Trump’s global terror

Rachel Reeves is pretending everything is absolutely fine

This Spring Statement didn’t take account of an inconvenient event: the outbreak of war

Starmer is no Churchill, but Trump is no FDR

Britain is caught in the storm of the special relationship

How we celebrated Khamenei’s death

My friends had imagined the moment for years

In search of Welsh nationalism

Nobody else can sing like this

Regime change is bloody and hideous

To the Russian ambassador’s residence in Kensington Park Gardens to talk to Andrei Kelin about the war in Ukraine…

Letter of the week: Phillipson’s final hurdle

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Who is Keir Starmer without Morgan McSweeney?

On Iran and on Europe, he is beginning to show us

What the war in Iran means for China and Russia

China’s leadership will not welcome the prospect of a global oil shock

America and Israel might be about to break up

Donald Trump has unleashed forces he’s no longer interested in controlling

Politicians are fighting for a working class that no longer exists

Hannah Spencer’s election has sparked a new fury of class-spotting

Political Islam won’t die with the ayatollah

Those willing Iran’s collapse miss the contemporary genius of its founding ideology

Michael Pollan’s hunt for consciousness

We have it. Plants have it. Machines may soon have it. Why do they all need one?

Gisèle Pelicot is not your hero

In her new memoir, Pelicot rejects the pedestal she has been put on

The breaking of nation-states

Utopian visions of an internationalist future ring hollow in dystopian times

Time-travelling angels in the Blitz

Francis Spufford’s new novel Nonesuch combines WW2 and wizards

It’s hard being Tracey Emin

A major retrospective at the Tate Modern shows how the artist became the queen of the confessional – but…

The very British brutality of Kind Hearts and Coronets

The 1949 inspiration for How to Make a Killing remains a tantalising fantasy of class war

Sound of Falling is an intricate ghost story about trauma across time

In this extraordinary film, four girls confront death through the decades

Jonathan Ross’s cruel Britannia

“Handcuffed” has revived the nastiest side of reality TV

Gorillaz’s strange, hybrid formula is still where Damon Albarn feels at home

It takes balls to start your record with a five-minute instrumental played on a bamboo flute

Veganism has lost its cool

Big vendors are dropping their plant-based options. I can’t possibly think why

How we respond to medicine shapes how medicine responds to us

Our medical minds are established in our formative years

An invitation to eat curry with 35 law professors. Is this a joke?

The prof said this could provide material

Beer and sandwiches: At the Redhouse in Newcastle

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