Leader: No deal is the worst of all outcomes
It was once Leavers, not Remainers, who insisted that a no-deal Brexit was unthinkable. David Davis, the former Brexit…
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In this week’s magazine
The new civil war
Letter of the Week: Europe’s not so tolerant
I consider myself an ardent Remainer but I must take issue with Martin Fletcher’s description of the EU as…
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Defeated in the Commons, Boris Johnson has split his party and revived Jeremy Corbyn
Conservative MPs can’t decide whether Boris Johnson, who suffered a humiliating defeat in the Commons on 3 September, is…
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First Thoughts: The great university con (redux), alternative facts, and the beauty of a Suffolk church
On its “get ready for Brexit” website, the government advises that, if we leave the EU without a deal,…
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Kathleen Jamie’s Surfacing: documenting the beauty of our endangered earth
Structurally, tonally, even visually – with text punctuated by grainy black-and-white photographs – Kathleen Jamie’s new essay collection Surfacing…
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How the Nineties dream turned sour
It was a time when we chose life. When football was coming home. When a new day was dawning,…
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The myth of the strong leader
In April 2016, after Boris Johnson referred to Barack Obama as a “part-Kenyan president” with an “ancestral dislike of…
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Deborah Eisenberg’s Your Duck is My Duck: incendiary, essential short stories
The effect of reading a short story by the American author Deborah Eisenberg is such that soon after finishing…
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It Chapter Two: shrill, overlong and largely without merit
Nearly 90 years ago in Fritz Lang’s M, a single balloon snagged in the telephone wires high above Berlin was…
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Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of Harvey Weinstein – a powerful, revealing documentary
Close to the beginning of Ursula Macfarlane’s powerful film about the rise and fall of Harvey Weinstein (2 September,…
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The Political Butterfly Effect: fun, forensic hypothesising
Did a mass brawl cause Brexit? Or one incident on a boat tip climate change on to its current trajectory?…
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Don’t be afraid of the odd brown leaf or wonky vegetable – appearances can be deceptive, and in gardening they usually are
I certainly know the tone of horticultural anxiety when I hear it. One of my oldest friends – one…
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Like the seafarers of Santa Cruz, I’m gauging the swell of the tide with the swing of my testicles
It’s half past three in the afternoon as I write these words. That means, with only brief intervals, I’ve…
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I thought I was prepared for the youngest leaving home. I stand there, stirring a huge pot of pasta
The youngest gets his A-level results, and they’re fine, and he’ll be going where he wants to go, and…
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Jeffrey Archer Q&A: “I still run now, very slowly“
Jeffrey Archer was born in London in 1940. Known for his political career, he was deputy chairman of the…
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