Leader: The choice facing Germany
A two-party coalition of the Social Democrats and the Greens would be the best outcome for Germany at a…
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The Fateful Chancellor
Letter of the week: paying for power
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
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Sajid Javid holds Boris Johnson’s fate, and the torch of Thatcherism, in his hands
The Health Secretary will have to suppress his free marketeer instincts to deliver on the Prime Minister’s NHS promises.
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The Britain of Emma Raducanu shows why nationalists are losing the argument
The public want to bang the door shut on a decade of division sewn by austerity, referendums and culture…
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The big problem with the SNP’s plan to measure Scotland’s success by “wellbeing”
Measuring a country’s GDP doesn’t give the whole story, but whichever metric you use, the SNP’s record falls short.
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The gloom of leading Brexiteers signals a dark outlook for “independent” Britain
As supermarket shelves lie bare, even prominent Leave voters are beginning to doubt the wisdom of being outside the…
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Why there is melancholy in Emma Raducanu’s New York fairy tale
The teenager who stunned the world will never play without expectation again.
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John Simpson’s Diary: crossing the Khyber Pass, why the Taliban is a problem for Imran Khan, and my biblical comeback
The Taliban’s leaders want to show the group has modernised – but it will be the same as it…
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Margrethe Vestager: “Europe was so far ahead of the curve on privacy”
The EU commissioner on her battle with Big Tech.
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The Fateful Chancellor: What the end of the Merkel era means for the world
Angela Merkel steered Europe through crisis after crisis, but leaves a mountain of unfinished business. How will she be…
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How I mastered the mental game of tennis
To my opponents, I looked like slow movement, straight sets, and an easy ride into the next round. But…
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Can Keir Starmer break Labour’s losing streak?
Labour’s leader on how to overcome defeat, division and Boris Johnson.
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The fidget business
Pop-its and other fidget toys are selling in their tens of millions. Why are they so popular, and what…
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Steven Pinker and the problem with rationality
The popular psychology professor makes the case for reason. But the lure of dogma is hard to resist.
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Josiah Wedgwood: The radical potter who shaped our politics
Wedgwood was a titan of British industry – but hypocrisies haunt his legacy.
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How to talk about trans rights
Two new books reveal the fault line running through the gender identity debate.
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Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies is an amorphous, disquieting novel
The one thing you can say for sure about Kitamura’s wonderfully sly new novel is that it offers a…
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Reviewed in short: New books by Steve Richards, Michael Pye, Justine Picardie and Sandro Veronesi
The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success and Failure From Butler to Corbyn by Steve Richards Why do some…
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The NS Poem: Hymn to the Subjunctive
A new poem by John Burnside.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: a mind on fire
A century after its publication, the philosopher’s Tractatus remains as radical as ever.
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Rose Plays Julie is The Parent Trap with teeth
Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor take a familiar long-lost-family story – and add a dark, vengeful twist.
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Jack Thorne’s Help is a harrowing look at the care homes crisis
The effect of the drama is hard to put into words. It is horrifying. It is shameful.
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To dissect a good joke, do you have to kill it?
Perhaps the most futile of all questions is why some things make us laugh, which doesn’t bode well for…
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How do you preserve the history of something that lives and dies each season?
After visiting Kew, Dixter and Charleston, great gardens that reflect the past, I was intrigued to stand in one…
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I had always resisted seeing patients “virtually” but the pandemic shows it works
Most initial assessments and follow-up consultations can safely be done by phone – as long as one remains vigilant.
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An almost sleepless night, until I have an anxiety dream about this magazine
Awake in the early hours I feel as though my brain has been replaced by wet soil. So I…
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I once found comfort in solitude. Will I ever enjoy my own company again?
I used to feel superior in my independence whenever I travelled or dined out alone, but that quiet confidence…
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This England: Hounds of love
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Gina Yashere Q&A: “This planet needs a good shakedown. Wipe it out, start again, Etch A Sketch-style”
The comedian discusses the work of Malcolm Gladwell and Nelson Mandela, and a missed career as an athlete.
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