How to fix Britain’s public health crisis

Leader: The Kremlin’s theory of victory

Despite repeated military failures, Vladimir Putin is signalling that he is prepared to destroy Ukraine rather than back down.

Letter of the Week: The new aristocracy

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Will Boris Johnson’s million-pound donation fund a political comeback?

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Christopher Harborne: the silent donor behind Brexit and Boris Johnson

The Thai-based businessman has given Johnson’s office £1m – the biggest donation ever to an MP. What does he…

Ben Judah’s Diary: time-travelling to the 1970s, leaky Westminster, and getting banned from Russia

Chairing a workshop with French and German politicians, I find that decline is not only a British phobia.

Can Newsnight recapture its lost glory?

With declining viewing numbers and high-profile resignations at the flagship news programme, Victoria Derbyshire speaks on the troubles at…

From radical to reactionary, Paul Johnson came to hate the left but never lost his rage

He’d once been a man of the left – a former editor of the New Statesman, no less –…

Rishi Sunak’s biggest threat from the right isn’t Boris Johnson – it’s Reform UK

With rising support in the polls, Richard Tice’s party could become the future of populist politics in Britain.

As globalisation fragments, politics is again reigning supreme over economics

The golden age of macroeconomists’ influence is over. But don’t expect establishment macro to go quietly.

Divisions over Ukraine are exposing the incoherence of German foreign policy

The departure of Christine Lambrecht is part of a longer trail of woe in the country’s defence ministry.

The Met Police has proved yet again it is a haven for sex offenders

David Carrick used his position to rape and abuse. Why are we surprised?

What Prince Harry’s Spare reveals about the savagery of monarchy 

In his memoir Harry seeks renewal – but his exposé of the cruelty of royalty is driven by rage.

From Edward Stourton to the Wife of Bath: new titles reviewed in short

Also featuring Bad Bridget by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick and Sold Out by James Rickards.

Jon Fosse and the art of tedium

The Norwegian author’s masterwork Septology finds a mysterious beauty in repetition.

What Norman Mailer can teach us

It is right to condemn the writer’s violent chauvinism – but a literature that has lost the power to challenge…

How Nan Shepherd shaped modern nature writing

Snubbed by its first readers, her visionary book The Living Mountain went on to inspire a new literature of…

How the hieroglyphic code was cracked

A new exhibition at the British Museum tells the remarkable story of the deciphering of the Ancient Egyptian script.

Francis Bourgeois and the art of the dealer

The collector’s own talent as a painter was modest, but he amassed enough Old Masters to create Britain’s first…

Damien Chazelle’s Babylon is a spectacular mess

This take on the dark side of 1930s Hollywood is full of dazzling set pieces – but collapses under…

The fierce women doctors of Maternal show that TV drama is moving on

Not so long ago, every successful working woman on screen was either a secret wreck or a man-in-training.

Why Jeff Beck was the best guitarist in the world

Jeff Beck’s astonishing virtuosity was always driven by emotion – and he kept challenging himself until the end.

Why has it taken me so long to form friendships with other women of colour?

There can be more openness between us now. Growing up, we were trying to feign whiteness and scared of…

I am haunted by the fear of being usurped by an artificial intelligence program

With relentlessly miserable weather and inspiration running dry, the last thing I need is a digital doppelgänger.

This England: Cottage pyre

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

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Pico Iyer Q&A: “I feel radiant when staying in a monastery”

The travel writer on Paddington Bear, the joy of watching sport, and finding a cure for jet-lag.