The catastrophe in Gaza
Aid agencies are warning that Gaza faces a famine, which will be entirely manmade.
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Why George Osborne still runs Britain
Letter of the week: The legacy of lasting peace
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The long arm of Reform
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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How Labour learned to love immigration control
Keir Starmer’s warning of “an island of strangers” owes less to Enoch Powell than it does to Robert Putnam.
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My viral interview with Pakistan’s defence minister
Also this week: Trailing Trump in Saudi Arabia, and talking to the truth tellers.
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Andy Street: “We must not allow people to fall in love with Reform”
The former West Midlands mayor on the case for moderate conservatism.
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Keir Starmer can rewrite the history of Brexit
Trump and Putin have handed Britain the chance for a fresh start with Europe.
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British TV will be a victim of the US trade deal
The industry risks becoming collateral damage in Trump’s tariff offensive.
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John Fetterman and the death of American shame
In US public life the line between sanity and insanity has become barely discernible.
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Pope Leo XIV’s centrist papacy
The election of Robert Prevost is a plea for temperance in a turbulent Church.
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Why George Osborne still runs Britain
Austerity was a radical economic experiment – but 15 years on, it has become the new orthodoxy.
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Portrait of an 18th-century It girl
Joshua Reynolds’ beloved painting contains the hidden story of my socialite ancestor, whose life spanned England, France and America.
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Gordon Brown: the moral economist
In a time of brutal inequality, can the former prime minister still imagine a better world?
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Modernity has killed the private life
Society is forgetting why time away from the public gaze matters.
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Mark Twain and the limits of biography
The great American writer witnessed the forging of his nation – but Ron Chernow’s portrait cannot see beyond its…
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The birth trauma taboo
Theo Clarke’s book paints a damning picture of Britain’s failing maternity services. Change cannot come soon enough.
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Misogyny in the metaverse
Advances in technology and artificial intelligence have created a brave new world – and women are hated here, too.
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The potter of porcelain mania
How the sculptor Johann Joachim Kändler made porcelain an object of desire across 18th-century Europe.
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Mission: Impossible 8 – the return of the sexless show-off
The Final Reckoning exists only to serve the ego of cinema’s supposedly great daredevil, Tom Cruise.
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The BBC’s new therapy show left me with a full-body cringe
I demand that no one is ever again allowed to commission a series as poor and as dubious as…
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David Dimbleby’s Invisible Hands charts the ascent of free-market ideology in Britain
The six-part BBC Radio 4 series forensically dissects the dissemination of free-market capitalism throughout the British political system.
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Gardening, grief and memory
A garden tended to by departed loved ones deserves to be celebrated.
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Thought experiment 11: The Harmless Torturer
There is a mismatch in our ideas about the individual’s responsibility to others and the way we behave in…
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The cruelty of politics is clouding my vocabulary
There’s always some new and revolting story coming from America under Trump – sometimes several in a day.
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Why I’m falling for East 17
I hadn’t really wanted to move to Walthamstow – but I’m growing to love it more each day.
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This England: With a couple of kookies…
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Subscriber of the week: Giovanni Vitulli
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Viet Thanh Nguyen Q&A: “My earliest memory? Being taken to school on a Vespa”
The novelist on the writing process and the survival of the human species.
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