Forget the Tory psychodrama, the real crisis is the threat of a No Deal Brexit
Theresa May’s deal cannot pass parliament, and no Conservative leader can secure a better one.
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The real Brexit crisis
Michael Heseltine’s Diary: Remembering Roger Bannister, Brexit boredom and the trouble with early snowdrops
Roger was one of only 19 men to break the four-minute mile and a legend for sportsmen everywhere.
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Britain must ditch post-imperial fantasies for a shot of sober realism – just as it did in 1975
God forbid that a leading Brexiteer should have to own the mess he has helped create.
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A country in a critical condition
The Brexit negotiations were a battle over how much control Britain would have to cede to the EU and…
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How Brexit exposes the decline of BBC Question Time
In this febrile atmosphere, the longer-form current affairs programmes have come into their own.
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Why Gordon Taylor, football’s fattest cat, is under scrutiny
Taylor is now into his 37th year as chief executive of the Professional Footballers’ Association and his salary has risen to…
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The return of the repressed: the bitter legacy of the Algerian War
France remains traumatised by the war in Algeria, which lives on in the festering resentments of the banlieues and…
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The online right wants politics out of comics, but they have always been bastions of liberal thinking
Even as a child, I got the message that you shouldn’t stigmatise anyone for being different, even if that…
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“How come you talk like a white girl?”: Michelle Obama’s deeply moving memoir Becoming
In her autobiography, Michelle Obama shows she is adept at weaving together the personal and political.
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How Winston Churchill used his storytelling skills to shape his country’s history
Fake news, disinformation, propaganda – call it what you will – the dissemination of untruths and half-truths is part of…
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Guy’s and St Thomas’
A new poem by Kayo Chingonyi.
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The strange beauty of gulls
We vilify gulls for their proximity to human waste – but for self-declared “larophiles”, gulls are the ne plus ultra…
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The hawking of Stephen: is Brief Answers to the Big Questions more spin than science?
A little more time spent on the editing, and a little less spent in marketing meetings, would have created…
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Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver: an exploration of the rift between baby boomers and millennials
Kingsolver manages to make her characters simultaneously believable individuals, and embodiments of a generation.
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The frailty, vanity and duality of Saul Bellow
Sex, strife and a move to the right: how the American novelist faced up to his personal life in…
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How classical architecture became a weapon for the far right
By adopting a visual language of white marble statues, groups such as Identity Evropa have embarked on a culture…
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Crumbling Britain: How a UN lawyer exposed the true cost of austerity
Philip Alston found elements of the new Universal Credit welfare system “problematic”, “harsh” and “unnecessary”.
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Three Identical Strangers: a true story of triplets separated at birth
Plus: Rachels Weisz and McAdams star in Disobedience.
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The Interrogation of Tony Martin becomes electrifying in its final, strange moments
Plus: HBO’s adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend.
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The second season of BBC Three’s Clique is risky TV
But the first series of Clique managed to pull off its mix of social commentary.
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The National Theatre’s Hadestown is a rare, assured play
Hadestown turns the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice into a folk-opera with New Orleans jazz influences.
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Letter of the week: Undemocratic Labour
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
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Don’t accept the commonplace: there’s a whole world of vibrant colour beyond the classic red berry
The almost universality of red berries makes those plants with berries of other colours especially valuable and appealing.
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Returning to your old house is an act of unspeakable sadness. The instinct is to avert one’s eyes
The life has gone from it. I imagine this must be what looking at the corpse of a lover…
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I want to go back to university. I mean, pack my bags and go and live on campus with the other kids
Oh, the things I’d do differently.
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First Thoughts: Climate hypocrisy, temperate tea drinking and the long, slow decline of local newspapers
In every country, public commitment to keeping the climate stable is skin-deep.
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Britain’s loneliness epidemic: “This was the best day out in ages,” said Mary, after a trip to the doctor
Nearly half of over-65s consider the television their main form of company.
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Watching Harry Kane score, I asked myself: what makes a footballer truly exciting?
Bobby Charlton, one of our greatest ever players, was too cool, too serious, too emotionless to create excitement.
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Ayobami Adebayo Q&A: “In 3018, I would love to be a therapist for robots“
The novelist talks family, time travel, and the late Dora Akunyili.
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Yanis Varoufakis: “The EU declared war and Theresa May played along”
The former Greek finance minister on how a bad Brexit deal became inevitable and his plan to transform Europe.
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