Europe’s reckoning
The continent is not yet ready for this new era of Trumpian geopolitics.
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The Fall Out
Letter of the week: The human cost
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Is Keir Starmer in cahoots with Piers Morgan?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The precarity of the Gaza ceasefire deal
Even if the next phase of the agreement commences, Israel will face tough choices.
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Close encounters with Trump
Also this week: victory for Remainers, the staged assault on Zelensky, and 24 hours in Bahrain.
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Simon Hart: “It is nearly impossible for a prime minister to succeed”
The former chief whip on unruly MPs, cabinet reshuffles, and the unreasonable expectations placed on politicians.
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Europe alone cannot rescue President Zelensky
Keir Starmer is leading the continent in the right direction. But peace in Ukraine cannot be guaranteed without the…
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The right has a thriving new media ecosystem
And Kemi Badenoch is ready to use it.
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Why Donald Trump embraced Andrew Tate
The American right has more in common with the misogynistic influencer than it pretends.
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The politics beneath Zelensky’s suit
The row over the Ukrainian leader’s attire reveals a fault line between old- and new-world manners.
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Volodymyr Zelensky’s war of wills
For those fighting for their country’s survival, the president’s defiance is prized above his diplomacy.
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The fall of the mainstream media
How the press was demonised – and why it matters.
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Trump’s soft power grab
In an age of brutality, the vibe shift orchestrated by the Maga regime is the US president’s greatest victory…
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Dante’s divine autofiction
How the Italian poet’s search for self-knowledge changed the course of literature.
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The fight for wages for housework
In the Seventies, one feminist movement campaigned to make domestic labour both visible and recompensed.
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The two deaths of Brianna Ghey
In her powerful memoir Under A Pink Sky, Esther Ghey writes her daughter was being killed by social media…
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From Helen Rappaport to Simon Barnes: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King by Christopher de Bellaigue and Waste Wars by Alexander…
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Siena’s artistic revolution
In the 14th century, Duccio and others developed ways of painting that had never been seen before.
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In Mickey 17, Bong Joon-ho misses the moment
In this futuristic film starring Robert Pattinson, the director revisits his favourite themes. But a Donald Trump parody falls…
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Towards Zero: a hot mess of wonky accents and dubious furs
This vaguely dirty take on Agatha Christie isn’t shocking – at times, it’s laughable and a bit gross.
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Inside the criminal justice process
Joanna Hardy-Susskind’s BBC series You Do Not Have to Say Anything is a close-up examination of one of the…
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The irresistible lure of Seville’s orange season
These beautiful fruits have an intoxicating scent – and make excellent footballs.
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Thought experiment 8: The Experience Machine
In the 1970s Robert Nozick imagined immersive, tech-simulated pleasure as a negation of what it means to be human.
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My weak bladder gives me an insight into the White House
Perhaps I have more in common with Donald Trump and Elon Musk than I thought.
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Seeing endless faces in the city brings me comfort and relief
I think of how I grew up in a village where everyone knew me, and how I couldn’t wait…
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This England: Lost in translation
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Abdulrazak Gurnah Q&A: “What bugs me? The smug self-regard of the powerful”
The writer on Primo Levi and his grandchildren’s art.
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