Why Russia holds the key to resolving the North Korea crisis
China is propping up North Korea’s economy, but it seems to get little influence in return.
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Trump goes nuclear
Val McDermid Q&A: “I have great respect for Nicola Sturgeon“
The crime writer on her heroes, joining a band and winning Mastermind.
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A swimming pool and a bleeding toe put my medical competency in doubt
Doctors are used to contending with Google. Sometimes the search engine wins.
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Peter Hitchens on Twitter seemed barely human – then he came round for tea
During his visit I realised I had an awkward duty facing me.
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Why serving wine at room temperature is a myth
There is no such thing as room temperature: there are simply different rooms.
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Utopian tale of Milton Keynes weaves together social history and memoir
Meanwhile Bake Off squares up to the BBC’s new Family Cooking Showdown.
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Songs of lust and melancholy on Rádio Amália
The Portuguese blues has soul but isn’t sad.
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Final Portrait sketches Alberto Giacometti in the winter of his life
Giacometti’s life is glimpsed in revealing shards.
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Ned Beauman’s Madness Is Better Than Defeat brings jungle fever to a story of cinema
The author’s lustrous and smart fourth novel never quite coalesces into purposeful significance.
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Kesha’s “Rainbow” insists that life’s traumas can’t kick the fun out of you
Perhaps the greatest surprise is how much like the old Kesha Rainbow sounds.
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Elmet leaves the metallic taste of blood in the mouth
Fiona Mozley’s debut novel digs deep into the psycho-geology of Yorkshire.
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Brexit… Leg-sit
A new poem by Jo-Ella Sarich.
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Scot of the South Seas: Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa
Story of author’s time with his family in the island nation details a political awakening.
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The Lure of Greatness: Anthony Barnett’s punk polemic grasps the magnitude of Brexit and Trump
Despite its idiosyncrasies we need more books like it.
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The Earth moved: how we discovered ripples in space time
A new book charts the decades-long search to measure gravitational waves.
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The End We Start From imagines London underwater
Megan Hunter’s fictional apocalypse is a tender one.
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David Olusoga’s look at a forgotten history shows there’s always been black in the Union Jack
Black and British: A Forgotten History addresses one of the greatest silences in British historiography.
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Peter Adey’s wonderfully digressive book explores the science and history of levitation
From flying carpets to rocket men, we have always dreamed of defying gravity
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The love affairs of Stan Laurel: “If I had to do it over again things would be different“
A romantic who craved stability, the English comedian Stan Laurel led a Hollywood love life as chaotic as his…
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If tattoos could talk: Glen Campbell’s life in music
The late singer made a trade of music, and made it look easy.
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“I teach dirty tricks”: the explosives expert who shows armies how to deal with terrorists
Sidney Alford used to blow things up in his garage. Now his expertise is helping save lives.
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The war on poaching
More than 1,100 rhinos were killed for their horns in Africa in 2016. Quasi-military conservation units are trying to…
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Meet Anne Marie Waters – the Ukip politician too extreme for Nigel Farage
In January 2016, Waters launched Pegida UK with former EDL frontman Steven Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson).
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The economic and moral case for global open borders
Few politicians are prepared to back a policy of free movement everywhere. Perhaps they should.
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The internet dictionary: what is a Milkshake Duck?
Milkshake ducking is now more common than ever.
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Charlottesville: a town haunted by the far right
Locals fear a bitter far right will return.
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Britain has built a national myth on winning the Second World War, but it’s distorting our politics
The impending humiliation of Brexit is going to have a lot more in common with Suez.
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Bertie Carvel’s Diary: What would the French think about infidelity in Doctor Foster?
The joy of debuting a new series, Rupert Murdoch’s squeamishness and a sting in the tail.
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Hopes of an anti-Brexit party are illusory, but Remainers have a new plan to stay in the EU
Stopping Brexit may prove an impossible task. Remainers are looking to the “Article 49 strategy”: reapplying for EU membership.
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What Charles Windsor’s garden reveals about the future of the British monarchy
As an open-minded republican, two things struck me.
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Leader: Trump’s dangerous nation
From North Korea to Virginia, the US increasingly resembles a rogue state.
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“It was the most traumatic chapter of my life”: ex-soldier James Wharton on his chemsex addiction
One of the British Army’s first openly gay soldiers reveals how he became trapped in a weekend world of drug and…
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