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Why Iran is collapsing

Peace is the least likely future

An invitation to eat curry with 35 law professors. Is this a joke?

The prof said this could provide material

Sound of Falling is an intricate ghost story about trauma across time

In this extraordinary film, four girls confront death through the decades

The very British brutality of Kind Hearts and Coronets

The 1949 inspiration for How to Make a Killing remains a tantalising fantasy of class war

How we respond to medicine shapes how medicine responds to us

Our medical minds are established in our formative years

Michael Pollan’s hunt for consciousness

We have it. Plants have it. Machines may soon have it. Why do they all need one?

What the war in Iran means for China and Russia

China’s leadership will not welcome the prospect of a global oil shock

In search of Welsh nationalism

Nobody else can sing like this

Political Islam won’t die with the ayatollah

Those willing Iran’s collapse miss the contemporary genius of its founding ideology

The breaking of nation-states

Utopian visions of an internationalist future ring hollow in dystopian times

October 1997: How will we remember her?

Jonathan Ross’s cruel Britannia

“Handcuffed” has revived the nastiest side of reality TV

Beer and sandwiches: At the Redhouse in Newcastle

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Broken Glass review: Jordan Fein’s slick directing saves Arthur Miller’s difficult play

A moving revival at the Young Vic emphasises the paralysing feeling of watching horror unfold abroad

We cannot afford another failed government

After Gorton and Denton it is time for our leaders to lead

Who is Keir Starmer without Morgan McSweeney?

On Iran and on Europe, he is beginning to show us

Britain has an America problem

Our old ally has grown unreliable. We must lessen our dependence

Rachel Reeves is pretending everything is absolutely fine

This Spring Statement didn’t take account of an inconvenient event: the outbreak of war

America and Israel might be about to break up

Donald Trump has unleashed forces he’s no longer interested in controlling

Gisèle Pelicot is not your hero

In her new memoir, Pelicot rejects the pedestal she has been put on