Russia’s War on the Future

The new politics of migration

As conflicts multiply European countries must agree consistent principles for asylum policy, as the alternative is anarchy.

Letter of the week: The secondary sex

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All aboard the Bibby Stockholm

The barge symbolises Britain’s rotten asylum stalemate – the discovery of Legionella bacteria in its water system only proves…

Why the rich just keep getting richer

Also this week: an oak that will outlive us all and the problem with dogs.

Adam Posen: “Brexit is a trade war by the UK on itself”

The US economist and former Monetary Policy Committee member on how Britain became so poor and where Labour is…

Labour’s caution could turn to radicalism in office

If Keir Starmer makes it to No 10, he will inherit a nation in crisis.

Obedience, disobedience and the demands of the Catholic Church

I find the blind faith of religion unthinkable. Then I remember my servility in love.

The human era is ending

Artificial intelligence poses a profound challenge to our humanness.

The NS Poem: Lifelong

A new poem by Will Eaves.

From Tom Holland to Deborah Bonello: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring The Bay by Julia Rampen and Nowhere To Run by Jonathan Sayer.

Milan Kundera’s sexual revolutions

The misunderstood author cared more about skirt-chasing than power politics.

Catherine Taylor’s The Stirrings: a memoir of girlhood in a time of rebellion

These reflections of 1970s Sheffield are steeped in the Cold War and the shadow of the Yorkshire Ripper.

Antonia Fraser: “I don’t like being unpopular”

The historian on growing up as “a boy”, her “last” biography, and the joy of having close male friends…

Lie With Me is a wildly romantic story of lost love

Olivier Peyon’s new film, adapted from a bestselling gay romance, knows how an early relationship can determine a life.

Henpocalypse! How did this painful dildo-wielding comedy make it to air?

I can’t remember the last time I endured a show as relentlessly laboured as this steaming dollop of faux-feminist…

The Rest is Football should be sent off

Gary Lineker’s new podcast offers a stale standard of analysis that barely hovers above that offered by the drunkest…

My once feckless brother has landed my dream life

As teenagers he got detentions and I ran for head girl – but now he’s doing rather a better…

At five foot nothing and ex-SAS, P— was considerably more menacing than his height

I can’t recommend not being abducted and murdered strongly enough. It makes life so much easier.

This England: That takes the cake

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

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Gina Martin Q&A: “The fear of societal collapse can feel like torture”

The activist on climate change, Lucian Freud, and how The Basement Yard on YouTube keeps her joyful.