The Tory Crack-Up

The scourge of greedflation

A fifth of the UK is going hungry. Yet this is a crisis the political class seems unable to…

Letter of the week: Educating Bridget

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Suella Braverman is branded a “loose cannon” by unhappy ministers in the Home Office

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Ukraine reveals the rise of the non-aligned state

Zelensky left the G7 to a chorus of renewed Western support, but failed to convince the other leaders to…

A transcendent singalong with Bruce Springsteen in Rome

Also this week: great journalists remembered, and a duck called Puskás.

Ben Goldsmith: “We’re part of a bigger, far grander mystery beyond our perception”

The environmentalist and author on how the death of his teenage daughter inspired him to rewild his farm.

Keir Starmer knows his NHS plan will make life harder for a Labour government

The condition of the NHS is not like other political issues, so any politician who promises health reforms had…

Rebuilding industry is a mistake. The West should focus on economic alliances instead

Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is laudable, but decades of decline cannot be reversed in a single presidential term.

Guardiola’s idealism is evaporating amid Man City’s dogged pursuit of victory

The manager’s legacy in the world of football is unrivalled but, one by one, the aspects that made him…

Shakespeare’s race problem

The playwright reflected the prejudices of his age, but he also questioned and undermined them.

From Guy Gunaratne to the science of allergies: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring M John Harrison’s Wish I Was Here and Jonathan Miles on the French Riviera.

Britain’s care deficit

By relegating the elderly and sick to the margins of life, we ignore the fact that one day we…

An insider’s tale of Tory chaos

Whips, a parliamentary romp by the former No 10 adviser Cleo Watson, is fact barely disguised as fiction.

The patriotic preacher

Martin Luther King was no saint, but a deep faith in America drove his mission to redeem its soul.

Be more tree

We admire trees for their solitary strength, but it is their remarkable facility for collaboration and sharing that provides…

Mark Gatiss: Rishi Sunak “doesn’t give a toss” about the arts

The actor and writer on playing John Gielgud, the culture wars and a decade of Tory arts cuts.

Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener is inexcusably nasty – and yet I loved it

This story of an ex-white supremacist and a mixed-race woman tending to the grounds of a former plantation will…

Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland reveals the madness of sectarianism

James Bluemel’s documentary series may be the best television ever made about Northern Ireland’s Troubles.

What makes a witch?

A new BBC Sounds series explores the tangled roots and modern revival of witchcraft.

Ruth Wilson’s The Second Woman is a mesmerising feat of endurance

Over 24 hours, as Wilson played the same scene with 100 different actors, the repetition became addictive – and…

After two years of therapy I have decided that where I am is good enough

There have been few dramatic revelations; it has all been rather gentle.

It’s been a dramatic season, but its high point is still to come: Carlisle vs Stockport at Wembley

Man City’s Ederson kicks off the long-awaited, much coveted 27th annual The Fan Awards…

Some birthday… my shoulder is so bad I cannot pull a cork from a bottle

The pills might as well be Smarties, the gel salad cream. So booze it is.

This England: Threat of extinction

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

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Ricardo Nuila’s Q&A: “I need to be nicer to my family”

The doctor and author on falling in love, The Simpsons, and the caring side of Sasanian King of Kings.