Leader: A turning point in history
A Russian invasion of Ukraine would be the biggest crisis in Europe since the end of the Cold War.
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Letter of the week: The Brexit burden
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The Ukraine crisis shows “Global Britain” can’t afford to turn its back on Europe
We can’t stand up militarily to Putin’s Russia. But a London cleaned of dirty money and with a more…
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The Tory party will pay a heavy price for failing to remove Boris Johnson
Every week that goes by with the Prime Minister still in office further toxifies the party’s reputation and humiliates…
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In the face of Russian aggression, the West can and must rediscover its strength
If Western leaders cannot stand up to Putin, they should not be in the business of geopolitics at all.
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The Uyghurs’ plight shows the biggest threat to democracy is Western apathy
We know that populist dictators are emboldened by each other’s atrocities, so how many more disappearances will it take…
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Pam & Tommy is proof – if we needed it – that there’s too much sex on our screens
Far from defending privacy, the series is formed by and fuels a culture of exploitation. Where will the titillation…
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The Met is institutionally misogynistic. No “banter” or “bad apple” excuses can hide that
It is laughable to suggest the 19 officers who sent disturbingly sexist and racist messages are not reflective of…
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Diary: My time as the New Statesman’s political editor is over, and I’m shaking up a seven-year routine
Reflecting on my tenure, the greatest joy of working at the NS has been hearing from the kind, funny,…
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“Men are trapped in a gender prison”: Ivan Jablonka on the crisis of modern masculinity
Observing that many men are resistant to social change, the French historian wants to reimagine the cultures and norms…
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Kyiv resists doom-calls of the West with composure in crisis
Ukrainians have been told to wait, but the uncertainty makes normal life increasingly impossible.
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Letter from Kyiv: While Ukraine’s oligarchs flee, my friends and I have Sunday lunch
The Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov writes how life in his country feels – mostly – ordinary.
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Xinjiang: a region of suspicion and subjugation
The Chinese authorities have long treated the region – and its people – with suspicion. The abuses there can…
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Behind Xi Jinping’s Great Wall of Iron
How China’s Uyghur population became the target of a merciless campaign of collective punishment.
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Historic Uyghur culture is under existential threat
Shaped over centuries by pilgrimage, trade, art and war, a unique culture has been suppressed and exploited by Beijing.…
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Living in an immaterial world
The metaverse promises infinite new realms just as tangible as the one we will leave behind.
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How the Stasi poets tried to win the Cold War
Philip Oltermann’s The Stasi Poetry Circle reveals how the GDR taught its spies to use verse as an ideological…
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Monica Ali’s Love Marriage: sex, class, race and satire
The Brick Lane author’s first novel in a decade is overstuffed but delightfully so.
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Reviewed in short: New books by Sofi Thanhauser, Jessica Au, Jo Browning Wroe and Joseph Sassoon
Worn by Thanhauser, Cold Enough for Snow by Au, A Terrible Kindness by Wroe and The Global Merchants by…
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“My culture will survive”: the Uyghur poet Fatimah Abdulghafur Seyyah on her family’s devastating persecution
In a series of specially commissioned poems, the writer who left China in 2010 refuses to be “defined by…
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Joe Wright’s Cyrano is an extravagant, theatrical musical
The director has radically revised the physical challenges of his hero – and finds in Peter Dinklage the perfect…
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In Forbidden America, Louis Theroux eviscerates the far right
Theroux is braver than he used to be, flushing out his interviewees’ politics and reducing them to tantrums.
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The messy sex lives of monkeys
A delightful mix of science, history and feminism, BBC Radio 4’s Political Animals explores what animal sexuality reveals about…
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After a season of little contact, my garden and I are in conversation again
In those first hopeful and clear-skied days of February I felt a rush of affection for my scruffy little…
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At last I have discovered what many knew all along: the joys of football
After saying yes to a beginner’s game I was pleased to discover that, while bad, I was by no…
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This England: Be a good sport
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Maxim Q&A: “Prince once said to me: Own your own music”
The artist and Prodigy frontman on Nelson Mandela, Salvador Dali and why he’s happy right now.
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