Leader: The long shadow of 9/11
After 20 years of failed interventionism and a humiliation in Afghanistan, Joe Biden’s US may have found a role…
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After 20 years of failed interventionism and a humiliation in Afghanistan, Joe Biden’s US may have found a role…
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A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
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Lithium batteries are fundamental to 21st-century industrial economies. The geopolitical effects are already being felt, and the West is…
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Ministers want to fix social care, but it comes with a sign reading: “Do not touch”.
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While Boris Johnson cannot deliver bad news, Keir Starmer struggles to rouse enthusiasm. Now, they each have a point…
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The new law provides a template for “pro-life” measures that will ruin and even end women’s lives.
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Nostalgic, luxurious and mind-bogglingly complicated, Abba’s new music maintains its legacy of stadium hooks and pop song intelligence.
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Russia is entering a dark new period in which it no longer pretends to be a democracy.
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The author and activist on culture wars, immigration and misogyny.
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Despite forecasts of decline following the Afghanistan withdrawal, the US military is planning another century of global domination.
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The Booker Prize-winning author on late fame, her mother’s death and the books she is yet to write.
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Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, the West is confused and in retreat
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Beautiful World, Where Are You despairs at the shallowness of fiction – and then embraces it.
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Bruno Maçães believes Covid has shattered the world order. But states are coping with the “end times” better than…
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The overwhelming evidence of global warming is the biggest problem that deniers face.
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Generations: Does When You’re Born Shape Who You Are? by Duffy, Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic…
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Boarding schools force boys to become cynical and detached. Then they grow up to run the country.
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The 18th-century artist revealed the possibilities of both watercolour and the British landscape.
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9/11: One Day in America forces the viewer to experience the attacks in painful detail.
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Ice-cold and uncompromising, this series is grim enough to go out after the 9pm watershed.
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The podcast deals in unscrupulous politicians, villains hiding in plain sight, and stories of exploitation so sensational you’ll struggle…
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It seems that once people had the choice to eat meat instead, they grabbed it with both hands.
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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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Halfway through my interview at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, I have an awful moment when I seem to…
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Most intriguing are the prisoner and prison officer. I am dying to hear what they are saying.
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Richard Osman was born in Essex in 1970 and is a host on quiz shows including Pointless, which he…
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