Worse could follow Putin
The focus for policymakers must be the prospect that Putin will be replaced by someone even more hostile to…
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The war comes to Russia
Letter of the week: I am Waterstones Dad
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Who are the 31 male MPs on Westminster’s list of shame?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Is Robert Kennedy Jr a genuine threat to Joe Biden?
Support for JFK’s nephew as a presidential candidate reveals the demand among Democrats for an alternative.
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Why adults should put their phones away
Also this week: nourishing our children and the social media con.
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How to live forever
Oliver Zolman, doctor to millionaires, on the science of longevity.
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Labour promises a green energy revolution – but does it know how to make it happen?
We need to hear the party’s plan for a step-by-step withdrawal from oil and gas, and we need to…
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It is naive to think that Vladimir Putin’s fall is imminent
Failed coups often have few major consequences, and the Wagner Group’s mutiny may not alter the Ukraine war’s outcome.
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Fifty days on an NHS ward
Over months of treatment, I have seen the best and the worst of healthcare in Britain.
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Mutiny of the mercenaries
Prigozhin’s putsch has cast doubt on the future of Russia’s war.
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The paralysis of power
Is this the beginning of the end of the Putin system – or will the autocrat endure?
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The fake tsar
The truth is out there: there is no Russian state.
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“I’m feeling gently told off”: Wes Streeting and Dr Phil Whitaker in conversation
As the NHS faces its worst crisis, the shadow health secretary joined the GP for a day at his…
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The NHS: a history of political interference
The health service was opposed by doctors from the start, and has suffered decades of ministerial harm. Can Labour…
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Trapped in the generation gap
Jean Twenge’s new study suggests that the young are the losers in a society transformed by technology.
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From Elizabeth Winkler to Claire Kilroy: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Cinderella Boys by Leo McKinstry and In Light-Years There’s No Hurry by Marjolijn van Heemstra.
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Britain’s race delusion
Tomiwa Owolade argues that American culture wars obscure black British identity – but are racial borders less fixed than…
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Susan Sontag’s women problem
In the feminist thinker’s essays of the 1970s, members of her sex are portrayed as political pawns rather than…
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The restless storyteller
How Ian McEwan became the dominant novelist of his generation.
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Why Question Time has had its time
The conditions that made the political panel show a good idea in 1979 no longer exist.
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The problem with Glastonbury
With soaring ticket prices and uninspired headliners, the festival struggled to live up to its reputation.
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Dear England and the English Question
In his new play about Gareth Southgate, James Graham uses football to explore a contested national identity.
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: a feeble last crack of the whip
The Harrison Ford franchise that began with spectacle and wit has ended with a dull, predictable, CGI-laden dud.
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The abuse of the Bay City Rollers
Even if I hadn’t read the tabloid stories about the band’s struggles, they’d be top of my list in…
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A history of the world in circles
Radio 4’s In the Loop explores the secrets of things that are round – from particle accelerators to the…
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Jeremy Clarke was a supreme chronicler of the hand-to-mouth life
I lament the loss of my fellow down-at-heel columnist. We aren’t the kind that hang around for long.
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This England: The mane attraction
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Emily St John Mandel’s Q&A: “I’m the person you want next to you in an emergency”
The Station Eleven author on Volodymyr Zelensky, mask-wearing and how to stay calm.
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