Adriana Brownlee: “As soon as you think of records, it gets dangerous”
The mountaineer on climbing the world’s highest peaks.
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Letter of the week: Pay as you learn
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Keir Starmer’s opportunity in crisis
Donald Trump’s tariffs give the Prime Minister the political space to re-examine his government’s fiscal rules and Britain’s relationship with…
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Taking on the manosphere death cult
Also this week: the need for thoughtful optimism, and finding restoration in Paris.
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What is Trump thinking?
The president’s tariff regime is driving the world to the brink of a trade war.
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The slow death of the Royal Mail is a parable of the modern British state
The British economy was most successful when it was run in the national interest.
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David Hockney writ large
A huge retrospective gives the authorised version of this prolific artist’s career.
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The magical thinking behind European unity
The far right will always be an impediment to strategic autonomy.
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Capitalism (Taylor’s Version)
Swift is a self-made billionaire and the most profitable live musician in history. What can her ascendance teach us?
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Ben and I are preparing for our first live gig together in 25 years – and I’m terrified
In our basement studio, we’re surrounded by our own history, our own inspirations.
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Nothing inflames the imagination quite like the Shipping Forecast
Thinkers of all kinds have been drawn to it over the decades, and poets are no exception.
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A little outsourced admin later and I am slightly less poor
After 35 years, it turns out freelancing can pay off.
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The hoax that spawned an age of American conspiracism
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are just the latest populists to weaponise fears of a sinister “deep state”.
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Keir Starmer’s government is becoming a crisis regime
Labour is hemmed in by military and economic enemies – but not every scenario is entirely grim.
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This England: Allow the bearer to pass…
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Sarwar Trumps Swinney
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The problem with landscape paintings
Also this week: my deep dive into the underground worlds of boardgames and vegetarianism.
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Will the nightmare sale of the Telegraph ever end?
Also this week: no laughs in Trump’s White House, and Ofcom fines OnlyFans’ parent company.
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A Northumbrian pilgrimage
A poet’s journey through the north-east reveals our universal desire to belong to a place we call home.
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Ben Miller’s social media satire Austin misses the mark
This new BBC sitcom is no Colin from Accounts.
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