Perfect Storm

Leader: The great British sell-off

Newcastle United’s Saudi takeover proves again that it is not just Britain’s assets that are for sale, but its…

Letter of the week: The truth about One Nation

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Kathleen Stock, trans rights and a crisis of free speech in British universities

The more we censor for “good” reasons the more we open the door for those who would censor for…

An inquiry exposes the scale of sex abuse by the Catholic Church. Will the Vatican ever act?

Remorse is not enough. Only reform can fix a broken institution.

Trust me, women don’t need to be reminded to think about having children

We are acutely aware of our own declining fertility. If only the rest of society cared.

Amanda Staveley: the football financier who brought Newcastle to the Saudis

From restaurateur to diplomat-capitalist, who is the deal broker behind the £300m Saudi-Newcastle takeover?

Jess Phillips’ Diary: Waving goodbye to my thirties, and why the government cannot keep women safe

I wonder what the name of the next woman will be, whose death will be presented as the case…

“I didn’t set out to be any kind of icon”: Brenda Hale on becoming an anti-Brexit hero

The Supreme Court justice discusses her spider brooch, women’s equality and why the law is not a political statement.

When God was an alpha male

How the Hebrew deity evolved from predatory strongman to a friend to human frailty.

John le Carré’s aimless final novel

Silverview is a disappointing coda to his Cold War masterpieces.

Jane Goodall’s lucid optimism

The renowned naturalist believes that we can only save the planet with hope.

Reviewed in Short: New books by Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb, Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan, James Dyson and Sarah Hall

What is History, Now? by Carr and Lipscomb, AI 2041 by Lee and Qiufan, Invention by Dyson and Burntcoat…

The NS Poem: Slow Corsage

A new poem by Claire Potter.

Why Middlemarch still matters

Published 150 years ago, George Eliot’s epic humanist novel is the antidote to our witless online world.

How Nicolas Poussin let loose

A sumptuous exhibition shows how the austere classicist found revelry, sex, drunkenness and abandon.

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is a coming-of-age space epic

For all its monsters and skulduggery, this is essentially a story in which a young man dreams of a…

The return of Succession

What does Jesse Armstrong want for his monsters now?

Storytime with Seth Rogen is a fresh take on the celebrity podcast

The show is meandering, with surprising and whimsical production choices that elevate it to more than a chat show.

There is unfathomable hope in building a garden in the face of death

Drawn in by its yellow window frames and low shrubs, Derek Jarman’s former home, Prospect Cottage, is something of…

My worst summer ever is finally over and I sense my old self returning

Perhaps it is the change of season, but I have started to feel better – and I will take…

A confrontation with a pipsqueak leaves me feeling my age

I like to think of myself as someone who is happy in his own skin. But I’m unnerved after…

Should we give puberty blockers to children with gender dysphoria?

Too little is known about the way gender identity forms and evolves in adolescence. To give truly informed consent,…

This England: Petrol Heads

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

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Andrea Bocelli Q&A: “A wise old philosopher once told me not to take advice from anyone”

The opera singer on Puccini, liberty and the law.