Leader: What the World Cup tells us about power
In sport, as in politics, principles do not count for much if we only observe them when the cost…
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Russian Roulette
Letter of the week: The new resource war
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Boris Johnson is once again shown the door
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The unbearable complacency of the Today programme
Arch presenters, clichéd reporting, soft interviews: no wonder BBC Radio 4’s stale morning show is rapidly losing listeners.
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The lessons of a housing tragedy, writing through rail chaos, and why good manners cost nowt
The death of Awaab Ishak should shame the nation, and must be a defining moment for the housing sector.
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Georgina Sturge: “The numbers don’t count. People do”
The House of Commons statistician discusses how flawed figures are shaping politics and her new book Bad Data.
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Keeping quiet on Brexit is a shrewd move for Labour now, but a strategic disaster in the long term
What is the opposition’s thinking about Britain’s place in the world?
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The Ukraine war is shifting Europe’s balance of power from west to east
For the first time since 1989, central and eastern states are spearheading the continent’s response to a major crisis.
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The Qatar World Cup is a moral disaster – is it braver to step away, or step inside?
Nothing that happens on the pitch can possibly salvage the horrors that brought this tournament about.
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Is Volodymyr Zelensky losing the support of the West?
The Ukrainian president’s response to the Poland missile incident highlighted tensions with some Western leaders at a time when…
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Jens Stoltenberg: “We will support Ukraine for as long as it takes”
Nato’s secretary-general on why Europe faces its most dangerous moment since the Second World War.
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Inside the Twittering machine
Will Elon Musk turn Twitter from a dysfunctional social media platform into a new kind of digital dystopia?
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Fascism’s liberal admirers
Austerity is a fiction designed to uphold capitalism – and it has a dark history.
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The NS Poem: The Mad
A new poem by Will Eaves.
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From Lisa Nandy to An Yu: recent books reviewed in short
Also featuring a biography of Peter Beard and White Torture by Narges Mohammadi.
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The Light We Carry: Michelle Obama’s self-help slogans
In converting her life story into self-empowering bromides, the former first lady has exposed the limits of her politics.
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What Don DeLillo saw coming
In 1985, White Noise captured America’s nascent attention economy. Can an $80m Netflix adaptation live up to his vision?
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She Said is a myopic, timid and trivial attempt at a #MeToo movie
This film about the fall of Harvey Weinstein has no answers for Hollywood’s sexual abuse problem. It’s too afraid…
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The women who shaped modernism
A new exhibition at the Royal Academy reveals how a formidable group of artists brought new perspectives to 20th-century…
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The Knives Out sequel Glass Onion is a murder mystery that skewers the wealthy
Daniel Craig has just as much fun in this whodunnit, which sees “disruptors” gather mid-pandemic on the private island…
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Hugo Blick’s masterful drama The English has left me in slack-jawed awe
I love how Emily Blunt holds a gun in this ultraviolent, suspenseful series set in the American West in…
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How The Shipping Forecast became the nation’s favourite lullaby
In the BBC podcast The Sleeping Forecast, the distinctive maritime weather report is read over classical music – with…
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What Charles and Camilla’s dirty phone call taught us about the English language
In The Crown’s reimagining of the intimate exchange, the future King’s longing for linguistic purism caught my ear.
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The Chancellor takes me back to 2013, Watership Down and being in love
In growth terms we are being taken back a decade – as I struggle with Microsoft Teams I wonder…
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This England: Flight of fancy
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Cho Nam-joo Q&A: “I want to live without colliding with humans”
The South Korean novelist on K-pop, regretting the future and escaping to another planet.
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