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Beer and sandwiches: At the Angel Inn in Durham

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Arsenal fans are not needy! They just want an expensive lunch 

Their vilification as effete elitists is undeserved

The dark side of the Enlightenment

Capitalism is far from the only extractive force in human history

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is porn

The blockbuster reveals more about the psyche of the director than of Brontë

Arcadia is Tom Stoppard at his finest

The latest revival refuses to dumb the famously difficult play down

Syria, from the Ottomans to al-Qaeda

The country is still haunted by a long and fractured past

Chomsky against Foucault against Dworkin – who cares?

Ideas overpower meaning in Sophie Ward’s packed novel

Talking to Jeffrey Epstein

The paedophile’s emails reveal a vile but ordinary abuser

The truth about immigrants and sex crime

Corrosive innuendo about asylum seekers is helping no one

The Epstein files prove the MeToo backlash went too far

We have forgotten the omnipresence of misogyny

In Bicester Village, England is for sale

The outlet is the second most popular attraction for Chinese tourists visiting the UK

Who spies for Russia in parliament?

Reform MPs were conspicuous by their absence at a debate on malicious “Russian influence campaigns”

Will the crises ever go away?

Britain is struggling to maintain its spirit of quiet optimism

Gordon Brown: Police need to interview Andrew

We owe it to survivors of abuse to help bring the guilty to justice

Keir Starmer: “I am going to fight”

After a week of peril, the Prime Minister is determined to fight on

Morgan McSweeney’s political obituary

His failure is symptomatic of a deeper ideological crisis at the heart of Labour

Lord of the Flies is not for children

Jack Thorne has given William Golding’s novel the Adolescence treatment

Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water is startlingly good

Stewart’s first directed feature film weaves a compelling narrative out of fragments of a woman’s past

Defrosting among the terminators of Kyiv

Ukraine may be cold but the mob hotel I’m staying in is not

July 1954: The case for defying American pressure on Sino-British trade