Leader: The great moving right show
Rather than advancing a new vision for the country, the Tory candidates are taking refuge in outdated orthodoxies.
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The Selfish Giant
Letter of the week: The bloated Lords
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Nadhim Zahawi quietly omits his links to Jeffrey Archer
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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It’s absurd to say the Conservative Party isn’t ready for a non-white leader
The suggestion that ethnic minority Tories have betrayed their identity is its own form of racism.
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Sasha Swire’s Diary: The Conservative leadership race is a dog show – but much more savage than Crufts
The candidates have all begun to fire off accusations at one another: “Socialist!” “Tax dodger!” “Spad shagger!”
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How psychedelics change lives
The writer Michael Pollan on becoming a psychonaut in his fifties – and why tripping is political.
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In 2019 Boris Johnson had everything he wanted. But the gods were waiting for him
The Prime Minister has left Britain unserious, divided and in need of complete transformation.
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Germany’s impending energy crisis is no reason for it to abandon Ukraine
It is both wrong and dangerous to write off the German economic model
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The assassination of Abe Shinzo
Japan’s former prime minister will be remembered as its most consequential modern leader.
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The Tories’ new nightmare
Conservative leadership hopefuls scramble to out-pledge each other. But awaiting the winner is a divided party and deepening economic…
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The final act in the Gove-Johnson psychodrama
The pair’s unlikely political alliance began at Oxford, was cemented by Brexit and ended with one last strike of…
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How Boris Johnson sullied the establishment that made him
From Eton to Westminster, the disgraced Prime Minister has hurried the decline of the institutions he represented.
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The hollowness of Boris Johnson
The Prime Minister’s gift for shape-shifting powered his ascent – but in his downfall the emptiness of his politics…
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The death of “Boris” the clown
All of a sudden nothing worked. The audience began to jeer. Yes, for the first time in his career,…
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The art of drawing Boris Johnson for the New Statesman
Having illustrated 22 Johnson covers for the NS, I have studied him closely; his hair is the sole element…
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The Great War’s miracle worker
How one surgeon’s pioneering treatment healed soldiers with the most disfiguring injuries of the First World War.
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The book Pete Doherty didn’t write
This “memoir” is essentially a transcript of hours of rambling interviews. Even the Libertines frontman himself thinks it’s “completely…
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Bringing the dead back to life
The world of South Africa’s /Xam Bushmen blended vision and reality, human and animal – until it was brutally…
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Processing Wirecard’s €2bn scandal
Dan McCrum’s Money Men tells the story of audacious financial fraud hiding in plain sight.
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Reviewed in short: New books from Christina Lamb, Sinclair McKay, Roger Mosey and Sheena Patel
The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless by Lamb, Berlin by McKay, 20 Things That Would Make the News…
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Anna Boberg’s timeless Arctic landscapes
For 30 years the Swedish painter returned to the isolated Lofoten Islands, and braved “such hardships as men endure”.
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Netflix’s The Gray Man is a dire example of movie-making by algorithm
The service’s most expensive film yet is blatantly tailored to suit streaming viewers’ boredom, impatience and desire for familiar…
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The last of the folk-hero hijackers
A crime mystery that fascinated 1970s America gets a new set of wings in the Netflix series DB Cooper:…
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Rory Stewart’s lessons in arguing well
In a three-part radio series, the former Conservative minister aims to bring reason and rhetorical flair back to public…
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In northern Italy, the sound of the swirling river suffuses even my hotel room
The strangely musical waterway tells a story of South Tyrol’s troubled history.
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This will be the tenth time I have moved in my adult life
It seems I can’t keep pace with “the market” and so I must up sticks and go.
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A tense time – take an M&S bedsheet from its package and there’s no going back
With new fitted bed linen I can now writhe about in full confidence that my bottom sheet is not…
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This England: Bin the wars
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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John McEnroe: “You don’t win every time, no matter how good you are”
The former professional tennis player on his sporting heroes, his friend Taylor Hawkins and being painted by Andy Warhol.
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