Great Power Play

Leader: The shortage society

Rising gas prices show that Brexit politics and pandemic economics could push Britain into a cost-of-living crisis.

Letter of the week: Britain’s break-ups

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What Liz Truss learned from Jeremy Corbyn

The Foreign Secretary was inspired by the former Labour leader to rebuild her political brand with a clear ideology…

The key to success for Labour is to move with the times

In a changed world, the party is unsure quite what – or who – it stands for.

The Larry Nassar abuse case shows why people believe conspiracy theories

For two decades authorities missed multiple opportunities to stop Nassar – failure which seems to go beyond simple incompetence.

The symbolic politics of Judith Butler are all very well, but sometimes reality interjects

Events at the Wi Spa in Los Angeles reveal what can happen when academic gender theorising is imposed on…

How Aukus upended Emmanuel Macron’s grand plan

France was furious at its exclusion from the new alliance – but its posturing about strategic independence from the…

Victoria Newton’s Diary: An evening with Prince William, and how the Labour Party could win again

Keir Starmer needs to refocus on what matters to people – such as the cost of living, helping their…

Michael Sandel interview: “Joe Biden has broken with neoliberalism”

The political philosopher on Lionel Messi’s luck and the tyranny of meritocracy.

How to win the virtue game

The morality contests of the online world and our relentless pursuit of status.

Labour after the flood

Three new books assess a party still reeling from the collapse of the Red Wall in 2019.

Reviewed in short: New books by Ben Mezrich, Eve Livingston, Billie Jean King and Maggie Nelson

The Antisocial Network by Mezrich, Make Bosses Pay by Livingston, All In by Jean King and On Freedom by…

Paula Hawkins’s very British murders

The author of The Girl on The Train writes voyeuristic thrillers that situate crime among the comforts of English…

How Nirvana’s Nevermind spoke to an alienated generation

On the band’s defining second album, Kurt Cobain found a golden ratio between melody and noise.

Leon Dabo’s pictures of nothing

For the 20th century painter, landscapes were less real places than elusive moods.

The Many Saints of Newark: an origin story for an anti-hero

David Chase’s The Sopranos spin-off takes the story back in time. Call it Tony Soprano’s Hannibal Rising.

Sex Actually with Alice Levine goes inside the pandemic sex industry

This line of work isn’t all feather pillows and baby oil.

Who says women can’t be hench?

BBC Radio 4’s Powerhouse injects a feminist-first brand of humour into the world of women’s weightlifting.

Our approach to Australian wine – and history – needs to change

There is the obstinate belief that Australian wines are all cheap and cheerful fruit bombs. Why?

I had two beers and didn’t enjoy them. Something is seriously wrong

It’s a funny business, suffering from the after-effects of Covid. If indeed I am.

Newly single, I’ve fallen back in love with my own life

Some argue that, with honourable exceptions, it is generally better for young, straight women to be single. I’m beginning…

This England: Like father, like daughter

This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…

After 72 managerless days, Spurs were desperate. Then, my phone rang…

“Hi Hunt, how you doing?” Dan Levy said. “How would you like to manage Spurs?”

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Martin Rees Q&A: “There is a widening gap between the way the world is and the way it could be”

The astrophysicist on life at Cambridge, GK Chesterton’s advice, and fearing the worst for the planet.