Leader: Britain faces two lost decades
Boris Johnson’s government should have taxed the UK’s vast housing wealth to pay for social care, rather than squeezing…
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Boris Johnson’s government should have taxed the UK’s vast housing wealth to pay for social care, rather than squeezing…
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The delayed backlash over the misconduct in No 10 shows that scandals often erupt not when people uncover the…
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We are led to believe the Prime Minister is about to drop the habits of a lifetime, but the…
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Katrín Jakobsdóttir on the rebirth of the Nordic left.
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If the Chancellor becomes Tory leader he will inherit a world of trouble, and then run a very different…
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Germany clearly wants the EU to have a workable relationship with Putin, and the bloc cannot provide security for…
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I waste my time watching shows that aren’t good enough to recommend to anyone, but aren’t bad enough for…
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If England’s Ashes defeat tells us anything, it’s that the whole system needs reform.
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The more Vladimir Putin tries to bring post-Soviet states closer to Moscow, the more he repels them. Is the…
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Though the Conservatives still lionise Margaret Thatcher, they are raising taxes to the highest level since the early 1950s…
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As rates of diagnosis rise, a fierce debate rages in psychiatry. Are we experiencing a parallel pandemic, or having…
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Eugenicist thinking was rejected after the Holocaust, but in the era of Big Tech, the idea that humans can be…
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Playing with Fire by Wilson, Trust No One by Grothaus, Gangsters of Capitalism by Katz and Toxic Positivity by…
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Pure Colour, Heti’s risk-taking, reality-bending new novel about a father and daughter, is a thing of frustration and wonder.
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Vegans makes meat-eaters aware of their hypocrisy, argues Ed Winters in This is Vegan Propaganda – and people hate them…
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The “energy and savagery” of Isou’s Lettrist revolution lived on in May 68 and punk.
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How the Austrian artist’s conception of the ideal existence was muddied by Nazism.
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Unfairly treated by history, the Doors frontman turned youth rebellion into an art form – and did away with…
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This is a cool, controlled film of three parts, each taking the form of a triangle.
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Ben Whishaw is miscast in this adaptation of Adam Kay’s bestselling medical memoir, and there is something badly amiss…
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“A Couple Walks Into a House” tells the story of how a real estate viewing revealed the twisted private…
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By expanding our diet, we can protect species and landscapes from the relentless march of monoculture.
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The commitment to getting it right verges on cruelty, insisting on take after take – and all of these…
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“Any problems in the bedroom?” she asked. At this point, I had to fight really hard to suppress my…
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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 sustainability expert on the suffragettes, leaving the corporate world behind, and her hero Dolly Parton.
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