The Fall

The Trumps wish the world a very demented Easter

At least Nixon could sober up. Trump is a lunatic every hour he is awake

Unlike France, Britain’s roads practically sparkle with litter

At least we don’t have a borderline sociopath in charge

The dying days of riot grrrl

Also this week: late nights with ER, and longing for the moral optimism of the 1990s

At the Cambridge and Oxford Boat Race, England’s blazered elite float off down the river

Even today, rowing is an afterthought

How the National Gallery changed my life

Also: a second referendum for Scotland, and Easter in Venice

Letter of the week: Shades of grey

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Labour is divided over the Green threat

After Gorton and Denton, Labour’s battle with the Greens could get nastier

Donald Trump is done with Nato

The alliance represents an international order that Trump wants to leave behind

The Iran energy fallout is here to stay

It will take years for global markets to recover from the crisis

Syria and Lebanon, forgotten victims of the Iran war

The conflict could not have come at a worse time for either nation

Britain can’t afford to be middle class any more

As the country braces for a price shock, what it means to be poor is changing

Gwendoline Riley is haunted by herself

The author’s new novel, Palm House, lacks her usual virtuosity

John Lanchester’s personal venom

John Lanchester’s new novel offers a darkly funny vision of bitter London professionals

Kathleen Stock, born-again conservative

The philosopher’s new book on assisted dying is part of a developing critique of moral libertarianism

The curse of individualism

Rowan Williams’s new book reimagines solidarity for our times

Jan Morris’s defiant life

The transgender travel writer was both temperamentally conservative and deeply unconventional

How to paint a new country

Konrad Mägi mined various early-20th-century styles to create a restless national vision for Estonia

Albert Camus, estranged

François Ozon subtly updates The Stranger and its author’s attitudes to French colonialism

Riz Ahmed’s comedy of anguish

Bait, the comedians new show about British Muslim life, is never quite sure what it wants to be

Johannes Radebe makes Kinky Boots dazzle

The larger-than-life Strictly Come Dancing star is captivating as he injects life into the new production of the show

Please, come in to my apartment. No, I don’t have any chairs

The London housing market forces the urgent question: what if you ate that ricotta on the floor

The doctors’ strike is about more than money

It is existential

Do you qualify as Down and Out?

It is nowhere near as easy as you might think

Beer and sandwiches: At Big John’s Biltong Bar in Deptford

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