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I am plagued by illness – and my medicine of choice is Columbo

Being poorly these days involves actual discomfort. I would toss and turn if I could – but even that is…

If only I still had the desk my father made me, my magnum opus would be written by now

I let that unwieldy piece of Douglas fir go as a teenager in a house move – not grasping then…

Dacher Keltner Q&A: “I’m not wired for happiness”

The Berkeley psychologist on growing up in Laurel Canyon in the Sixties and why you should do your homework.

Pamela Anderson’s fantasy life

In her memoir Love, Pamela the model and actress reveals that despite the trauma and abuse she still sees her…

In Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, sexual assault survivors refuse silence

In this Mennonite #MeToo drama, the victims of male violence must choose between faith and their desire for justice.

Victory City: Salman Rushdie’s story factory

Rushdie’s new novel, completed before his attack, is a fable that displays his overweening faith in narrative.

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Joan Bakewell’s Diary: living with cancer, and the age of the grandparent

Medical progress is making us live longer – and grannies like me are being turned to for free childcare.

Letter of the week: Why Germany follows

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Who will be Keir Starmer’s chief of staff?

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Rishi Sunak’s inflation promise is absurd – and the electorate will not forgive him

It is a political error to target an aspect of the economy the government cannot control.

The war in Ukraine will go on for years – and so will its consequences for Britain

We need to change our thinking: this may become an unresolved global conflict of a kind we haven’t seen before.

From Cariad Lloyd to Ayòbámi Adébáyò: new titles reviewed in short

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The hapless Mr Sunak

What the UK requires is a prime minister who can lead and inspire; what it has is a vacuous management…

The end of the housing delusion

Britain is finally realising that its obsession with home ownership is built on a false promise. Is it time to…

How the Tories lost the Rod Stewart generation

The musician’s on-air rant has given voters permission to acknowledge all the ways the state is falling apart around them.

This England: Dad dancing

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

The UK’s rubbish-dump mafia

Radio 4’s Buried tells the story of “the astonishing crime you likely haven’t heard of”.

The myth of England’s “fair play” fetish

In sport and politics, the English boast that they always play by the rules – but history tells a different…

Ghosts of the Cultural Revolution

Tania Branigan’s Red Memory shows how Xi Jinping’s China is erasing the violence and tyranny of Mao’s purges from history.