The new politics of migration
As conflicts multiply European countries must agree consistent principles for asylum policy, as the alternative is anarchy.
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As conflicts multiply European countries must agree consistent principles for asylum policy, as the alternative is anarchy.
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The barge symbolises Britain’s rotten asylum stalemate – the discovery of Legionella bacteria in its water system only proves…
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Also this week: an oak that will outlive us all and the problem with dogs.
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The US economist and former Monetary Policy Committee member on how Britain became so poor and where Labour is…
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If Keir Starmer makes it to No 10, he will inherit a nation in crisis.
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I find the blind faith of religion unthinkable. Then I remember my servility in love.
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Unable to defeat Ukraine on the battlefield, Vladimir Putin is targeting the next generation.
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Caught between climate change, migration and social upheaval, Niger and the Sahel are the crucible of Western failure.
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The director is a mass entertainer with an elitist disdain for the masses. In his films, order and hierarchy…
ByArtificial intelligence poses a profound challenge to our humanness.
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A new poem by Will Eaves.
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Also featuring The Bay by Julia Rampen and Nowhere To Run by Jonathan Sayer.
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The misunderstood author cared more about skirt-chasing than power politics.
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These reflections of 1970s Sheffield are steeped in the Cold War and the shadow of the Yorkshire Ripper.
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The historian on growing up as “a boy”, her “last” biography, and the joy of having close male friends…
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Olivier Peyon’s new film, adapted from a bestselling gay romance, knows how an early relationship can determine a life.
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I can’t remember the last time I endured a show as relentlessly laboured as this steaming dollop of faux-feminist…
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Gary Lineker’s new podcast offers a stale standard of analysis that barely hovers above that offered by the drunkest…
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As teenagers he got detentions and I ran for head girl – but now he’s doing rather a better…
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I can’t recommend not being abducted and murdered strongly enough. It makes life so much easier.
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This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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The activist on climate change, Lucian Freud, and how The Basement Yard on YouTube keeps her joyful.
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