Death of a warlord
The US assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani has lit a tinderbox in the Middle East. Until wounded pride is…
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Trump vs Iran
Personal Story: Last of the hearts of steel
Forty years ago this week, my dad and grandpa went on the 1980 National Steel Strike, the first of the…
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How to sell good ideas
Malcolm Gladwell’s cool, playful intelligence has made him one of our leading public thinkers, and he has a host…
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Ten crucial questions about the world in 2020
The fundamentals that will decide global affairs in the year ahead.
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The radicalism of Randolph Bourne
Bourne’s affinity with outsiders drove his vision of making North America a united states of communities. A century on,…
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The square root of five women
A small patch of London encouraged high thoughts and hard work in the unconventional female writers who made it…
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How to fight fascism: the books exploring routes of resistance
Two new books explore the 20th-century individuals and collectives that opposed fascism.
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The books to read in 2020
From the planet’s last days to Thomas Cromwell’s: a 2020 reading list.
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Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House: untamed, original and brilliantly unclassifiable
This is a memoir of a tormented, abusive relationship she experienced with a woman, compelling as any thriller.
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Switched On Pop: a nerdy appreciation of pop music
A study of 21st-century pop music by Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding allows readers to ask more of pop…
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The bucolic pleasures of Worzel Gummidge
A new take on the sulking scarecrow is funny and contemporary.
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1917: the film of the year? Not by a long shot
Made to appear as though it was shot in just one take – the question is not how the…
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Watching ITV’s White House Farm, I felt uneasy
It’s hard to tear your eyes away from White House – but this doesn’t make it acceptable. Not to…
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It’s a boom time for rats, as those of us who live on boats already know
Along the mooring of boats where I live, the conversation these days is near-exclusively of rats.
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First Thoughts: Blame for the flames, a cabinet of drivel, and the altruism analgesic
We are as guilty as the Chinese over emissions.
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Visions of the technological future
The Astronomer Royal on why artificial intelligence and biotechnology lay the foundations for unimaginable advances in our societies.
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Commons Confidential: Bust-up in Camp Becky
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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From the Treasury to the high street: can Sharon White save John Lewis?
As an outsider, the former director-general for public spending may be better placed to make significant changes to the chain of department…
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An atrocity remembered
The afterlife of the Armenian genocide.
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Letter of the week: Positive power of populism
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
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Leader: The real special relationship
The Iranian crisis has revealed a quiet truth: the UK’s foreign policy remains more aligned with Europe than the US.
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Four live matches on TV – but none on Sky or BT, despite the channels costing me a fortune
They were on something called Amazon Prime Video. What the feck is that when it’s at home?
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Tim O’Brien Q&A: “My sons, Timmy and Tad, are better human beings than I“
The writer talks Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, George Orwell and Donald Trump.
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In my Queens apartment, the steam pipes hiss and you still put your trash down a chute
Ah, New York, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
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I spend most of the year making an effort to embrace the new. Then something odd happens
In December, I retreat back into the past.
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From Rainbow Carrots to Burpees Golden: the best vegetables to grow in 2020
As a new year begins, allow me to offer veteran gardeners (and former MPs at a loose end) a…
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Cricket contains multitudes, and they can all be found on a patch of dusty grass in a park in Mumbai
The Oval Maidan in the heart of south Mumbai, flanked by law courts and the university, hosts dozens of…
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For the working class, charisma, especially sexual charisma, can be a means of escape – or adventure
I was almost always sexualised, which was no hardship because I fancied everyone like mad.
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Germaine Greer’s Diary: The unlucky town of Eden, Australia’s fatuous blame game – and how to fight fire with fire
I knew there was no defence against the fires, only faint hope.
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Iran and Saudi Arabia are locked in a Cold War-style stand-off – but the situation is even more volatile
The Middle Eastern cold war is multidimensional, is more likely to escalate and is less predictable.
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His Labour leadership campaign is off to a slick start – but the real Keir Starmer remains elusive
Is he a lawyer who stood up for the powerless? Or is he the tough-as-nails director of public prosecutions…
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The killing of Qasem Soleimani shows America has not learned from the Iraq War
As conflict escalates in the Middle East, once more America lacks a strategy.
By For the working class, charisma, especially sexual charisma, can be a means of escape – or adventure
I was almost always sexualised, which was no hardship because I fancied everyone like mad.
By Germaine Greer’s Diary: The unlucky town of Eden, Australia’s fatuous blame game – and how to fight fire with fire
I knew there was no defence against the fires, only faint hope.
By From the Treasury to the high street: can Sharon White save John Lewis?
As an outsider, the former director-general for public spending may be better placed to make significant changes to the chain of department…
By Visions of the technological future
The Astronomer Royal on why artificial intelligence and biotechnology lay the foundations for unimaginable advances in our societies.
By First Thoughts: Blame for the flames, a cabinet of drivel, and the altruism analgesic
We are as guilty as the Chinese over emissions.
By Cricket contains multitudes, and they can all be found on a patch of dusty grass in a park in Mumbai
The Oval Maidan in the heart of south Mumbai, flanked by law courts and the university, hosts dozens of…
By Commons Confidential: Bust-up in Camp Becky
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
By An atrocity remembered
The afterlife of the Armenian genocide.
By The bucolic pleasures of Worzel Gummidge
A new take on the sulking scarecrow is funny and contemporary.
By Switched On Pop: a nerdy appreciation of pop music
A study of 21st-century pop music by Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding allows readers to ask more of pop…
By Letter of the week: Positive power of populism
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced…
By Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House: untamed, original and brilliantly unclassifiable
This is a memoir of a tormented, abusive relationship she experienced with a woman, compelling as any thriller.
By Iran and Saudi Arabia are locked in a Cold War-style stand-off – but the situation is even more volatile
The Middle Eastern cold war is multidimensional, is more likely to escalate and is less predictable.
By 1917: the film of the year? Not by a long shot
Made to appear as though it was shot in just one take – the question is not how the…
By It’s a boom time for rats, as those of us who live on boats already know
Along the mooring of boats where I live, the conversation these days is near-exclusively of rats.
By Watching ITV’s White House Farm, I felt uneasy
It’s hard to tear your eyes away from White House – but this doesn’t make it acceptable. Not to…
By His Labour leadership campaign is off to a slick start – but the real Keir Starmer remains elusive
Is he a lawyer who stood up for the powerless? Or is he the tough-as-nails director of public prosecutions…
By From Rainbow Carrots to Burpees Golden: the best vegetables to grow in 2020
As a new year begins, allow me to offer veteran gardeners (and former MPs at a loose end) a…
By Leader: The real special relationship
The Iranian crisis has revealed a quiet truth: the UK’s foreign policy remains more aligned with Europe than the US.
By In my Queens apartment, the steam pipes hiss and you still put your trash down a chute
Ah, New York, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
By I spend most of the year making an effort to embrace the new. Then something odd happens
In December, I retreat back into the past.
By Four live matches on TV – but none on Sky or BT, despite the channels costing me a fortune
They were on something called Amazon Prime Video. What the feck is that when it’s at home?
By Tim O’Brien Q&A: “My sons, Timmy and Tad, are better human beings than I“
The writer talks Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, George Orwell and Donald Trump.
By The killing of Qasem Soleimani shows America has not learned from the Iraq War
As conflict escalates in the Middle East, once more America lacks a strategy.
By