A faintly surreal docu-drama: The American Clock at the Old Vic
Plus: Berberian Sound Studio at the Donmar.
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The last days of Islamic State
That shrinking feeling: therapy on the radio
From The Archers to The Angry Therapist podcast.
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Ukip wife swap: Channel 4’s surreal show Sleeping with the Far Right
Plus: BBC One’s The Missing spin-off Baptiste.
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Capernaum follows the forgotten street kids and scapegraces of Beirut
The film uses an inexperienced cast to depict life on the margins.
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The anti-hygge art of Harald Sohlberg
The painter’s Norwegian landscapes throb with an indefinable intensity.
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My lifelong love of Steve Reich
Jonathan Coe on a love affair with minimalism.
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If you don’t already know Phoebe Bridgers’s music, get to know it
Bridgers finds herself at the centre of a #MeToo moment in music. Now is the time to celebrate this…
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Macron should be punished”: meet Édouard Louis, France’s new literary star
At 26, Édouard Louis is a literary sensation for his bruisingly honest accounts of poverty and violence. He’s also…
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Marlon James’s Black Leopard Red Wolf: a work of literary magic
To call this novel original doesn’t do justice to such a phantasmagoric work of art.
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The beauty and savagery of Ernst Jünger’s wartime diaries
The publication of these extraordinary, sometimes hallucinatory diaries reveals one of the great witnesses to 20th-century Europe’s catastrophe.
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When the human tide ebbs
Global population boom may now be turning to population bust. The consequences, for better or worse, will shape our…
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Surgical stitch-up: meet the placebo surgeon
Could the placebo effect work in surgery? When a doctor wanted to investigate – by opening patients up but…
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Will the Independent Group succeed?
If the Brexit crisis triggers an early election, it could wipe out the new group before it can establish…
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When jihadis come home
Begum is just one of hundreds of foreigners from 40 different countries being detained by the Syrian Democratic Forces.…
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I’ve always been drawn to the notion of failure – it’s what glues us together, after all
Talking about the lows, and the fails, and how they are inevitable, and survivable, can be such a relief.
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Solo dining is on the rise. And it’s easy to see why
Order what the hell you want, relish your own company, and enjoy a dessert with just the one spoon.
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Patrice Lawrence Q&A:“I get to write a black girl into Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers“
The novelist talks Angela Rayner, the bus routes of London, and Artemisia Gentileschi.
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Three months of freezing Scottish winter without a stove – so why are there flies in my bath?
How have they survived record-breaking low temperatures?
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With only general diversity training, UK medical students are underexposed to trans issues
Several Royal Colleges and the General Medical Council have produced guidelines for health care workers, which stress the importance of…
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Why Steve Coogan can’t kill off Alan Partridge
The character has elevated banality to an art form.
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The surprise cult of Modern Monetary Theory
By suggesting that there are no inherent limits to state spending, the imperfect concept has attracted a growing following.
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Commons Confidential: Jeremy Corbyn’s missed meeting
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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How the Spanish left is caught in no-man’s land
Prime minister Pedro Sánchez has appeared an unhinged radical to the right but a disappointment to his left-wing supporters.
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Chris Leslie interview: Labour have “massively underestimated” a new centrist party
The Independent Group MP argues that the project isn’t doomed to electoral failure.
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The story of Eugenia Cooney, the emaciated YouTuber the internet thought was dead
For as long as Cooney has been popular online, fans have speculated that she suffers from an eating disorder.
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Why a total “thrashing” on the football pitch isn’t a defeat but a work of cruelty
The proper record for getting thrashed in an official match is held by Bon Accord of Scotland, who were…
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Why the BBC cutting news at a time of extraordinary politics is yet another act of British barminess
The decision causing the deepest resentment in the newsroom is the cut to the running time of the BBC News…
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First Thoughts: Why Tories rarely split, how the pro-Brexit papers lost faith – and the age limit on stupidity
Throughout Margaret Thatcher’s 15-year leadership, the Conservatives lost only one MP, to the SDP.
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Tom Bower’s Diary: My Marxist past, abuse from Tariq Ali, a warning for Meghan and the demise of Today
Back when I was known as “Tommy the Red”, I could not have imagined I would ever write a book…
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Leader: Britain’s political order crumbles
In the era of Brexit and Corbynism, Labour and the Conservatives can no longer contain their disparate factions.
By Macron should be punished”: meet Édouard Louis, France’s new literary star
At 26, Édouard Louis is a literary sensation for his bruisingly honest accounts of poverty and violence. He’s also…
By Surgical stitch-up: meet the placebo surgeon
Could the placebo effect work in surgery? When a doctor wanted to investigate – by opening patients up but…
By Will the Independent Group succeed?
If the Brexit crisis triggers an early election, it could wipe out the new group before it can establish…
By I’ve always been drawn to the notion of failure – it’s what glues us together, after all
Talking about the lows, and the fails, and how they are inevitable, and survivable, can be such a relief.
By Why Steve Coogan can’t kill off Alan Partridge
The character has elevated banality to an art form.
By The surprise cult of Modern Monetary Theory
By suggesting that there are no inherent limits to state spending, the imperfect concept has attracted a growing following.
By How the Spanish left is caught in no-man’s land
Prime minister Pedro Sánchez has appeared an unhinged radical to the right but a disappointment to his left-wing supporters.
By Why the BBC cutting news at a time of extraordinary politics is yet another act of British barminess
The decision causing the deepest resentment in the newsroom is the cut to the running time of the BBC News…
By Commons Confidential: Jeremy Corbyn’s missed meeting
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
By Tom Bower’s Diary: My Marxist past, abuse from Tariq Ali, a warning for Meghan and the demise of Today
Back when I was known as “Tommy the Red”, I could not have imagined I would ever write a book…
By First Thoughts: Why Tories rarely split, how the pro-Brexit papers lost faith – and the age limit on stupidity
Throughout Margaret Thatcher’s 15-year leadership, the Conservatives lost only one MP, to the SDP.
By When jihadis come home
Begum is just one of hundreds of foreigners from 40 different countries being detained by the Syrian Democratic Forces.…
By Surgical stitch-up: meet the placebo surgeon
Could the placebo effect work in surgery? When a doctor wanted to investigate – by opening patients up but…
By The story of Eugenia Cooney, the emaciated YouTuber the internet thought was dead
For as long as Cooney has been popular online, fans have speculated that she suffers from an eating disorder.
By Why a total “thrashing” on the football pitch isn’t a defeat but a work of cruelty
The proper record for getting thrashed in an official match is held by Bon Accord of Scotland, who were…
By The beauty and savagery of Ernst Jünger’s wartime diaries
The publication of these extraordinary, sometimes hallucinatory diaries reveals one of the great witnesses to 20th-century Europe’s catastrophe.
By When the human tide ebbs
Global population boom may now be turning to population bust. The consequences, for better or worse, will shape our…
By Chris Leslie interview: Labour have “massively underestimated” a new centrist party
The Independent Group MP argues that the project isn’t doomed to electoral failure.
By When the human tide ebbs
Global population boom may now be turning to population bust. The consequences, for better or worse, will shape our…
By Will the Independent Group succeed?
If the Brexit crisis triggers an early election, it could wipe out the new group before it can establish…
By Marlon James’s Black Leopard Red Wolf: a work of literary magic
To call this novel original doesn’t do justice to such a phantasmagoric work of art.
By If you don’t already know Phoebe Bridgers’s music, get to know it
Bridgers finds herself at the centre of a #MeToo moment in music. Now is the time to celebrate this…
By Leader: Britain’s political order crumbles
In the era of Brexit and Corbynism, Labour and the Conservatives can no longer contain their disparate factions.
By A faintly surreal docu-drama: The American Clock at the Old Vic
Plus: Berberian Sound Studio at the Donmar.
By My lifelong love of Steve Reich
Jonathan Coe on a love affair with minimalism.
By The anti-hygge art of Harald Sohlberg
The painter’s Norwegian landscapes throb with an indefinable intensity.
By Capernaum follows the forgotten street kids and scapegraces of Beirut
The film uses an inexperienced cast to depict life on the margins.
By That shrinking feeling: therapy on the radio
From The Archers to The Angry Therapist podcast.
By Ukip wife swap: Channel 4’s surreal show Sleeping with the Far Right
Plus: BBC One’s The Missing spin-off Baptiste.
By Solo dining is on the rise. And it’s easy to see why
Order what the hell you want, relish your own company, and enjoy a dessert with just the one spoon.
By Three months of freezing Scottish winter without a stove – so why are there flies in my bath?
How have they survived record-breaking low temperatures?
By With only general diversity training, UK medical students are underexposed to trans issues
Several Royal Colleges and the General Medical Council have produced guidelines for health care workers, which stress the importance of…
By Patrice Lawrence Q&A:“I get to write a black girl into Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers“
The novelist talks Angela Rayner, the bus routes of London, and Artemisia Gentileschi.
By