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July 1977: What is it like to be a tribune of the left?

Beer and sandwiches: At the Maltings Taphouse in Devon

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Rose of Nevada: a hypnotic Cornish Back to the Future

Mark Jenkin’s new film is beautifully made. But does it make any deeper sense?

How the old became invincible

No politician can be honest about spending on social care

What we lose when a language dies

Sophia Smith Galer’s book is a rallying cry against linguistic extinction

Turandot, the last canonical opera

The premiere of Puccini’s Turandot, a century ago, was also the wake for a venerated cultural tradition

AI will dissolve civilisation as we know it

Demis Hassabis has dedicated himself to guiding machine intelligence for the betterment of humanity – but is it listening?

Can AI diagnose your family’s health problems?

Patients are increasingly going to artificial intelligence before the GP surgery

Why young women are so angry

They’re giving up on finance as well as romance

Does anything remain of Starmerism?

Also: Tory-Reform electoral cannibalism, and politics as televised blood sport

Letter of the week: Strangers in a strange world

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Jacob Rees-Mogg bares all

An evening with the former Tory minster

Anglo-Gaullism is doomed

We never realised we needed our own Général. It’s far too late now

Bernie Sanders, America’s unlikely AI oracle

Rarely among progressives, Sanders is grappling with how AI will irrevocably change our societies

St George’s Day can’t contain the new English nationalism

In Ramsgate, officialised folklore tried to bypass the political passions of the age

Keir Starmer is all alone

The clamour is growing: he cannot do the job

The Mandelson affair is stripping this government bare

Its origins lie in Keir Starmer’s inability to control a restless world

Beer and sandwiches: At the Garnet in Norwich

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Expensive salad bowls are stupid

In the City of London wine and cigarettes are out and chickpeas are in

At my 36th Passover, I finally feel like a grown-up

When does one truly become an adult?