Never-Ending Chaos

Has Britain become an ungovernable country?

We do not know who we are, where we are going, or how we might get there

The speech that failed to save the Prime Minister

The Prime Minister has had one last go at turning his leadership off and on again

Petrolheads could be the Tories’ salvation

At the vintage Ford Festival I find some of England’s truest Conservatives 

Letter of the week: Citizens of somewhere

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A trip home to Farage country

Also: alternative medicines, and lessons from Imperial China

Run, Angela Rayner, run

Also: my new podcast, and working with Morgan McSweeney

Never-ending chaos

Inside the two dramatic days that nearly brought down Keir Starmer 

My fears for a divided kingdom

We must stand against both anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hate

Labour’s Reform defectors are never coming back

After years of neglecting progressives, the party must learn there is no such thing as a “hero voter”.

How Labour can win again

Working-class voters did not abandon the party – we have forced them to leave

Jan-Werner Müller’s unfinished monument

Müller’s Street, Palace, Square feels full of unrealised potential

How Charles Darwin humbled mankind

In his greatest work, published 150 years ago, Darwin destroyed our metaphysical status in an instant

How the culture wars began

The Frankfurt School’s ideas have given rise to a conspiracy theory that “cultural Marxism” is destroying the West

Stephen King is our Dickens

The American best-seller is the pre-eminent horror writer of our time

Nelio Biedermann is no wunderkind

He should have waited until he was 30 to publish Lazar

Why the British do it worse

John Kampfner argues our self-defeating “hang-ups” stop us learning from our closest neighbours

Ian McKellen thrills in The Christophers

The actor’s performance as a jaded painter is among his career-best

How WWE replaced reality

Donald Trump takes his political instincts not from history but from the pageantry of the squared circle

The artefacts of American life

A new radio show recounts America’s history through afterthoughts and left-behinds

The Everyman: cinemas make bad restaurants

Put down the halloumi and wait until the film is over, please 

Beer and sandwiches: Fitzgerald’s in Dublin

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Billie Eilish likes my mate’s band

The popstar’s praise “fucked up” Black Box Recorder’s retirement

Cracking down on airport pints won’t help anyone

The impact would be yet another prohibition on an already draconian transit experience

July 1965: Will immigration come to dominate British politics?