The Reeves Doctrine

Labour and the return of the state

Is Labour’s ambition to transform Britain’s economic and social model or merely to manage it more competently than the…

Letter of the week: Intellectual stimulants

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Keir Starmer dodges the toff uniform of top hat and tails during his day out at the Epsom Derby

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

The prince who fell to Earth

During his day in court, Harry seemed to have a sparse understanding of how journalism works.

A trip to the GMB sofa and a lesson for lying politicians

Also this week: awkward encounters at my book launch and Prince Harry takes on the Mirror.

Marina Litvinenko: “I’m glad to talk about him – it feels like a duty”

The wife of Alexander Litvinenko on Putin, Peter Morgan’s Patriots and depictions of her husband’s assassination on stage and…

Labour will inherit the chaos of the Covid inquiry

Divisions are plaguing the whole country, and are rooted in personality and populism, not policy.

The Kakhovka dam attack is just the beginning

As Kyiv launches its counter-offensive, both sides are escalating.

Britain is not the sick man of Europe – that accolade goes to Germany

To survive in a modern, digital world, the German economy requires not a green transition but a full-scale revolution.

I refuse to feel shame after eating – but it saddens me that so many women still do

I thought moralised comments about eating were a thing of the past, but then I went on a girls’…

How to survive a nuclear holocaust

A luxury hotel protects the affluent in Sven Holm’s Termush, a rediscovered 1967 dystopia that sheds light on our…

The NS Poem: Rotterdam

A new poem by John Kinsella.

From Jacqueline Rose to Kira Yarmysh: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring Encounterism by Andy Field and Art Firsts by Nick Trend.

The new age of perfectionism

Is capitalism itself causing millennial burnout?

The Jewish vaccine pioneer forgotten by history

Simon Schama wants the post-pandemic world to learn from the case of Waldemar Haffkine: a tragic story of how…

Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour is a vast sci-fi spectacle designed for social media

This retrofuturist extravaganza, like all modern big gigs, is intended to look good on someone’s phone so they can…

The cult of David Keenan

How the Scottish author drew on music, drugs and violence to lead a new working-class avant-garde

Stephen William’s Chevalier is a wasted opportunity

This biopic of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier, the first black European composer, is less interested in the past than in…

Gods of Tennis took me back to when the players were rock stars

So much hair and testosterone, and yet, really, they were only little boys.

Elton John is saying goodbye, for one more time

He can no longer hit the high notes and stayed mostly seated at the piano but, even at the…

We have a new album out and are determined that ageing won’t stop us seizing the day

Forwards we go, ­embracing the new. Although, I’m a bit worried my doctor is soon going to tell ­me…

On a trip to Poland, I am reminded that my heyday has been and very much gone

A friendly man about a year older than me, turned and said: “You were an icon of the Nineties.”…

This England: Muscle man

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

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Frieda Hughes’s Q&A: “The Bible taught me everything”

The poet and painter on motorbikes, frog migration, and why all politicians are children.