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Can Britain ever rejoin the EU?

First, Remainers must understand what a future UK membership would actually entail.

The strange death of the centre right

In Western democracies conventional conservativism is foundering. How did this once-dominant political force become so diminished?

The anger and hope the earthquake left behind

As the death toll in Syria and Turkey passes 36,000, survivors question whether some deaths could have been prevented.

Nicola Sturgeon is running out of time – and her rivals know it

As the First Minister’s popularity declines, her grip on her party and the country is slipping.

The end of the Brexit taboo

Only the most ideological Leaver – of which there are a diminishing number – would contend that Brexit has done…

Andrew Murray’s Diary: Back to my old Commons beat, recalling the bellowing-booth and lessons from the Iraq War

I am reprising my role as the Morning Star’s parliamentary reporter – and hoping there are no problems with my…

Football remains spectacular, but the trust between clubs and the public is broken

The game’s richest teams have disfigured the economic terrain of the sport – but a reckoning is on the horizon.

How consultancy bleeds Britain dry

In The Big Con Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington reveal how management consultants promise to fix governments but end up…

In my broken state, the very last thing I need is to tour Brighton in search of meds

I was more wreck than human being, but at least I was less of a wreck than some of the…

Munroe Bergdorf’s Q&A: “I would love a government that cares about its people”

The model and activist on Rishi Sunak, fighting for LGBT rights and her desire to have lived during the Eighties.

BBC One’s The Gold is outstandingly enjoyable TV

This madly entertaining drama about the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery doubles as an account of the Thatcherite Eighties.

Britain’s crisis of unbelief

In a nation that binds spiritual and temporal power, will the end of the old metaphysical order threaten the state…

False teeth, smashed ceramics and unused fish knives – I come from a long line of hoarders

As market gardeners, my family were rich in fruit but little else – perhaps that explains the decapitated dolls’ heads…

Pregnant Then Screwed’s Joeli Brearley: “I think motherhood radicalises you”

The activist on newly political mums, the idea of a women’s strike, and why Britain’s broken childcare system could decide…

Michael Bracewell’s anatomy of English nostalgia

In Unfinished Business one of our finest cultural critics returns to fiction with a meditation on memory and national decline.

Florian Zeller’s The Son is a work of crass melodrama

The decorated playwright and director’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning The Father is manipulative and underwritten.

An unmissable view of Vermeer’s secret worlds

This unprecedented gathering of the artist’s works at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam reveals the painter’s mastery, if not his mystery.

Magic Mike’s hollow feminism

This “empowering” franchise about male strippers peddles an offensive, patronising narrative about women and sexuality.

Our Shamima Begum obsession

Her story has been told and retold in countless newspaper articles, three podcasts and three documentaries. Why can’t we look…

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