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The new paranoid style

The Conservative Party has succumbed to ideology and has turned on the British institutions it once revered: the judiciary,…

Letter of the week: Independent perspective

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Angry Anderson now chairs the Tory party’s Unpopularity Committee

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Inside the Labour left’s split

The rise of a “New Left” grouping has exposed divisions within the Socialist Campaign Group.

A travelling tribute to James Baldwin

Also this week: Underdressed in snowy New York, the beauty of book covers, and delighting in London’s diversity.

Reem Alsalem on the biggest obstacles to ending violence against women

The UN’s special rapporteur on violence against women and girls discusses the rights of refugees, sex-based violence in Gaza,…

Elon Musk’s fight against workers’ rights

The billionaire is leading corporate America’s latest assault on working people.

Mark Drakeford doesn’t understand Wales

The First Minster’s socialism is numb to the realities of Welsh life – just look at farming.

Europe’s consensus on climate is crumbling

With farmers in revolt and the far right surging, is Ursula von der Leyen about to wreck her own…

What is Brick Lane without bagels?

What the fate of a beloved East End bagel shop tells us about our changing cities.

The myth of “the West”

Our simplistic attitude to Western civilisation overlooks the global trade and culture that created it.

Confessions of a City trader

Gary Stevenson’s rags-to-riches memoir exposes a system where the rich can’t lose and the economy is choked by inequality.

Journal of an American plague year

Eric Klinenberg’s study of New York’s struggle with Covid in 2020 reveals a society riven by racism and discontent.

From Marianna Spring to Jason Okundaye: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring a lost memoir by Harry Edward and The Painter’s Daughters by Emily Howes.

How to get kicked out of the band

An entertaining study of sacked musicians reveals the tensions that give pop its power.

Sibelius’s symphony without sequel

The composer lived for 33 years after his Symphony No 7 premiered a century ago. But he could never…

Dune Part 2 is pure spectacle

Denis Villeneuve has finally made Frank Herbert’s novel into a successful franchise, with no self-consciousness – or irony.

The Jury: Murder Trial and the misogyny of the British public

This disquieting Channel 4 series reveals the shocking way some men still talk about women.

The strange history of the pill

On the podcast Jam Tomorrow, the story of the contraceptive pill begins with American GIs stationed in England and…

Thomas Ostermeier’s An Enemy of the People: Ibsen for the Amazon age

The director’s world-famous adaptation, now premiering in English in the West End, is a scorching, punk-inflected take on the…

Welsh food is potted social history

Wales has its own proud and unique cuisine – and it’s not just for St David’s Day.

The wisest investment in your child is not giving them a smartphone

Preserving your child’s ability to focus confers a competitive advantage.

Hail to the Brighton bus driver: he could be me

The advert says: “All we ask from you is a driving licence and a smile.” Well, I have a…

Yoko Ono’s seriously playful art

Her Tate Modern retrospective delights me with its mixture of silliness and profundity.

Why would Jürgen Klopp leave Liverpool? Let me count the (made up) ways

His decision to leave was so sudden, something must have tipped him over the edge.

This England: Chewie couture

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

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Arik Kershenbaum Q&A: “I’m happiest in a hammock, being woken by gibbon song”

The zoologist on emigrating to the UK, what the Civil War cost America, and the serenity of a world…