Whoever succeeds Vince Cable as Lib Dem leader inherits a revived party – and no one expected that
When Tim Farron became leader of the Liberal Democrats in 2015, several of his close allies urged him to…
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The closing of the conservative mind
In supporting Boris Johnson, desperate MPs know they are backing an idle, lying charlatan
As the Conservative Party braced itself for confirmation of the ten candidates for its leadership last Monday, one of…
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How YouTube’s algorithms to keep us watching are helping to radicalise viewers
Every so often a quote will escape from Silicon Valley that, even by the standards of Silicon Valley hubris,…
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Cocaine, car chases and Camorra: how Maradona’s chaotic time at Napoli destroyed him
Fashioned from 500 hours of the subject’s own private footage, Diego Maradona is a new documentary by the director…
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Leader: The closing of the conservative mind
The Conservative Party is politically and intellectually exhausted. It has not won a stable parliamentary majority since 1987 and…
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I’d like to propose a radical alternative to punish misogynistic men – a marriage strike
Last month, the Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano announced that she’d had enough. “Our reproductive rights are being erased,” she…
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Editor’s Note: The triumph of the know-nothing Right
In 1975 Paul Johnson published a provocative New Statesman piece in which he lamented the “disintegration of Labour’s intellectual…
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Denmark has shown how to renew European social democracy
Following her success in the Danish elections, Mette Frederiksen is set to return the Social Democrats to power. This…
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Commons Confidential: Stone-cold Sadiq becomes red-hot ticket
Brextremist supporters of Boris Johnson are understandably nervous that the narcissist backed remaining in the single market and a…
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“The climate change emergency is so great we need to act together”
Ed Davey is running for the Liberal Democrat leadership and it’s all the fault of an advert in the…
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Philip Hammond is wrong, we can find the money needed to save our planet
Philip Hammond recently sent a letter to the soon-to-be-ex-prime minister claiming that tackling climate change simply isn’t affordable. The…
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Lord Sumption’s Reith Lectures had me struggling to stay awake
Midway through the 2019 Reith Lectures. Must stay focused. This year’s speaker is the former Supreme Court justice, QC…
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Sometimes Always Never: the Bill Nighy Scrabble drama suffers from too much quirkiness
Movies inspired by board games have a chequered history. Clue, based on Cluedo, came with lashings of high camp…
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Deadwood: The Movie concludes the bloodiest, sweariest, most swaggering Western there ever was
The words spoken near the opening of Deadwood: The Movie must – after more than a dozen years since…
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In its portrayal of men and women, Killing Eve echoes life – with added weapons
I’m not sure anyone watches Killing Eve (8 June, 9.15pm) for its cartoony plot, enjoyable as it undoubtedly is.…
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Matthew Stadlen’s Notebook: back on the festival circuit
The goldfinches haven’t returned to our wisteria this year, but down the road my mother’s birdfeeders have been busy…
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Moby Q&A: “My earliest memory is crying into a kazoo“
Richard Melville Hall was born in New York City in 1965 and raised in San Francisco. He began performing…
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Weight loss had left Leanne uncomfortable in her own skin – there was too much of it
By mid-morning, a succession of complex patients meant I was running half an hour late. But when I came…
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You’ll remember my problem with the electrics the last time I stayed in Brighton
BIP. When I first stayed in this place, about a year and a half ago, it had only recently…
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Like the university, a meal in Cambridge is never egalitarian: but one wine list comes close
I went to an excellent university, but the wine I consumed there was rarely of comparable quality. Cambridge’s venerable…
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