Russia’s War Goes Global

Leader: The West’s new purpose

Although Western politicians no longer aspire to reorder the world, we have seen that they are not helpless against…

Letter of the week: Renewed world order

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Volunteer refugee hosts shame the Home Office

While Priti Patel’s department ties itself in knots, communities are desperate to help people fleeing Ukraine.

Peter Wilby’s Diary: Remembering Bruce Page and how to house Ukrainians in need

The former editor of the New Statesman, who has died aged 85, had an unrivalled capacity for absorbing investigative…

“Darwin’s cultural bias was laced into his science”: Lucy Cooke on why evolutionary biology needs feminism

In her new book Bitch, the zoologist re-evaluates the myth of female submission in the animal kingdom.

Britain cannot continue behaving as though Europe ceased to exist after Brexit

The UK is not going to rejoin the EU, but a European turn is perfectly possible as fresh currents…

Putin believes he is defending Orthodox Christianity from the godless West

By supporting the war, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow has both normalised sinful behaviour and polluted Russian Christian identity.

Caught between Putin and the West, Xi Jinping faces a crucial choice on Russia

To walk away from Beijing’s relationship with Moscow, Xi would have to admit he had made a mistake –…

How a new wave of literature is reclaiming spinsterhood

The unmarried woman has long been derided in popular culture and beyond. Now single women are telling their side…

The NS Poem: Inside Grief, There is a Field

A new poem by CL O’Dell.

Reviewed in short: New books from Cathy O’Neil, Tove Ditlevsen, Okechukwu Nzelu and Anthony Barnett

The Shame Machine by O’Neil, The Trouble With Happiness and Other Stories by Ditlevsen, Here Again Now by Nzelu…

Life Support: a “pound-shop diatribe” against the principles of the NHS

Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott claim to be “critical friends” of the NHS, but their disingenuous new book reveals…

How Global Britain props up Putin’s gangster state

Oliver Bullough’s Butler to the World shows how the UK’s enthusiasm for deregulation has made it a global haven…

How Roelandt Savery gathered together the wonders of the natural world

Using what he encountered both in art and on his travels, the Flemish painter produced pictures that froth with…

The Phantom of the Open is a very British tribute to failure

Mark Rylance is charming as the golf hoaxer Maurice Flitcroft, but there’s not quite enough here to sustain a…

ITV crime series Holding: if Midsomer Murders were set in West Cork

This series creaks and lists like an old wooden dinghy – but there is one thing that makes it…

How Sting is still keeping listeners spellbound

In his new radio drama, I Must Have Loved You, the musician weaves snatches of his acoustic ballads around…

How flowers have always grown among the devastation of war

Sunflowers have been part of Ukraine’s cultural identity for centuries, and since the Russian invasion they have come to…

We’re told apps, AI and video calls will transform the NHS. What about GPs?

The 111 computer algorithm cannot make diagnoses or manage risk and uncertainty.

Surprisingly for the post-communist era, the “tankie” rises from the mists of history

With a hot flush of embarrassment, I recall singing along to the wartime song “Stalin Wasn’t Stallin'” – at…

Being independent is all well and good, until my arm decides to leave its socket

My skiing holiday is not exactly relaxing, but it is diverting. I don’t care how badly I ski, I’m…

This England: They don’t know beans

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

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Tim Key Q&A: “I consumed The Office like toast”

The actor and comedian on running the London marathon, Volodymyr Zelensky and the joy of the 1986 World Cup.