Leader: What comes after Conservatism
The fantasy of a libertarian Brexit is over; delusions of tax cuts must now give way to a programme…
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The Meaning of Rishi Sunak
Letter of the week: Money, money, money
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No justice for civil servants in Rishi Sunak’s reshuffle
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Lula’s victory in Brazil shows how authoritarianism can be defeated
Jair Bolsonaro’s election loss demonstrates what a united opposition can achieve.
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A night in a Kyiv bunker, palliative care in a war zone, and another chance for Jeremy Hunt
I recently visited Ukraine to help train doctors, and witnessed first-hand Putin’s brazen desire to rain terror on civilians.
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Richard Reeves: “We have to rescript masculinity”
The author and former adviser to Nick Clegg reflects on the crisis facing boys and men today.
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In the age of anger, who will offer a vision of the good life?
Labour must remember that there is no progressive politics without optimism.
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A farewell to Ian Jack – a peerless reporter of British life
With his mastery of technical detail and direct style, many journalists rated Jack the greatest of his generation.
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Rishi Sunak’s “grown-up” austerity is a gift to the wealthy
The Prime Minister is serving the corporate and financial zombies kept alive for so long by low interest rates.
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What Xi Jinping’s rhetoric reveals about China’s global aims
Beijing’s call for “fighters” in leadership roles signals a battle with the West for dominance in tech.
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The sovereign individual in Downing Street
In 1997 a business book predicted tech disruption, the alt-right and the rise of the super-rich. Now, in Rishi…
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The uncertain future of the Tory party
If Rishi Sunak loses the next general election, who will inherit the battered kingdom of British conservatism?
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The great attention deficit: what’s fuelling the rise in adult ADHD?
No longer confined to “problem children”, ADHD diagnoses are booming – yet it’s a condition that remains widely misunderstood.
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No, you don’t have ADHD
The condition I struggle with has become a badge of victimhood.
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Decoding Adam Smith
A new history of The Wealth of Nations shows how the Scottish thinker’s legacy became an economic battleground.
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Fantastic beasts and how to save them
Katherine Rundell’s new book is a treasury of extraordinary animals endangered by human negligence and greed.
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Surrender: praying in the church of Bono
In his account of being “saved” by love and religion, the U2 frontman’s sincerity overpowers the scorn of his…
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The dark side of DNA editing
Genetic engineering can lead to great medical advances but, as Matthew Cobb’s new book shows, it also brings alarming…
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Jonathan Coe’s Bournville: Britannia chained
The novelist’s piercing satire charts 75 years of British history, ending with a righteously angry attack on the inhumanity…
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From Malorie Blackman to Barbara Kingsolver: recent titles reviewed in short
Also featuring Julia Voss’s biography of Hilma af Klint and Living Together by Mim Skinner.
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BeReal and the authenticity trap
A new social media app claims to reflect the reality of its users – but is it ever possible…
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Hercules Segers: the visionary printmaker who inspired Rembrandt
The 17th-century Dutch artist saw etching as a way to conjure strange imaginary realms.
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Living: Kazuo Ishiguro’s ode to Akira Kurosawa
The novelist’s moving new film draws on a Japanese master for its portrait of terminal Englishness.
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The White Lotus and the horror of the super-rich
The second season of Mike White’s luxury-hotel comedy-drama is an exquisite examination of the miseries of the wealthy.
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How near-death experiences change people
In a powerful new podcast, From the Other Side, John Burnside recounts his own brush with death and hears…
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House plants can be addictive. I should know: I own 51
Ferns spill over my bathroom counter; ivies and pothos trail from windowsills – it seems I have become a…
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Thanks to a kind reader, I won’t need to sit through the winter in an electric onesie
A mystery package arrives. Days of speculation ensue.
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This England: Swan Song
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Leah Thomas’s Q&A: “My earliest memory involved a priest, a rabbi and a firefighter”
The environmentalist discusses the poetry collection Black Nature, the Real Housewives franchise and Cori Bush.
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