The casual coup

I am filled with a menacing fear for the future

The Titanic on the horizon haunts my imagination

At SXSW London, politicians and Paddington’s dad take to the stage

The festival of AI optimism comes to London once again

Gisèle Pelicot’s battle isn’t over

Shame is changing sides, but it’s a work in progress

EU again?

Rejoiners trek to Brussels in search of redemption

Only a Burnham-Streeting alliance can save Labour

It’s not impossible

Letter of the week: A not-so-corny notion

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Peter Mandelson could not solve Labour’s woes

The former US ambassador was a morbid symptom of his party’s lack of direction

Trump is making America’s 250th birthday all about himself

The celebration has become a monument to monomania

This is a by-election driven by despair

Residents feel let down by politicians on the left and on the right

This is not what Henry Nowak’s family wanted

Political point scoring won’t bring back the murdered 18-year-old

Flesh, death and bohemia

Peter Hujar and Paul Thek were at the heart of New York’s 1960s art scene but preferred the fringes

The examined life of Brian Dillon

The cult writer’s new memoir describes a life lived in citation, in proximity to other minds

Land is Maggie O’Farrell’s best novel

O’Farrell’s story of an Irish mapmaker is epic and devastating

The quintessential Colonel Gaddafi

In a new biography, the “mad dog of the Middle East” doesn’t quite emerge from his cartoonish persona

Steven Spielberg goes home

The director has returned to his adolescent roots in science fiction

Do you hear the robots sing?

Good luck getting Big Tech to ask the hard questions about art

The British aristocracy has never been so wretched

Savage House is a perfect satire of upper-class social climbers, fraudsters and wannabes

How to trivialise Brexit

This new documentary about the referendum is a very British waste of time

The science of having a sister

Siblings Unpicked delves into one of our closest yet surprisingly understudied relationships

Deerstalking in Norfolk: requiescat in pace, Bambi

What does muntjac taste like?

Beer and sandwiches: At the Boot Inn in Tisbury

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If the government isn’t careful, GPs could go the way of dentists

Dental practitioners have always offered both NHS and private care to their patients

Will graduates ever be compensated for student debt?

A generation of young people were told university was the key to financial prosperity, but misled on what that…

I’m surrounded by coppers for the first time since my LSD arrest

Free bottles of water are political correctness gone mad

In 1966, I left Wembley convinced England would win again

Some people count their life in spoons; I count my life in World Cups

October 2000: What would George Orwell make of Tony Blair?