We have a new album out and are determined that ageing won’t stop us seizing the day
Forwards we go, embracing the new. Although, I’m a bit worried my doctor is soon going to tell me I…
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How to survive a nuclear holocaust
A luxury hotel protects the affluent in Sven Holm’s Termush, a rediscovered 1967 dystopia that sheds light on our own…
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The cult of David Keenan
How the Scottish author drew on music, drugs and violence to lead a new working-class avant-garde
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Stephen William’s Chevalier is a wasted opportunity
This biopic of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier, the first black European composer, is less interested in the past than in converting…
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Elton John is saying goodbye, for one more time
He can no longer hit the high notes and stayed mostly seated at the piano but, even at the age…
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When Justin Welby met John Cleese
In BBC Radio 4’s Archbishop Interviews, the unlikely pair talk about faith, forgiveness, cancel culture – and whether Jesus is…
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The NS Poem: let the lilac in
A new poem by Michael Pedersen.
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If the Tories are the party for hard-working people, why are they so spectacularly lazy?
For the past 13 years, Britain has been run by people who fundamentally can’t be bothered.
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A life in books and why prizes matter
Also this week: the art of rejecting authors and how all the best stories are true.
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A rising backlash against green policies is energising Europe’s far right
The spectacular blooming, then rapid wilting, of Germany’s Greens is a warning for progressives everywhere.
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Rural Oxfordshire proves a hostile environment for Boris and Carrie Johnson
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: The health challenge
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How Succession made fools of us all
The brutal drama told us who the ultra-rich were again and again. We chose not to listen.
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The rise of Mavis man and woman
Meet “Mavis”: the Middle-Aged, Volatile, Insurgent voters reshaping Britain’s politics. Who are they and what do they want for themselves…
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This England: Pet hates
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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The age of greedflation
How corporate profiteering is making us poorer.
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Deborah Levy’s double lives
At the heart of her new novel August Blue is the question: where does one self begin and another end?
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Shane Meadows’ The Gallows Pole has plenty of vomiting and swearing – but very little drama
The 18th-century fable about coining gangs, adapted from Benjamin Myers’ novel, is relentless and self-indulgent.
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How germs shape history
Jonathan Kennedy’s Pathogenesis reveals how diseases have built and broken empires and economies.
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