Marcus Rashford and the new political football
We are witnessing something entirely new: the rise of the activist super-player.
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Political football
Brazil’s heart of darkness
With soaring Covid-19 death rates and an authoritarian president, a solution to Brazil’s political crisis seems more out of…
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The hot war in the east
Seventy years ago, on 25 June 1950, North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel, starting the Korean War. The…
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The state we’re in
How the pandemic has exposed the institutional failings of British governance.
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Vera Lynn didn’t sing about war – she sang about hope
The Forces’ Sweetheart eventually came to embody a nostalgia for the “Blitz spirit”, but her best music strikes a more…
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The greats outdoors: How spiritualism and race coexist in the moodscapes of Richard Mayhew
The landscape paintings of the 96-year-old black American artist.
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More Or Less: BBC Radio 4’s never-ending number-crunching show
The myth-busting show with more episodes than Star Wars.
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Why Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads is past its sell-by date
It isn’t only thanks to the passage of time that Bennett-land seems so anachronistic now.
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Carl Franklin’s 1995 film Devil in a Blue Dress is a sexy, rich take on neo-noir
Why Devil in a Blue Dress should’ve been a hit.
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The freedom of driving
How driverless cars curtail our joy and autonomy to serve Silicon Valley’s voracious surveillance capitalism.
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The art of political writing
Bernardine Evaristo, Colson Whitehead, Edna O’Brien and more Orwell Prize-shortlisted writers explain how politics informs their prose.
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It Can’t Matter to You
A new poem by Isobel Dixon.
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What I have come to miss most is spitting in each other’s faces, otherwise known as talking
Zoom meetings, although necessary, are void of the comfort that comes with shaking hands or kissing someone before a conversation.
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Trump may have just endured a comically bad week, but that doesn’t make him a joke
His critics may be tempted to laugh, but Trump has shown, time and again, that he is not so easy…
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The EU, India and Russia do not want to pick sides in a US-China contest, but they may have to
The biggest question mark is over which way Russia might go.
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I’m sad to turn 30 during lockdown – and yet I have no qualms about leaving my twenties
The only thing making me feel unsettled is my confusion about where to draw the line between girlhood and womanhood.
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Alison Phillips’ Diary: Why kids must return to school, and the need for diversity in the newsroom
Leading paediatricians have warned that not sending kids back is risking the life chances of a generation.
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The NHS app has been abandoned but no app is necessary to trace government ineptitude
An ongoing study already provides a daily picture of Covid-19 in the UK – yet the government has failed to…
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Tory MPs backed Boris Johnson as a natural winner. But they now worry he is incapable of governing
Between the tricky tasks of reviving the economy and navigating Brexit, many Conservative MPs fear the only way is down.
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My sister and I were inseparable as children. How did we end up so distant as adults?
Now I wonder if I’ve lost the chance to repair what’s gradually come undone.
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Life without football has been purgatory, but does it matter as much without the crowd?
I used to tell myself that I am such a fan I can watch any two teams kicking a…
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The best cookbooks for those who want to learn more about under-celebrated African cuisine
A few suggestions to dive into what The Groundnut Cookbook describes as “some of the best food on the planet”.
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Michael Eavis Q&A: “I first heard ‘Movin’ On Up’ in the milking parlour”
The founder of Glastonbury Festival talks Harold Macmillan, Paul McCartney, and the best speech ever delivered on the Pyramid Stage.
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Letter of the week: Danger in denying far right
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
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Leader: Don’t waste a crisis
For the second time in little over a decade, the state has been forced to intervene to save the…
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“Imagine the damage a president could cause”: What would happen if Trump refused defeat?
US legal scholar Lawrence Douglas has examined how well prepared American political institutions are for a president who doesn’t…
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Commons confidential: Gavin Williamson and Dominic Cummings display relegation form
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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First Thoughts: Trade deals after Brexit, Vera Lynn’s bluebirds, and the know-nothing right
International Trade Secretary Liz Truss says talks with Australia and New Zealand will pave the way for “a global Britain”.
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The great British train wreck
How Covid-19 could lead to a permanent slump in railway passenger numbers.
By What I have come to miss most is spitting in each other’s faces, otherwise known as talking
Zoom meetings, although necessary, are void of the comfort that comes with shaking hands or kissing someone before a conversation.
By Letter of the week: Danger in denying far right
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
By Commons confidential: Gavin Williamson and Dominic Cummings display relegation form
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
By The NHS app has been abandoned but no app is necessary to trace government ineptitude
An ongoing study already provides a daily picture of Covid-19 in the UK – yet the government has failed to…
By The great British train wreck
How Covid-19 could lead to a permanent slump in railway passenger numbers.
By Tory MPs backed Boris Johnson as a natural winner. But they now worry he is incapable of governing
Between the tricky tasks of reviving the economy and navigating Brexit, many Conservative MPs fear the only way is down.
By “Imagine the damage a president could cause”: What would happen if Trump refused defeat?
US legal scholar Lawrence Douglas has examined how well prepared American political institutions are for a president who doesn’t…
By First Thoughts: Trade deals after Brexit, Vera Lynn’s bluebirds, and the know-nothing right
International Trade Secretary Liz Truss says talks with Australia and New Zealand will pave the way for “a global Britain”.
By Leader: Don’t waste a crisis
For the second time in little over a decade, the state has been forced to intervene to save the…
By Alison Phillips’ Diary: Why kids must return to school, and the need for diversity in the newsroom
Leading paediatricians have warned that not sending kids back is risking the life chances of a generation.
By The EU, India and Russia do not want to pick sides in a US-China contest, but they may have to
The biggest question mark is over which way Russia might go.
By Trump may have just endured a comically bad week, but that doesn’t make him a joke
His critics may be tempted to laugh, but Trump has shown, time and again, that he is not so easy…
By I’m sad to turn 30 during lockdown – and yet I have no qualms about leaving my twenties
The only thing making me feel unsettled is my confusion about where to draw the line between girlhood and womanhood.
By It Can’t Matter to You
A new poem by Isobel Dixon.
By Carl Franklin’s 1995 film Devil in a Blue Dress is a sexy, rich take on neo-noir
Why Devil in a Blue Dress should’ve been a hit.
By Why Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads is past its sell-by date
It isn’t only thanks to the passage of time that Bennett-land seems so anachronistic now.
By More Or Less: BBC Radio 4’s never-ending number-crunching show
The myth-busting show with more episodes than Star Wars.
By The best cookbooks for those who want to learn more about under-celebrated African cuisine
A few suggestions to dive into what The Groundnut Cookbook describes as “some of the best food on the planet”.
By My sister and I were inseparable as children. How did we end up so distant as adults?
Now I wonder if I’ve lost the chance to repair what’s gradually come undone.
By Life without football has been purgatory, but does it matter as much without the crowd?
I used to tell myself that I am such a fan I can watch any two teams kicking a…
By Michael Eavis Q&A: “I first heard ‘Movin’ On Up’ in the milking parlour”
The founder of Glastonbury Festival talks Harold Macmillan, Paul McCartney, and the best speech ever delivered on the Pyramid Stage.
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