Magazine

ITV’s Cary Grant drama: chutzpah, desperation or total insanity?

This cheesy series starring Jason Isaacs fails to capture the glamour of Grant and 1960s Hollywood.

The return of the “longest hatred”

Across the world anti-Semitism is surging, and Jewish people are once again living in fear.

The flawed logic of progressives’ support for Islamist movements

Western liberals insist on universal human rights – but overlook the brutal rejection of these values by groups they champion.

This England: Cold press

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

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The NS Poem: Hoops

A new poem by Erica McApline.

Emmanuel Macron does not understand France

A leading French thinker on the forces of a new movement that is neither left nor right.

JFK and the myth of the great martyr-saviour

How the assassination of President Kennedy began the age of American conspiracy.

The Booker Prize is becoming irrelevant

The judging panel hasn’t picked an exciting winner in years because there simply hasn’t been one.

The lost art of the landline call

Also this week: the ghost of Princess Di, and the end of the Caramac bar.

What’s printed on Cameron’s ministerial briefs?

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Letter of the week: Peerless foreign secretaries

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Keir Starmer needs a coherent plan for immigration

The public anxiety about borders is real, and it will still exist under a Labour government.

The West’s dominance is a dangerous delusion

Hubris and ignorance might prove decisive in its proxy wars in Ukraine and Israel, and in its economic contest with…

A blunderer in high office

The Covid Inquiry has revealed that Boris Johnson treated Covid with insouciance, even after its lethal potential was known.

The everyday economists guiding Rachel Reeves

The shadow chancellor’s history of women economists raises profound questions about the future of work.

Bill Gates is bad for humanity

By “maximising” lives, the billionaire philanthropist is making ours worse.

From Barbra Streisand to Michael Mann: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring Peter Cowie’s biography of Ingmar Bergman and Stuffed by Pen Vogler.

Sophie Chandauka’s Q&A: “Eminem’s ‘Lose Yourself’ gets me in the zone”

The entrepreneur on our failure to regulate AI, the West Wing and dancing with her father to Abba.

If you watch football with me, you need to respect my rules

Watching a game is a private pleasure, I don’t want to listen to any banal observations – I have enough…