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.
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For decades, the West enjoyed the fruits of the post-Cold War “peace dividend”. This era is now definitively over.
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Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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At a rally in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, a fervid former president kept his audience rapt. Suburbs like this will soon…
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In the name of protecting Israel’s security, the German government has sunk to farcical new authoritarian lows.
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The author and journalist on how to build a rapport with people.
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It may be Tory deflection, but the story’s chief target is Keir Starmer: can he be portrayed as weak…
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The former president created the chaos and cruelty of America’s reproductive restrictions. And they will only intensify in a…
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Germany expects a long war of attrition in Ukraine. That is a war Putin is likely to win.
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The Michaela School head teacher is right: secular measures prevent, rather than inflame, religious prejudice.
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They bet that direct attacks would not lead to a disastrous escalation. The Middle East is now on the…
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The drone and missile strike conveyed as much weakness as it did strength.
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Why was the prescription of puberty blockers to distressed children allowed to continue for so long?
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In an age of political alienation and resurgent nationalism, can the United Kingdom still hold?
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Molly Roden Winter’s riveting, explicit memoir More makes the case for open marriage as self-help – but her logic…
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From assets to businesses, the high street to the internet, US investors have a stranglehold on Britain’s economy.
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Caledonian Road is a brick of a novel lobbed at the towering glass houses of London.
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The author behind American Fiction on rewriting Mark Twain, the evolution of racism, and his addiction to irony.
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Jeymes Samuel’s comedy is both a playful riff on the religious epic and a witty homage to sword-and-sandals films.
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In Feud: Capote vs the Swans, the actor is unpleasant to behold: a campy, sweaty homunculus. It’s a joy…
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John Meagher: The Divil’s Own is a mind-boggling tale of collective nightmares, visions and ghosts.
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How the composer moved from riotously original piano music to the light-footed symphony that made his name.
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The natural movement took on the rule-choked wine establishment, and has changed drinks culture for the better.
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The metal beloved of pirates and 1930s governments is booming. But investing in a volatile commodity always carries risk.
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Should I give it another quarter of an hour, or cut my losses, get off the train, and drink…
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In Amsterdam, in the Van Gogh museum gift shop, I wonder: is this what we call success?
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This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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The historian on retro football, easy-listening classics, and his favourite Byzantine emperor.
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