The AI wars

The age of cheap money is over

As interest rates surge, Britain needs a new economic model not based on a toxic housing market.

Letter of the week: House rules

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At a patronage rate of a peer per fortnight, Liz Truss’s honours list will out-crony Johnson’s

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Austerity on trial

At the Covid-19 inquiry, David Cameron and George Osborne were unrepentant over their spending cuts.

The remarkable range of Glenda Jackson

Also this week: admiring the Elgin Marbles, and enduring the rigmarole of chemotherapy.

Lutfur Rahman: “I’m just a humble local politician”

Is the Tower Hamlets mayor a ruthless egotist or a victim of anti-Muslim bigotry?

Culture is everything – and if Labour is to win us over, it needs to rediscover its own

To have a chance of long-term success in office, Keir Starmer needs affection and support.

Why is the far right surging in Germany?

Economic and social marginalisation is pushing voters towards the AfD.

The race to buy the Telegraph group shows that newspapers are far from done

For the past couple of years the publication has been widely assumed to be in play, following the death…

The long-term impact of school closures on children is lockdown’s unspoken horror

Teachers reported children starting school while still in nappies and lacking basic language skills.

What Cormac McCarthy knew

The American novelist understood the bleak truth that the world defies human understanding or control.

The high plain style of Cormac McCarthy

The late American novelist wrote with a strange and streamlined grandeur, and sounded like nobody else.

From Brandon Taylor to Stuart Maconie: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring Blue Machine by Helen Czerski and Is This OK? by Harriet Gibsone.

There will be blood

Motherhood is the most profound metamorphosis most women will go through. Why is this process so overlooked?

Pathologies of a president

A new book revisits Freud’s analysis of Woodrow Wilson to ask: how much do leaders’ psychologies shape our politics?

The family doctor knows best

A sweeping history of the NHS and one GP’s inside account of a long career on the front line.

The enduring cult of The Wicker Man

The 1970s film was deemed naff on its release 50 years ago. But thanks to VHS culture, it became…

In Asteroid City, Wes Anderson is beyond parody

As a trend for homages to his work explodes, the director doubles down on his mannerisms in his most…

Bridget Christie’s The Change and the rise of menopause media

I’d take Christie’s dark humour over Davina McCall’s washboard stomach any day. But let’s stop pretending the topic is…

In the house of Harry Styles

The pop star’s fans have their tricks and traditions to make a stadium gig feel as intimate as possible.

The black dessert-maker who helped bring ice cream to the masses

More than 170 years after his death, Augustus Jackson is remembered as an American confectionery pioneer.

In my renter’s mind, a broken boiler valve means I might have to rethink my entire life

I collect, compulsively, stories from friends of rents being raised in response to maintenance requests.

Penury is the mother of invention, so I now put dirt-cheap red plonk in the fridge

I am having to get by on £4.30 a day. This is, to put it mildly, sub-optimal.

This England: The great escape

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

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Wendy Mitchell’s Q&A: “It wasn’t until I had dementia that books became a joy”

The campaigner on living with her diagnosis, Barack Obama and her love of Gogglebox.