The Right Power List

The crisis of conservatism

Our guide to the 50 most influential people in conservative politics features free-marketeers alongside post-liberal thinkers.

Letter of the week: The allure of Olympian thinking

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Ministers are on resignation watch as Rishi goes rogue

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

The meanwhile space deception

Temporary neighbourhood gimmicks are turning your next home into a Potemkin village.

My own special relationship with North America

Also this week: Meeting progressive peers in Montreal, and bridging divides in football and politics.

Mary Beard: “Learning to think should be destabilising”

The historian on eviscerating Boris Johnson, making students cry, and why classics is “not just for posh people”.  

Desperation is turning the centre right against green politics

As populist parties’ influence grows, the consensus around Europe’s climate change agenda is crumbling.

Requiem for a world war

Jeremy Eichler’s Time’s Echo shows how four great 20th-century composers captured the horrors of conflict.

Who owns your face?

How the shadowy start-up Clearview sold the power of facial recognition to corporations and states across the globe.

How England lost the Hundred Years War

The final part of Jonathan Sumption’s epic history reveals the complacency that led to the end of English power…

Bronze Age Pervert will not save the American right

The author of Bronze Age Mindset has galvanised US conservatives – but his adolescent philosophy will soon be forgotten.

From Duncan Hamilton to Lydia Kiesling: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring The Story of Scandinavia by Stein Ringen and Big Meg by Tim and Emma Flannery.

Ken Loach’s turn to sentimentality

In the 87-year-old director’s new film The Old Oak, wishful liberal thinking comes at the cost of plausibility.

ITV’s The Long Shadow trivialises the crimes of Peter Sutcliffe

For all its professed sensitivity, this drama turns the most terrible crimes committed against women into mere entertainment. I’m…

Marina Abramović’s catalogue of self-harm

The stock-in-trade of the 76-year-old’s long career is endurance mixed with pain: something she demands of her audience, too.

I found a fox inside my home – I’m hoping it’s good luck

Standing between the sofa and the bookcase he looked completely wrong and out of place. He knew it too.

Ancient wisdom helps me survive a storm, but does little for my laptop

My computer is my window on the world. I go to ridiculous lengths to protect it.

This England: Lost in the post box

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

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Nadiya Hussain’s Q&A: “Some of my happiest moments happened during lockdown”

The chef and television presenter on Alicia Keys, the joy of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!…