Magazine

How motherhood was weaponised

Is child-rearing political or deeply personal? Helen Charman’s new history reckons with the tension between mother and state.

Vladimir Putin’s enemy within

The president’s betrayal of his conscript army is creating a generation ready to sow chaos in Russia.

Zandra Rhodes: Q&A: “We need to fill our world with more colour”

The fashion designer on exploring India in the 1980s, needing more time, and the mysterious death of her hydrangeas.

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I went to face down rioters but was confronted by my own fame instead

In countering the fash I felt the years roll away.

PJ Harvey’s songs of England

Across her varied discography, the singer-songwriter conjures images of hyper-local folk tales and white Dorset cliffs.

The mass psychogenic illness that started with the cheerleaders

The investigative series Hysterical provides a compelling listen about the mind, the body and girlhood in small-town America.

Brian May’s educational masterpiece

The rock star’s plea to save the badgers is strangely captivating.

Widow Clicquot review: a sickly sweet champagne story

This is just the latest in a succession of self-congratulatory, syrupy brand movies.

From Andrea di Robilant to Simon Morrison: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring Turning to Stone by Marcia Bjornerud and True Love by Paddy Crewe.

Violence against women and girls is a deeper problem than politicians realise

All parents worry about their children from time to time, but now it feels different.

How we broke the Huw Edwards story

Also this week: front-page thugs and swinging elections.

Letter of the week: Tolerance prevails 

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The Democratic opportunity

It is not enough for Kamala Harris to reaffirm what she is against. She must also set out a vision…

In August, the city shuts down – and I find myself following suit

Who knew there were so many things that could go wrong when you pass 60?

The tension between patients’ rights and public safety

The report into the case of Valdo Calocane may impact the government’s commitment to “modernise” the Mental Health Act.

This England: Sticking around

This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…

Why we must empower Ukraine to repel Russia

The Ukrainian army is one of the best guarantors we have against future Russian aggression.

The rise of cultural Christianity

Why religion is thriving in a non-believing age.

Inside the court of Adolf Hitler

Richard J Evans’s group biography of the Third Reich’s enforcers provides a revelatory account of the Nazi mind.