The Peace Delusion

Labour needs a hard reset

Until the government tells a consistent story about itself, it cannot expect voters to believe in it.

Letter of the week: Roundabout responsibilities

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Paralysis as usual in Starmer’s No 10

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

India must step back from the brink

International allies are pressuring both India and Pakistan to show restraint.

Reframing the private school debate

Also this week: AI and the value of creativity, and Prince Harry’s lessons on family feuds.

Ross Douthat: “In the intelligentsia, it’s Catholicism or nothing”

The veteran conservative writer on Christianity and Maga.

Cosplaying Reform will doom Labour

But the party has to fight Farage on his turf.

Trump is making America sad again

Trumpism thrives on the misery of its followers – and we are all unhappier for it.

Reform is the right-wing media’s monster

The Tory press made Farage. Now, like Frankenstein, it is bewildered and menaced by its own creation.

The assisted dying impact assessment resolves nothing

The government’s review promises to address concerns about the bill – but only raises new ones.

Farage rising

The leader of Reform UK is an extraordinarily protean politician and more pragmatic than is generally understood.

Curzio Malaparte, the Proust of violence

The Italian writer was drawn to fascism – but became an unsparing chronicler of the carnage of war.

The NS Poem: The Alternative

A new poem by Will Eaves.

Faith is a half-formed thing

A new generation is turning away from established churches in search of a different way to believe.

From Isabel Allende to Tim Wigmore: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring Cooking in the Wrong Century by Teresa Präauer and The Lost Orchid by Sarah Bilston.

Rafael Nadal: the king of Paris

No player has dominated one Grand Slam as Nadal did the red clay of Roland Garros.

The lost boys of North London

Leo Robson’s family saga, set during the 2012 Olympics, is both a comedy and a study of grief.

Edward St Aubyn’s comedy of horrors

The Patrick Melrose novels and his other works are clearly by the same writer – but produce wildly different…

The complicity of Leni Riefenstahl

The late film-maker insisted she was only an observer of the Nazi regime. A new documentary suggests otherwise.

ITV’s Malpractice is horrifying yet plausible

The second series of the medical Line of Duty asks: what’s the difference between being stretched and negligence?

Who was the real DH Lawrence?

A BBC series considers the novelist’s three great themes: sex, nature and class.

The devastation of spring moor fires

The head of the Colne Valley on the eastern flanks of the Pennines is visually dramatic – especially when…

That sound you’re hearing is public nuisance capitalism

Technology is giving us an ever greater capacity for antisocial behaviour.

I’m staying in suburban Shangri-La – but I yearn for the Hove-l

Even an enormous garden and a playful pussycat can’t stop me missing my home by the sea.

I’m doing what I should have done all along: recuperating

I am struck by how ill-designed bodies seem to be: miraculous in so many ways, but so beset with…

This England: One previous owner

This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…

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Martin Freeman Q&A: “My childhood hero was Jesus as portrayed by Robert Powell”

The actor on Stevie Wonder and wishing he had the talent to have been a musician.