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By Bloodlust in Belfast: David Keenan’s new novel of the Troubles
For the Good Times is a book that blasts into consciousness in Belfast in the 1970s, the era of…
By Commons Confidential: Corbyn’s eviction notices
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
By Editor’s Note: Power leaks from Corbyn and May, the condition of England, and summer days in winter
The Brexit debacle has revealed what was already evident: that the UK is fragmenting and both our electoral and…
By Letter of the week: TV news should stick to facts
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
By How the Spring party is reviving the Polish left
The new left-wing party aspires to remake Poland as a secular, diverse and egalitarian country.
By The post-crash era is no time for centrism
The free-market model is broken: merely trying to tweak it, as the Independent Group proposes, is futile.
By Maurizio Sarri: How the “Taliban trainer” lost control
The Chelsea manager’s name has become a punchline for abject powerlessness.
By A trip with the acid countess: Amanda Feilding and the medical case for drugs reform
From self-experimentation in the Sixties to scientific breakthroughs in mental health, the psychedelics pioneer is still pushing the boundaries.
By Reasons to love Olivia Colman
Lauded by critics and colleagues alike, Colman has slowly but surely gained a glittering reputation.
By Isaiah Berlin and the man who saved him from obscurity
How Henry Hardy single-handedly transformed Berlin into one of our best known intellectuals.
By Luciana Berger’s Diary: Saying goodbye to Labour, outpourings of support and pineapple pitta at Nando’s
In the year since British Jews protested outside parliament against racism in Labour, things have got worse, not better.
By Mouth Full of Blood: the unapologetic essays of Toni Morrison
Essays, speeches and meditations from America’s most decorated living novelist.
By How did our tools for addressing corporate power become so blunt?
In the US and Europe, politicians are once again reckoning with monopolies.
By How animals feel: the complexity of non-human emotions
Why the emotions of animals will be the next great area of study for behavioural science.
By Corbyn has stemmed the flow of defections but it may have cost him the chance to become PM
What changed this week to prompt Corbyn to announce his support for another vote? The creation of, and surge…
By Anne Washburn’s Shipwreck asks: is it too soon to write a play about Donald Trump?
Plus: I’m a Phoenix, Bitch by Bryony Kimmings.
By Charlotte Rampling’s performance in Hannah will bring tears to the eyes
Plus violent Polish mafia blockbuster Kobiety Mafii 2.
By Leader: Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn are putting party before country
The Prime Minister has indulged her party’s Europhobic faction, a force now exposed as a paper tiger; while the…
ByEpisodes cover everything from the beginnings of downhill skiing to the invention of the sports bra.
By Why Alan Partridge is the perfect face of Brexit Britain
Plus: The Satanic Verses: 30 Years On.
By I’ve always loved flamingos, but had no idea they were once found in Staffordshire
After particularly grand storms, that is.
By Watching Agent Mulder busting Eighties rock moves, I’m struck by a strange sense of sincerity
David Duchovny’s moves make his project feel personal – so unpolished, so lumbersome, so unedited and exposed.
By I love it when the silage truck arrives – and I’ve finally worked out why the sheep like it, too
Having read up on it, I can tell you that silage is actually alcoholic.
By Why vitamin D won’t stop people getting ill – no matter what doctors say
In 2016, Public Health England recommended everyone take vitamin D supplements, yet increasing evidence suggests the actual health benefits…
By With the Prem feeling the pinch, it’s time to monetise everything – even players’ tattoos
The clubs are clearly struggling. I was shocked when they only managed to give retiring chairman Richard Scudamore £5m…
By Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss Q&A: “Don’t let the buggers bounce you – that’s crucial“
The judge talks Angela Merkel, standing to be an MP, and Modern slavery.
By Mark Hollis: The sound of silence
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