The Housing Trap

Britain’s fiscal doom loop

Labour cannot fund the renewal of the public realm simply by relying on higher taxes on business and the…

Letter of the week: The politics of poverty

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Armour-clad Starmer is ready for battle

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Can John Healey really afford to go to war?

Keir Starmer wants to lead a security government but isn’t prepared to pay the cost.

Mike Berners-Lee: “Being a billionaire can make people go nuts”

The environmentalist on the politics of climate in an age of deceit.

I am once again woken up by the unpleasant buzzing of Russian drones

Also this week: Volodymyr Zelensky’s purchasing power and cross-pollination warfare.

Things will only get incrementally better for Keir Starmer

As the Prime Minister turns his focus back to Britain, he faces a restive Cabinet and an unresponsive economy.

The world is finally turning against the war on Gaza

It is still too little, but it is not too late.

Who will save local news?

The community papers that hold politicians to account are slowly dying.

Trump’s crypto empire is a brazen hustle

It won’t be the president emptying his bank account to buy meme coins.

Have we reached peak humanity?

Johan Norberg’s history of civilisation is an impressive conceptual achievement – but it has little to say about our…

The epic of James Joyce

How Richard Ellmann’s capacious 1959 biography shaped modern life writing.

The People’s Republic of iPhone

How Apple unwittingly assisted China’s global technological dominance.

The lost futures of Stereolab

In an age of genuine instability, do we still want to get our politics from pop music?

Cinema’s apex predator

The Australian survival thriller Dangerous Animals is a long-overdue corrective to the sharks-as-man-eater genre.

Mountainhead is a tech-bro horror show

Jesse Armstrong’s sharp, satirical film about four tech entrepreneurs imagines a plausible dystopian future.

How colour is created in the mind

The National Gallery’s multidisciplinary podcast Stories in Colour recounts world history through the story of pigment.

True “Yorkshire tea” is the ultimate in processed food

An exhibition in Ryedale shows just how much skill and graft goes into making a meal.

Labour promised to fix the NHS but seems set on breaking it even more

Wes Streeting appears to be the first Labour health secretary willing to countenance cutting back end-of-life care.

Brighton’s dog show is the highlight of my year

I was in a fever of anticipation for the sausage-catching round.

What cash effectively gives us is the freedom to lose money

UK savers may have missed out on as much as £541bn.

The Premier League season is over. Who’s up, who’s down and who had the best haircut?

High fives to Spurs, and boo to Fifa and Uefa.

This England: Great-great-glam-ma

This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…

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Mark Hoppus Q&A: “Enjoy every second and rage against the dying of the light”

The musician on London’s history, music before the internet, and European showers.