Leader: The world is all we have
No country can escape the consequences of an overheating planet; if temperatures rise by 2°C-2.6°C, global GDP could fall…
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Our Fragile Future
Letter of the week: A kinder politics
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
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Tories bicker about face masks, but Covid economics is what really divides them
The fiscal measures introduced over the past 18 months have been agonising for many Conservatives – particularly Rishi Sunak.
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Don’t legalise assisted dying to honour my friend Frank Field. Do it because it’s right
The former MP has revealed he is dying. But Frank is not a sentimental man; he will not want…
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Cop26 is the world’s best chance to solve the climate crisis. It may also be its last
As my home city Glasgow welcomes the global elite, leaders must arrive ready to turn promises into action.
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The UK-EU relationship is unravelling before Keir Starmer’s eyes – but still he ties himself in knots over Brexit
The latest Brexit talks raise the issue of Irish nationalism – which is especially divisive within Westminster, and above…
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Boris Johnson’s recklessness over Covid-19 has led to a new NHS crisis
We are desperate to treat everyone and are failing to do so – because we have been set up…
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A trip to the Caucasus mountains, what the pandemic revealed about power, and Putin’s fear
I can’t help but wonder how the Russian president, otherwise so enamoured with risk, can be so terrified of…
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Dehenna Davison: “If you go to conference you see just how gay the Conservative Party is”
The 28-year-old Tory MP for Bishop Auckland discusses the Red Wall and bisexuality.
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The price of the planet: who will step up at Cop26?
As world leaders gather in Glasgow, richer nations must agree who pays the bill for climate action.
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Why the so-called “energy crisis” is both a threat and an opportunity
This is a moment to accelerate the transition towards net zero, not to retreat.
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What we lost: writers on the climate crisis
As the planet heats, our natural world is rapidly changing. Seven leading names recall a loss in their lifetime.
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How science conquered climate change denial
Experts and activists battled the fossil fuel lobby to establish the facts of global warming.
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The NS Poem: A Tree
A new poem by Graham Mort.
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Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir is a story of prejudice and perseverance
Manifesto reminds us of the importance of not losing hope.
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Peter Thiel: Big Tech’s dark prophet
How the billionaire entrepreneur and libertarian grasped the fundamental truth of capitalism.
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Reviewed in short: New books by Ken Worpole, Craig Whitlock, Mary Roach and Ilya Kaminsky
No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen by Worpole, The Afghanistan Papers by Whitlock, Animal Vegetable Criminal by Roach…
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How Chiura Obata combined the traditions of Japanese and American art
The painter made a career that melded the oriental and occidental styles.
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The plush overkill of Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho
This Sixties psychological horror is full of pieces that don’t quite fit, and an awful lot of neon.
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Stephen Merchant’s new series The Outlaws is uneven and unfunny
The “jokes” are so laboured, you half expect someone off stage to whack an imaginary cymbal – a signal…
ByThis is the central question of Kitchens, a thought-provoking six-part mini-series by Lucy Dearlove, which forms part of her…
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To be alone in Norway’s highlands is to remember what it is to be human
On the high tundra, everything is different in deep winter – particularly the thick carpet of uninterrupted white snow.
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If you’re struggling to see your GP, it doesn’t mean they are “hiding” from you
Medical practices are not refusing to care, the problem is a GP recruitment and and retention crisis. There is…
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This England: Arias of torture
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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I am currently deaf. Is this it from now on, I wonder, one thing failing after another?
About the only upside that I can see is that I can’t hear various right-wing politicians, not to mention…
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Our words for describing the climate are changing – can they spur us to action?
These small shifts may seem academic, but grasping the urgency of the environmental emergency in time requires good storytelling;…
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Bill McKibben Q&A: “Are we doomed? It depends how hard we fight”
The environmentalist on Bernie Sanders, working for the New Yorker, and why he is wishing for deep winters.
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