The Left Power List

The new left power brokers

Our guide to the 50 most influential people in progressive politics features leading Labour names, radical leftists and less…

Letter of the week: The case against Starmer

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Will Jeremy Corbyn agree to step aside in Islington North?

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Can Linda Yaccarino save Twitter?

However competent the new CEO is, the biggest obstacle in her efforts to turn Twitter around will be Elon…

Brain surgery in a warzone

For Ukrainians, victory is inevitable – but in the country’s hospitals, it is clear that winning the war will…

Simon McDonald: “It’s the end of the game for Britain”

The former head of the Foreign Office on the UK’s decline, why we should not “make an enemy” of…

As Conservative MPs descend into civil war, even Nigel Farage says Brexit has failed

Tory infighting over immigration and other issues is a proxy debate about the true meaning of leaving the EU.

Britain’s Brexit divisions are re-emerging

This time, inflation is the battleground.

Zelensky is fighting two wars – against Russia and to win over the West

Ukraine’s coming counter-offensive is the best chance to prove to its supporters it can still win.

There is no such thing as the self

Our personalities are more like episodes than sagas.

Europe’s false dawn

After the revolutions of 1848, liberals helped create a conservative international order that has shaped the world since.

Why read life-writing?

Joanna Biggs’ A Life of One’s Own looks to the letters and journals of literary women for guidance. Can…

The memeification of George Orwell

The writer has become a national treasure, moral arbiter and begetter of biographies: do we need a new one?

How Big Tech made us screen addicts

Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired argues that smart devices are engineered to keep our children hooked. Can we hold the industry…

From Katja Hoyer to Charles Foster: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring Why is this Lying Bastard Lying to Me? by Rob Burley and The Happy Couple by Naoise…

Visions of St Francis

For nearly eight centuries, artists have been among the saint’s most avid followers, as a major new exhibition at…

Beau Is Afraid is a cartoonishly Freudian horror

Ari Aster’s black comedy about malign maternal influence is full of cod-psychology that makes Psycho look like a Mother’s…

Steeltown Murders left me bored and furious

There are countless other series just like this true crime drama. Is it any wonder I found it so…

Do we need another political podcast?

The Power Test, co-hosted by Ayesha Hazarika and Sam Freedman, will delight Westminster obsessives.

Being in pain is bad enough, but being a woman in pain is even worse

Endometriosis, appendicitis, fractured vertebrae, and now my mother’s knee injury: why aren’t women taken seriously when they say they…

Thanks to a shoulder in agony I meet Dr H—, possessed of a lively mind and deep humanity

I tend to get on with the medical profession, but her demeanour suggested an even broader hinterland than usual.

This England: Uninvited gusts

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

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Kae Tempest’s Q&A: “I can go from ‘Stayin’ Alive’ to Mozart in an afternoon”

The poet on the works of Leslie Feinberg, being photographed by Wolfgang Tillmans, and James Joyce.