Leader: Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and the crisis of conservatism
At the outset of the Conservative Party leadership contest, we launched a new series on “The closing of the…
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The state we’re in
First Thoughts: The real lesson of the Darroch memos, memories of the moon landings and Bonar Law
In presenting its exclusive on the leaked cables to Downing Street and the Foreign Office from Kim Darroch, the…
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The painful truth for Tories is the outstanding leadership candidate remains David Cameron
Shortly after David Cameron stepped down as prime minister, but while he was still the MP for Witney, he…
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For Germany to have allowed non-Nato member Ireland to set parameters on Brexit is a gamble
Geopolitical matters have long raised awkward questions for the European Union. Indeed, its existence is in part a geopolitical…
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When my Polish grandmother was exiled to Siberia in WW2, India gave her a home
Before she was exiled to Siberia, and before she caught malaria in a refugee camp in India, and before…
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The myth of mass togetherness
Unicorns romp through the Brexit debate. We have become accustomed to hearing their calling sounds on our current affairs…
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Betty Boothroyd: “Jeremy Corbyn won’t be prime minister, dear. He ain’t going to win”
In her ninetieth year, Betty Boothroyd is making a comeback. The first and as yet only woman to be…
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Making banking boring again: the decline of Deutsche Bank
There once was a time when Deutsche Bank’s central purpose was to expand its investment banking operations to compete…
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The joy of festival cricket, pastime of small towns
“There can be no summer in this land without cricket,” wrote Neville Cardus, the man who invented sports writing,…
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Commons confidential: Corbyn’s feuding comrades
Combatants in an increasingly hostile civil war within Jeremy Corbyn’s camp no longer conceal bitter enmities. One BBC hack…
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Griefcast is a surprisingly funny and frequently moving podcast
Cariad Lloyd was only 15 when her father died, and in her own words, they “didn’t have the greatest…
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Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee humanises a global crisis
The phrase “refugee crisis” evokes a standard set of images. Water-logged dinghies. Flimsy life-jackets. Queues of desperate people squinting…
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The people fighting to save our wildernesses from climate change
This year Guardian contributors such as myself were advised to alter the language we use to write about long-standing…
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The Landing
The nuns caught me, hasty one, pressing to arrive too soon. There was no time for the drive back…
By Griefcast is a surprisingly funny and frequently moving podcast
Cariad Lloyd was only 15 when her father died, and in her own words, they “didn’t have the greatest…
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Letter of the week: Story of a death mask
In her article on sudden death in young adults (Personal Story, 5 July), Sophie McBain briefly mentions Resusci Anne…
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Rioja is one of the most recognisable wine names – and one of the hardest wines to define
It’s an ill wind, they say, that blows nobody any good. This was cold comfort to mid-19th century European…
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It’s always a rite of passage when you first borrow money from your children
The trip to and from Manchester was a success, I suppose, in that we survived it, my eldest son…
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In New Orleans I, and everyone else, was invited to the funeral of one of its most famous sons
I once met an investment banker who, aged 14, had skipped school and flown to Brooklyn in the hope…
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Malcolm has waited five years for a new heart, kept alive only by a mechanical pump
I recently met Malcolm, a 53-year-old man from south Wales with severe heart failure. He needs a new heart.…
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Alexis Taylor Q&A: “What’s bugging me? People who ask why I don’t eat meat“
Alexis Taylor was born in London in 1980. At school in Putney he met Joe Goddard, with whom he…
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