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The secrets of frost

Frost doesn’t merely transform our surroundings – it alters the kind of attention we pay to the world.

My reckoning with charismatic Christianity

There is an emptiness that the Church says only God can fill. But is He there?

This Christmas, it is hard to watch as our ancestral lands fragment

Israelis, Palestinians, Ukrainians and Armenians around the world have had to witness horrifying events from afar.

The NS Poem: Sabotage

A new poem by Rebecca Farmer.

Lexicon of loss

The history of the elegy reveals how the poetry of grief has the power to trouble, console and unite.

Israelis and Palestinians have been taken back to the traumas of 1948

Reporting from the front line in Gaza, I have seen the destruction wrought on all sides by this long conflict.

Amid multiple crises, EU leaders cling to a misplaced optimism

Economic turmoil is on the horizon – the scariest of all outcomes for Europe would be a Trump victory.

Across Europe, far-right parties are rising

As the continent undergoes a rightwards shift, the liberal dream of open borders is dying.

Robert Jenrick furthers his own migration to the upper Tory ranks

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Letter of the week: The Jewish left will continue

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Britain deserves better in 2024

A Labour government would change the social atmosphere for the better and offer the hope of a new start.

Writing for children is hard, and they need good books more than ever

Children are ravenously hungry for ideas. We writers have a duty to provide them.

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Hana Videen: “It’s a pretty silly idea that there’s a pure English”

The author on the evolution of language.

The hypocrisy of Rishi’s Right

Also this week: the power of the Nativity, and why books are like batteries.

The visions of Werner Herzog

In creating wild and strange new worlds, the German film-maker reveals the truth of our own.

What it means to be German

Frank Trentmann’s history reveals how modern Germany found a new moral purpose after the horrors of Nazism.

Inside the erotic mind

Psychoanalyst Darian Leader’s study of the motivations behind sex and desire is irredeemably bonkers.

Joseph Roth’s lessons for Putin’s Russia

A century ago The Radetzky March captured the break-up of Austria-Hungary. Could it also predict the fall of Vladimir Putin’s…

Kate Forbes: The rooted nomad

Will Kate Forbes ultimately be forced to choose between politics and God?