The Mandelson affair

Sajid Javid rehearses his greatest hits

Someone asked what decision he regretted. He struggled to answer. Perhaps I can help

What the Epstein files reveal about Britain’s power structures

They are inherently radicalising

Facebook druids herald the spring

They blow incense into my face, hissing the word “commitment”

Peter Mandelson’s hypnotic presence is gone from politics for good

Also: Keir Starmer’s “Zugzwang” moment, and why books are back

Defrosting among the terminators of Kyiv

Ukraine may be cold but the mob hotel I’m staying in is not

Letter of the week: A certain idea of Britain

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The Ice backlash won’t stop Maga

Trump’s partial de-escalation over the operation in Minneapolis was little more than a tactical retreat

Peter Mandelson is gone, and so is New Labour

Blairism is destined for the “sealed tomb” in which it once buried the hard left

The Epstein files expose the rot of Mandelson’s Britain

New Labour’s dead-end of pragmatism over everything else – including morality

How has Donald Trump escaped the Epstein files?

When I met Jeffrey Epstein in 2010, I could see his stink had spread across Manhattan high society

Pornhub’s harm will never be undone

Access to videos of violent, degrading, absurd sex hasn’t been good for girls or boys

Was this French cowboy the first fascist?

The eccentric life of Marquis de Morès, anti-Semitic rabble-rouser

Rupert Murdoch’s family blood sport

A new exposé reveals how he governed his family, his business and the world, unable to tell them apart

How Wuthering Heights seduced its readers

Nothing beats the thrills and seductions of Emily Brontë’s novel

A farewell to autofiction

Rob Doyle uses a proliferation of alter egos to lampoon the autofiction genre

The decline and fall of the samurai

There was more to the warriors than a readiness to die for honour

The female painters who redefined the British landscape

Alongside Turner and Constable, female artists contributed to this very British genre

The Beauty: if good looks could kill

The premise of Ryan Murphy’s programme could only have occurred to someone who’s spent a lot of time staring…

In Our Time is more cautious without Melvyn Bragg

Misha Glenny keeps himself out of the action

Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water is startlingly good

Stewart’s first directed feature film weaves a compelling narrative out of fragments of a woman’s past

America comes for our lunch

Corporate London eats like the American midwest

Beer and Sandwiches: At the Square and Compass in Dorset

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A missing delivery presents me with a terrible moral quandary

Tracking down the lost package I feel like a spymaster

The UK relies on foreign medics, but we must take care of home-grown talent

Most overseas recruits come from less developed nations that can ill afford the brain drain

July 1954: The case for defying American pressure on Sino-British trade