Leader: The rout of the libertarians
Trussonomics has imploded and those who advocated it deserve to be haunted by this abject humiliation.
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Trussonomics has imploded and those who advocated it deserve to be haunted by this abject humiliation.
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BioNTech is attempting to deploy the vaccination technology it developed for Covid as a weapon against malignancy.
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An unexpected link to a schoolgirl killed in Afghanistan is a reminder that we are all citizens of the…
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The Indian novelist reflects on the impact of colonialism on the natural world, and looks to the young for…
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Unlike Liz Truss, the new Chancellor is a serious and measured politician.
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The UK should look to the Netherlands for inspiration: it is both richer and more equal.
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The Conservative government has long celebrated the UK’s exceptionalism, but this false belief has led the country to ruin
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If the Tories fail to learn the right lessons from the collapse of Trussonomics, they face electoral oblivion.
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The artist explains the thinking behind his original work, and how art can help in the fight against climate…
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The UK has a special responsibility to lead on the climate crisis. But it prefers to deny, delay and…
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The world’s leading voice for climate action and its most original singer-songwriter discuss greenwashing, fame, Cop27, music and the…
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The youth movement Fridays for Future has grown into an international force for change. Here, seven activists share their…
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Those facing flood and fire can’t afford to lose hope. Neither should we.
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The influential essayist and moss scientist on what nature can teach us about survival.
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Adam McKay, Mary Robinson, Vanessa Nakate and others share their solutions.
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Jair Bolsonaro’s rule has been disastrous for the Amazon. But the remote communities who live there are gaining ground.
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The Booker winner’s novels tend to imagine bleaker futures. Why not create something more optimistic?
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In The Passenger, his first novel for 16 years, the great American writer offers a study of living without…
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A new poem by Kathleen Ossip.
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Johan Eklöf’s The Darkness Manifesto shows how artificial light is harming the natural world – and what we can…
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Keith Fisher’s A Pipeline Runs Through It charts how oil revolutionised transport and war, and continues to shape today’s…
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In Nomad Century, Gaia Vince argues we must prepare now for environmental migration on an unprecedented scale.
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Also featuring No Choice: Becca Andrews on the right to abortion, and Servants of the Damned by David Enrich.
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From resentful crows to narwhal tusks, we understand only a fraction of the Earth’s beauty. And now we risk…
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Jonathan Freedland’s play considers the prejudicial myths fuelling anti-Semitism today, and how the Royal Court became complicit.
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The director reunites Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell in a timeless film full of heartbreaking sunsets and superb knitwear.
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Subtle and clever, Pete Jackson’s ambitious series centres on a teenager liberated from an enforced seclusion.
ByIn a tape-filled attic, Roger Bickerton finds 94 instalments of Desert Island Discs.
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At a gig in south London, the singer seemed trapped by nostalgia for his early career – and a…
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I’d never been to the Theatre Royal before, but its a delightful, old-school place.
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At 28 I am twirling around the room, wagging my finger as I wail along with princesses Elsa, Ariel…
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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 author and academic on Malcolm X, Swedish politics and being happiest in the womb.
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