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All of Us Strangers makes the personal universal

This intensely specific film shows a kind of genius for English humdrum understatement about the most wrenching matters.

50 years of Manon

In this Royal Opera House revival, Kenneth MacMillan’s masterful ballet still has the power to bring audiences to their feet.

The triumph of King Charles

Robert Hardman’s obsequious biography pays court to a monarch who is enjoying his power over a deferential nation.

Herbs and flowers flourish in my hilltop garden, except where I want them

My lack of success growing mint and thyme is embarrassing, but I take solace in the plant world’s mysteries and…

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Radio 4’s Child puts us on the cusp of life

India Rakusen has created a delightful mosaic of trivia about babies and the earliest stages of human life.

This England: Tyne mouth

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

Letter of the week: The value of humanities

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Tories pray for electoral salvation. Will St Boris intercede?

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Why make another Mean Girls?

The musical update of the popular high-school movie is entertaining, but bewildering.

From Windrush to the Post Office, I find a Britain losing its faith in fair play

At the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry I met Mark Kelly, who has lost everything he worked for.

The West’s rivals everywhere are exploiting its vulnerabilities

From Africa to Latin America, competing power blocs are gaining from liberal democracies’ stalled growth and lack of focus.

The era of easy peace is over

With Houthi attacks, war in Gaza and Ukraine, and the return of Trump, the wider West must spend more on…

The Polish Revolution

Timothy Garton Ash’s account of the Solidarity movement shows how Poland has resisted Russian control, and led me to a…

How to reform the House of Lords

Also this week: finding peace in weekly Mass, and what Winston Churchill knew.

From Colin Barrett to Hannah Ritchie: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring Deterring Armageddon by Peter Apps and Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secrets by Clair Wills.

How Israel’s war spread to the Red Sea

Yemen’s Houthis are allies of Iran but not proxies. They believe they are carrying out the will of God.

Donald Trump and the politics of retribution

After his emphatic victory in the Iowa Republican primary, the former president believes he is destined for a second term.…

The Democrats must forge a political centre based on class, not identity

The party urgently needs to reconnect with the needs of ordinary people in conservative and rural parts of the US.

Tory divisions over Rwanda reflect the wider anti-migrant mood across Europe

As far-right parties surge on the continent, Britain’s staunch multiculturalism is starting to look a little lonely.