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This is how Putin loses the war

In an exclusive interview, Volodymyr Zelensky’s adviser Mykhailo Podolyak lays out how a Ukrainian victory would unfold.

Why the battle for the Union is far from over

The Scottish independence movement has stalled – but the Union won’t be secure until Westminster remakes a decaying constitutional settlement.

How to remake the Union

The path is open to Labour, the founding party of devolution, to offer a reconfigured United Kingdom.

Sleep has always proved elusive, but at least I have nothing to get up for

Some people use the time afforded by insomnia to worry about things, but I prefer a good book and a…

Could I become Christian in a year?

Reading the Bible is tempting me towards belief.

Bernie Sanders: the president who never was

The politician’s new work is a limited and soporific harangue. How did he twice get close to becoming leader of…

Sharon Olds’ Q&A: “I wished I could travel back to take Keats penicillin”

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet on the Obamas, Aretha Franklin and the death of the Amazon.

Sarah Lucas: “I didn’t want to spend my life angry”

The artist on feminism, the importance of humour, and being a Young British Artist at 60.

I just might have been a top tennis player but my teenage body had other ideas

When after two years of lessons I still lost to my brother I gave up – not recognising the impact…

How Joyland was deemed an “un-Islamic” love story

Sadim Sadiq’s film about a married man and a trans woman was censored in Pakistan – but has won acclaim…

The myths of “the north”

Alex Niven’s The North Will Rise Again is a missed chance – a sustained swipe at a government long gone…

Damien Chazelle’s Babylon is a spectacular mess

This take on the dark side of 1930s Hollywood is full of dazzling set pieces – but collapses under their…

Tár is a crafty, cryptic take on art and morality in the online age

Cate Blanchett stars as a master composer caught in a #MeToo scandal in Todd Field’s genre-bending film.

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Why the Tory right wants hush from Truss on tax-cuts

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

The surprising delights of monotonous meals

For an entire university term I lunched on jacket potatoes with beans and cheese, as why change a winning formula?

The criminal justice system is broken, and neither gaffer tape nor the Tories will fix it

The crown courts ended last year with a backlog of 61,737 cases – a figure that “tough on crime” Rishi…

Hannah Barnes: Inside the collapse of the Tavistock gender clinic

The Newsnight journalist on her book Time to Think, and why she had to tell the story of the children…

Letter of the week: Our duty to Afghanistan

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The war within Pink Floyd

How a Shakespearean battle between Dave Gilmour and Roger Waters erupted over art, money and geopolitics.