Leader: A state of emergency
If Liz Truss enters No 10 next week, she is expected to bring the Brexit ultras with her and…
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Liz Truss is ready for Prime Minister’s Questions – as long as they’re from Vogue
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Magdalena Andersson and Sanna Marin’s fight against far-right misogyny
The ease with which sexist attacks have undermined Sanna Marin and Magdalena Andersson should concern us all.
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Joanna Hardy-Susskind’s Diary: Wigs on the picket line and my fight to fix the justice system
Dealing with Dominic Raab is like trying to reason with an ex who’s packed his bags, downloaded Tinder and…
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Richard Powers: “Climate change is a psychological problem”
The author of The Overstory and Bewilderment explains why our best hope is to reconnect with nature.
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Why this crisis could be the international left’s big moment
As the West faces economic calamity, progressive politics has a chance to bridge its divisions and broaden its support.
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Joe Biden’s “money illusion” – and how it could beat back Trumpism
With his own party divided, the US president’s big spending packages are a way to reconcile political opposites.
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Critics accuse the BBC of bias, but its reporters never bow to political pressure
My time at the broadcaster has been marked by successive governments trying to make the BBC their messenger. It…
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Arsenal took a gamble on Mikel Arteta – and now it’s paying off
Three years ago Mikel Arteta inherited a demotivated squad – but he has since reignited the team’s passion for…
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A Liz Truss government means the return of the radical right
As a brutal winter beckons, the Conservative leadership front-runner and her band of free-market ideologues threaten to drag Britain…
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Why Liz Truss will fail
The office of prime minister has become impossible.
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Are the US and China destined for war over Taiwan?
When the powers faced off in the 1990s, American military might forced Beijing to back down. Now they are…
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Ian McEwan and the mess of living
His new novel Lessons is alert to human texture and complexity – and it’s his best in 20 years.
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Blue Labour: A rallying cry for a return to inclusive politics
Maurice Glasman’s book is an urgent reminder that statecraft is not about immediate victories but securing well-being for all.
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The Last Colony exposes a deep injustice at the heart of the British state
Fifty years ago the UK forcibly removed the inhabitants of the Chagos Islands. Will they ever be allowed to…
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Reviewed in short: New books from Steve Brusatte, Selby Wynn Schwartz, Katy Hessel and Seán Hewitt
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Brusatte, After Sappho by Schwartz, The Story of Art Without Men…
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Burning the bastards out
The destruction of country houses in the Irish revolution can be seen as the last stage of a long…
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Eric Ravilious’s visions of war and peace in England
The artist, who died 80 years ago, aged 39, found a bucolic beauty even in military action.
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The Forgiven is a tough and unrelenting film noir
Starring Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain, this film has been both critically admired and rounded on as a repellent…
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Have we reached peak TV crime drama?
The identikit approach to making television is beginning to be embarrassing. Exhibit A: ITV’s new series The Suspect.
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Meghan Markle’s Archetypes podcast is toe-curlingly cringey – but insightful, too
The jaunty pep-talk style may irritate Brits, but it will surely appeal to the duchess’s liberal American fans.
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Notes on the Proms
At my 350th Prom, there are queues no longer, and the BBC coverage has changed. But familiar pieces still…
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In east London I find a freshly baked croissant worth rising early for
At 4:30am I cycle to the social enterprise Dusty Knuckle and find the sweet, buttery scent of warm patisserie…
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When my son was born I realised I’d been treating my dog like a big, hairy child
The babying of dogs by broody owners is usually subconscious – except when a pet is put in a…
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I am moping, having learned again that the heart does what it bloody well wants
I knew she was clever and funny but I wasn’t prepared for, well, the whole package.
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This England: Pie in the sky
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Kathy Reichs Q&A: “I worry every time my grandkids go out”
The crime writer on Jane Goodall, Roe vs Wade and forensic anthropology.
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