her hero Tove Jansson, Aneurin Bevan and her elderly cat.
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