Liz Truss Unchained

Leader: The cold reality of Trussonomics

Our new prime minister ignores the question of why there are numerous economies that are not only more equal…

Letter of the week: The Proms deserve better

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It’s out with the old – as toadying Tories try to get in with the new

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Why everyone wants to be friends with Edward Enninful

The editor of British Vogue is one of a select few magazine editors who has come to transcend his…

Sasha Swire’s Diary: Sunak’s lucky escape, delusional politicians, and my husband’s fixation with the smart meter

While we wait for government support to deal with surging energy costs, we have installed a smart meter. Bad…

Sabrina Cohen-Hatton: The firefighter using psychology to prevent disaster

The fire chief and behavioural psychologist on how her time sleeping rough has helped her save lives.

We look to the young for a better future – but they are turning away from democracy

Hostility to democracy runs deep because the establishment has failed to uphold its side of the bargain.

Our public realm is being lost to private avarice

A freely available space where you can work, rest and pee – is that too much to ask?

Donna Tartt’s The Secret History at 30

How a bestselling debut novel about a group of murderous students became a cult classic.

Reviewed in short: New books by Jayne Buxton, Edward Enninful, Simon Heffer and Emma Donoghue

The Great Plant-Based Con by Buxton, A Visible Man by Enninful, Henry “Chips” Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3) edited…

The lessons of Corbynism

In their new books, Andrew Murray and James Schneider ask what the left can learn from its time in…

Ed Smith and the courage of conviction

In his new book, the former England cricket team selector recalls what he has learned about doubt and decisions.

Henry Marsh confronts his mortality

As a neurosurgeon, Marsh was comfortable with death. But in his new memoir And Finally, he finds himself on…

Agatha Christie’s secret worlds

After her infamous 11-day disappearance in 1926, the author retreated from public view. Lucy Worsley’s new biography claims to…

Albert Bierstadt unveiled the epic vistas of the American West

The German-born painter cast light on the extraordinary beauty of his adopted homeland.

Sheku Kanneh-Mason: “The cello is a part of you”

The 23-year-old has already played for the royals and tackled the Elgar Cello Concerto. Where does he go from…

David Cronenberg, master of body horror, returns with Crimes of the Future

It’s been 20 years since he dabbled in gore, but the award-winning director is back at the operating table.

Gutsy: this “feminist” series from Hillary and Chelsea Clinton is risible and bizarre

Whether they are meeting feminist superstars, farting clowns or Goldie Hawn, Hils and Chels sound like they hardly know…

What Emily Maitlis did next

The News Agents sees former BBC presenters finding their voice – and also their feet – in the world…

Sporting Notes: At the crease with Harold Pinter

Playing cricket with him for the theatrical team Gaieties CC, I witnessed the great playwright’s passion up close.

The antidote to the horror of air travel is the wonder of a child flying for the first time

I was dreading my flight with two fractious five-year-olds until I was at Heathrow Terminal 2 and remembered a…

With a new resident in Downing Street, I survey 15 years of personal austerity

It is a decade and a half to the day since my life of insecurity and cheap furniture began.

This England: Nature calls

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

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Simon Woolley Q&A: “I often say I am a disciple of Martin Luther King”

The activist on football, Ozark and being adopted.