The Great British Crisis

Big Tech is buttering you up

Called before MPs, tech execs display their constant vigilance against threats

Milan and the tragedy of decline

The final Milan derby in the storied San Siro is indicative of broader, destructive forces

Who’s really on show at Crufts, the owners or the dogs?

Around 18,600 dogs passed through the NEC last weekend

Journalism’s appetite for doom

Also: hunting for spies in north London, and our erosion of the Royal Navy

AI is the perfect blend of insight and bullshit

Also this week: rainy Irish summers and too much sport on TV

Letter of the week: The charm offensive

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Kharg Island, the key to Iran’s fate

If the war is about oil, why hasn’t the president targeted Iran’s most important facility?

The Strait of Hormuz: Iran’s oil weapon

The West is in a dependent relationship with Middle Eastern oil

Make porn expensive again

The social consequences of pornography are becoming too nasty to ignore

The rise of British Muslims

What do two politicians’ memoirs reveal about the changing fortunes of British Muslims in public life?

Asako Yuzuki’s acquired taste

Butter author Asako Yuzuki’s latest novel offers clues about what is behind the vogue for Japanese fiction

Alice Coltrane’s transcendent score

A biography of the spiritual jazz musician reveals the tension between her devotion to John and to a higher…

Melvyn Bragg’s class act

Was his success “social mobility”, or just good luck?

How academics ruined Shakespeare

It is time to retrieve the playwright we thought we knew – the man who asks universal questions –…

The NS Poem: A dream in two parts

A new poem by Janet Murray

Louis Theroux stares down the manosphere

Can Britain’s frowning documentarian defeat – or even comprehend – the new masculine underground?

The perils of adapting Kazuo Ishiguro

A new adaptation of the Nobel-winning writer’s first novel is too faithful to the book – and to its…

Broken Glass review: Jordan Fein’s slick directing saves Arthur Miller’s difficult play

A moving revival at the Young Vic emphasises the paralysing feeling of watching horror unfold abroad

ChatGPT – what should I drink with dinner?

AI doesn’t look set to replace the sommeliers anytime soon

Beware: Reform UK wants to join you in your bedroom

The right is coming for dating apps

Power comes and goes – I never seem to have it for long

What with my ex-MP and the internet, I feel connected again

Beer and sandwiches: At the Black Bull Inn in Sedbergh

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July 1974: Claire Tomalin on the publication of a newly discovered diary by the poet