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How do I know if I want children enough?

Watching my friends get married and buy houses and have babies reminds me I once imagined these things for myself

How the Prince Andrew saga overshadowed Virginia Giuffre’s tragic life

Amid the royal fallout, we should not forget Jeffrey Epstein’s victims

Sucking up to China has failed before

December 1998: Jonathan Mirsky calls on Western leaders to challenge China on human rights

Revolution is in the air

We must look squarely at the world as it is, in all its complexity – from migrant camps to new…

What Victorian home-building did for us

Politicians who want to solve the housing crisis should look to the 19th century

People keep offering me pianos

It is a shame, then, that I play music as if I am missing three fingers

In front of the sound desk, a little off-centre

I find myself in tears at a Self Esteem show – a few shed for her brilliant lyrics, others for…

This England: Black swan event

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

June 1964: The poet and critic Donald Davie reflects on the genius of John Clare

London’s pizza scene is in search of a soul

We are in danger of confusing skill with flair

Wolf Moon and the fight against Franco

Julio Llamazares’ 1985 novel – newly translated in English – is a refusal to forget the brutality of the Spanish…

Chris Kraus’s autofictional crimes

Is the American writer’s new book, The Four Spent the Day Together, a true-crime novel or a description of her…

Wayne Thiebaud’s slices of Americana

The painter’s neon-lit patisseries and pies captured the abundance of the US in the postwar decades

After the Hunt offers debate but no engagement

Luca Guadagnino’s talky Me Too drama sacrifices interest to academic point-scoring

The Importance of Being Hyper-Earnest

Max Webster’s queer reimagining of the Oscar Wilde classic is an explosion of conflicting performances

Tax the old

Britain cannot afford to bribe well-off pensioners any longer. Rachel Reeves must invest in the young

An audience with Austria’s “rebel nuns”

The elderly sisters who defied Church authority are paragons of speaking truth to power

Keir Starmer: the Downing Street terminator

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster

Letter of the week: Who truly believes in Britain?

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Can Mary Barton save Britain’s badgers?

Parliament’s longest-standing protester is fighting to end the culls – but Labour’s Steve Reed is biting back