Israel vs Iran

The new age of global threats

For decades, the West enjoyed the fruits of the post-Cold War “peace dividend”. This era is now definitively over.

Letter of the week: Maternal responsibility

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Plebgate’s Andrew Mitchell furnishes himself with a downmarket ministerial title

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Rage and conspiracy on Trump’s trail

At a rally in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, a fervid former president kept his audience rapt. Suburbs like this will soon…

Why I was banned from Germany

In the name of protecting Israel’s security, the German government has sunk to farcical new authoritarian lows.

Charles Duhigg: “We’ve forgotten the rules of communication”

The author and journalist on how to build a rapport with people.

The Angela Rayner tax row spells real danger for Labour

It may be Tory deflection, but the story’s chief target is Keir Starmer: can he be portrayed as weak…

Abortion rights will be worse under Trump

The former president created the chaos and cruelty of America’s reproductive restrictions. And they will only intensify in a…

Ukraine is Europe’s problem now

Germany expects a long war of attrition in Ukraine. That is a war Putin is likely to win.

Katharine Birbalsingh’s prayer ban is a victory for tolerance

The Michaela School head teacher is right: secular measures prevent, rather than inflame, religious prejudice.

The fight to save the fractured Union

In an age of political alienation and resurgent nationalism, can the United Kingdom still hold?

The perils of polyamory

Molly Roden Winter’s riveting, explicit memoir More makes the case for open marriage as self-help – but her logic…

How America bought up Britain

From assets to businesses, the high street to the internet, US investors have a stranglehold on Britain’s economy.

Andrew O’Hagan’s maximum city

Caledonian Road is a brick of a novel lobbed at the towering glass houses of London.

Percival Everett’s American absurd

The author behind American Fiction on rewriting Mark Twain, the evolution of racism, and his addiction to irony.

The Book of Clarence is a bombastic biblical satire

Jeymes Samuel’s comedy is both a playful riff on the religious epic and a witty homage to sword-and-sandals films.

Tom Hollander’s deliciously nasty Truman Capote

In Feud: Capote vs the Swans, the actor is unpleasant to behold: a campy, sweaty homunculus. It’s a joy…

Inside Northern Ireland’s satanic panic

John Meagher: The Divil’s Own is a mind-boggling tale of collective nightmares, visions and ghosts.

Schumann and the arrival of spring

How the composer moved from riotously original piano music to the light-footed symphony that made his name.

In wine’s culture war, we’ve all been winners

The natural movement took on the rule-choked wine establishment, and has changed drinks culture for the better.

Should you join the 2024 gold rush?

The metal beloved of pirates and 1930s governments is booming. But investing in a volatile commodity always carries risk.

Weighing the options in a country where nothing works any more

Should I give it another quarter of an hour, or cut my losses, get off the train, and drink…

Why we make art

In Amsterdam, in the Van Gogh museum gift shop, I wonder: is this what we call success?

This England: May the farce be with you

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

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Peter Frankopan Q&A: “If you want to write good history, read lots of novels”

The historian on retro football, easy-listening classics, and his favourite Byzantine emperor.