How to get to net zero
World leaders have been told they need to reduce carbon emissions to nil by 2050 to avoid environmental disaster.…
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Europe after Brexit
The surge of Sinn Féin
Ireland’s two main centre-right parties have held the balance of power for nearly a century. But are voters prepared…
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How the EU can survive Brexit
There are tensions between Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel – but unless France and Germany can work together the bloc…
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Andrea Levy, my brilliant friend
Remembering the novelist, one year after her death.
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The pseudoscience of hate
Genetics does not recognise race as a biologically meaningful concept, but that doesn’t stop racists invoking its findings.
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The voice of the Jewish East End
The neglected postwar fiction of Alexander Baron.
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Eimear McBride: “When you experience grief as a child, death is always really close”
The novelist on grief, politics and the dumbing-down of fiction.
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Philip Hensher’s A Small Revolution in Germany: loping and loquacious
In Hensher’s latest, wide-ranging novel, discipline has disappeared and vice reigns.
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Kapka Kassabova’s To the Lake: a vivid blend of travelogue, history and memoir
Tracing the contours of Balkan lakes by boat, foot and car, this book tells the lyrical stories of the…
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NS recommends: New books from Toby Ferris, Kiley Reid and Saskia Hamilton
Ferris’s Short Life in a Strange World, Reid’s Such a Fun Age and Saskia Hamilton’s edit of The Dolphin…
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Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning thriller Parasite is awe-inspiring
Parasite works as entertainment and analysis, treat and treatise.
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The ghost of Dr Richard Beeching
The ongoing battle over British railways.
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Lobby hacks, the sacking of Alastair Stewart, and why stairs are deadlier than flu
The parliamentary lobby fear losing their monopoly over political news. That’s a good thing.
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From the Black Mountains to God’s Own Junkyard: The unlikely rise of a neon lighting giant
Sign maker Matthew Bracey on Europe’s largest neon lighting company, and his family’s journey from Soho strip clubs to Instagram stardom.
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Commons Confidential: Zac Goldsmith’s Eton messy writing
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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A radical love of country
Can patriotism save the left?
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Letter of the week: Nothing compares to a book
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
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When debate about racism is reduced to sound bites, perhaps the word has outgrown its usefulness
The modern news economy thrives on argument, polarisation and shock value.
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Labour faces a painful reckoning: those who enabled Corbynism can’t be trusted with its future
No other Labour leader has sympathised with the IRA or similar terrorist organisations, much less had truck with anti-Semitism.
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Homelessness in Ireland is at crisis point, and the vitriol shown towards homeless people is just as shocking
It would be difficult not to capture someone homeless if you took a picture more or less anywhere in Dublin…
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David Lidington’s Diary: Plans for the Brexit aftermath, engaging future generations and remembering my mum
For the first time in this country there now exists a large body of vocal pro-European opinion: the unexpected offspring of…
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China may have built a hospital in ten days, but the country’s rigid efficiency could be its undoing
The communist country is fundamentally lonely, inflexible and led by a coercive state.
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Boris Johnson can do what he wants at home for now, but with the EU it’s another matter
The Prime Minister’s unipolar moment won’t last.
By Commons Confidential: Zac Goldsmith’s Eton messy writing
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
By When debate about racism is reduced to sound bites, perhaps the word has outgrown its usefulness
The modern news economy thrives on argument, polarisation and shock value.
By Labour faces a painful reckoning: those who enabled Corbynism can’t be trusted with its future
No other Labour leader has sympathised with the IRA or similar terrorist organisations, much less had truck with anti-Semitism.
By Homelessness in Ireland is at crisis point, and the vitriol shown towards homeless people is just as shocking
It would be difficult not to capture someone homeless if you took a picture more or less anywhere in Dublin…
By The ghost of Dr Richard Beeching
The ongoing battle over British railways.
By Kapka Kassabova’s To the Lake: a vivid blend of travelogue, history and memoir
Tracing the contours of Balkan lakes by boat, foot and car, this book tells the lyrical stories of the…
By David Lidington’s Diary: Plans for the Brexit aftermath, engaging future generations and remembering my mum
For the first time in this country there now exists a large body of vocal pro-European opinion: the unexpected offspring of…
By Philip Hensher’s A Small Revolution in Germany: loping and loquacious
In Hensher’s latest, wide-ranging novel, discipline has disappeared and vice reigns.
By A radical love of country
Can patriotism save the left?
By NS recommends: New books from Toby Ferris, Kiley Reid and Saskia Hamilton
Ferris’s Short Life in a Strange World, Reid’s Such a Fun Age and Saskia Hamilton’s edit of The Dolphin…
By Lobby hacks, the sacking of Alastair Stewart, and why stairs are deadlier than flu
The parliamentary lobby fear losing their monopoly over political news. That’s a good thing.
By From the Black Mountains to God’s Own Junkyard: The unlikely rise of a neon lighting giant
Sign maker Matthew Bracey on Europe’s largest neon lighting company, and his family’s journey from Soho strip clubs to Instagram stardom.
By Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning thriller Parasite is awe-inspiring
Parasite works as entertainment and analysis, treat and treatise.
By Letter of the week: Nothing compares to a book
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
By China may have built a hospital in ten days, but the country’s rigid efficiency could be its undoing
The communist country is fundamentally lonely, inflexible and led by a coercive state.
By Boris Johnson can do what he wants at home for now, but with the EU it’s another matter
The Prime Minister’s unipolar moment won’t last.
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