Leader: Bringing Big Tech down to Earth
If tech titans want to change the world, they should start by contributing to the public realm.
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Spirit of the Age
Letter of the week: A different class of party
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Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner both have a big problem: each other
Labour’s two most powerful politicians are stuck in a forced political alliance – one defined by mutual suspicion.
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How a left-liberal German coalition could become a Petri dish for progressivism
As party negotiations begin in Berlin, Olaf Scholz seeks to form a “social, ecological, liberal” traffic-light government.
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The Conservative coalition is fragile, but the party will adapt to hold on to power
To people on the left, flexibility sounds like an absence of principles – but for the Tories it is…
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Why New Age puritans are the enemies of progress
From sex to Covid to climate change, some people just really like telling others what to do.
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The power trap: Why the energy crisis is a crisis of politics
The UK paints itself as a leader on climate change – its response to the energy crisis will show…
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Jeremy Bowen’s Diary: Where the West went wrong in Afghanistan, the ruins of Helmand, and my sharp new attire
I first met the Taliban in 1994, two years before they took power. I never thought I would be…
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“Women are in a bigger fight than the suffragettes”: Helen Joyce on the trans debate
The bestselling author on why “gender-critical” feminists shouldn’t be vilified.
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The spirit of the age: Why the tech billionaires want to leave humanity behind
Jeff Bezos and his contemporaries are using their fortunes to achieve god-like ambitions for the future.
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Éric Zemmour: the “TV-friendly fascist” who thinks he can be France’s next president
To his followers, the Parisian provocateur is the saviour of the French far right. But he could be its…
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Jesse Armstrong on power, politics and the return of Succession
How the British writer created an era-defining American satire.
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Will Donald Trump be back?
Michael Wolff’s Landslide is an absorbing account of Trump’s downfall – and a portent of his return.
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The NS Poem: Against Resting in Peace
A poem by Gboyega Odubanjo.
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The battle for the soul of conservatism
Edmund Fawcett’s book traces the evolution of an often-contested ideology.
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Are we living in the age of unpeace?
A new book by Mark Leonard argues that globalisation and connectivity is causing conflict rather than preventing it.
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Reviewed in short: New books by Mary Hollingsworth, Jessica Nordell, Michaela Coel and Michael Bracewell
Conclave 1559 by Mary Hollingsworth, The End of Bias by Jessica Nordell, Misfits by Michaela Coel and Souvenir by…
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The future of lockdown
From the Black Death to space travel, how quarantine pitches individual freedom against collective safety.
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The terrible beauty of boxing
We have known about the consequences of professional boxing for at least a hundred years. Few are spared.
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David Lowery’s The Green Knight feels like a waking dream
This modern retelling makes the Middle English poem both intelligible and peculiar.
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The BBC’s Blair and Brown: The New Labour Revolution is both compelling and chastening
These films handle New Labour’s early dynamism with dexterity.
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BBC Radio 4’s A Home of Our Own explores Britain’s housing crisis
Across ten episodes, Lynsey Hanley speaks to people who are shut out of the housing market. The picture is…
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Those who came before us knew how plants could reveal a more vibrant reality
The hallucinogenic Datura are a natural means to wisdom. Why must we ban plants like them?
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This England: Upping sticks
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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One dodgy kebab and I miss out on a memorable restaurant experience
A friend who earns an obscene amount of money was due to take me out. Instead, I writhe around…
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My solo hotel weekend serves up both emotional trials and small consolations
After a difficult night, I attend a pottery class and for two glorious hours my mind is full only…
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Yotam Ottolenghi Q&A: “I can tell you everything you need to know about vegetable preparation”
The chef on Stevie Wonder, why we shouldn’t ruminate, and returning to the era of the hunter-gatherers.
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