Britain’s gentle revolution
Labour has benefited from years of Tory misrule, but does it have the capacity to deliver national renewal?
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Labour has benefited from years of Tory misrule, but does it have the capacity to deliver national renewal?
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Your weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
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If Kyiv’s allies had identified Putin’s invasion as an act of colonisation, they might have won more support from…
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A northern takeover of Wembley, a D-Day tribute, and the greatest try ever.
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The presumptive front-runner for the next Conservative leadership contest has been unfairly vilified.
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Liberals and mainstream Conservatives loathe him. But he understands something important about the fractious mood in the country.
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Progressives must speak out against partiality in the legal process and the endless persecution of the former president.
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With Britain in ruins, change without disruption means no change at all.
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A deepening identity crisis has left the Tories unable to appeal to either centrists or populists.
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With citizenship training for MPs, the Commons would see a marked improvement, as would our response to crises.
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Our artistic consumption has become divorced from our political imagination.
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A Labour landslide could change the politics of a future Keir Starmer government.
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The 50 most influential people shaping Britain’s progressive politics.
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Rose Boyt’s memoir of her controlling father reveals a relationship defined by cruelty and shame.
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Family-owned firms now sit at the heart of America’s fraying democracy.
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Also featuring Going Home by Tom Lamont and The Roads to Rome by Catherine Fletcher.
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The late poet, novelist and New Statesman columnist was equally attuned to the natural world and what lies beyond…
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Forty years ago Bruce Springsteen’s bleak portrait of America’s discarded working class was miscast as a patriotic anthem.
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In The Dead Don’t Hurt, the actor struggles to update an archaic genre.
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The charmless TV adaptation of Candice Carty-Williams’s novel is full of cliché, cod psychology and faux empowerment.
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The London Coliseum’s stage version of the Studio Ghibli film is a feat of both engineering and aesthetics.
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Having reset my relationship with sugary food, I’m no longer led by my sweet tooth.
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How I conquered picturesque Polish volcanoes, e-bikes and endless vegetarian meals.
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An old album and a Pet Shop Boys gig remind me of music’s power to refresh memories and forge…
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This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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The American academic on finding fulfilment in Shakespeare, structuralism and dry-stone walls.
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