How to remake the Union
The path is open to Labour, the founding party of devolution, to offer a reconfigured United Kingdom.
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The Undoing of Nicola Sturgeon
Letter of the week: What conservatism knows
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Boris Johnson is plotting to oust Sunak, says George Osborne – and No 10 is worried
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Roald Dahl’s books are nasty by nature – editing a word or two won’t make them nice
Sanitising the writer’s legacy may help him remain profitable – but his books can’t be easily cleaned up.
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Ukraine Diary: A year on, Russia’s war has failed to break our spirit
We started the Kyiv Independent as the horror of war loomed – and now Biden and Zelensky walk through…
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Mariana Mazzucato: “Consultancies depend on weak governments”
The economist and author of The Big Con reflects on why capitalism is broken.
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Why the fall of Nicola Sturgeon offers little reason for unionist triumphalism
The enduring strength of the SNP is not just a morbid symptom of British decline: it is a rebuke…
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Italy is too large to save but cannot be left to fail. Eventually, something has to give
While Giorgia Meloni claims she wants her country to stay in the eurozone, its deep economic problems might pull…
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In the face of Russia’s aggression, global alliances have proven their indispensability
In 2019 Emmanuel Macron declared that Nato had suffered a “brain death”, but in Munich world leaders showed otherwise.
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Could I become Christian in a year?
Reading the Bible is tempting me towards belief.
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Why the battle for the Union is far from over
The Scottish independence movement has stalled – but the Union won’t be secure until Westminster remakes a decaying constitutional…
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The undoing of Nicola Sturgeon
The SNP reached its electoral zenith under the First Minister but she leaves office humbled by Westminster and alienated…
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John Sullivan: “Vladimir Putin does not want an off-ramp”
The former US ambassador to Moscow on dealing with the Russian president face to face, and what the Kremlin’s…
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Letter from Syria: “We called for urgent help. No one responded”
After more than a decade of devastation inflicted by civil war, Syrians face a new struggle for survival.
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Bernie Sanders: the president who never was
The politician’s new work is a limited and soporific harangue. How did he twice get close to becoming leader…
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Secrets of the womb
Leah Hazard’s new book shows how this complex, life-giving muscle has been maligned and misunderstood.
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From Em Strang to Kapka Kassabova: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Owlish by Dorothy Tse.
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On the “war kitsch” of All Quiet On The Western Front
Edward Berger’s film of the novel has been lauded across the world. But in Germany it has met with…
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A short history of bollocks
By swearing on BBC Breakfast, Ben Wallace revealed himself to be a true Brit.
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Sarah Lucas: “I didn’t want to spend my life angry”
The artist on feminism, the importance of humour, and being a Young British Artist at 60.
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At MoMa, I saw an artwork that moved me – made by a machine
Refik Anadol’s Unsupervised is a glorious introduction to art by artificial intelligence. Plus: the rise of cultural Russophobia.
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How Joyland was deemed an “un-Islamic” love story
Sadim Sadiq’s film about a married man and a trans woman was censored in Pakistan – but has won…
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Fleishman Is in Trouble is a slick but exhausting portrait of New York wealth
This series belongs to a new big-budget genre of TV that attempts to intellectually flatter viewers who can actually…
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Does The Witch Trials of JK Rowling say anything new?
A former member of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church community interviews the Harry Potter author about the perils of…
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Stuck at home ill, thank goodness I have football’s follies to keep me entertained
Singing to mock a record signing, a mighty Wolves victory, and sympathy for Antonio Conte over the pain of…
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I just might have been a top tennis player but my teenage body had other ideas
When after two years of lessons I still lost to my brother I gave up – not recognising the…
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Sleep has always proved elusive, but at least I have nothing to get up for
Some people use the time afforded by insomnia to worry about things, but I prefer a good book and…
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This England: The best a cat can get
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Sharon Olds’ Q&A: “I wished I could travel back to take Keats penicillin”
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet on the Obamas, Aretha Franklin and the death of the Amazon.
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