The Labour vibe shift
After 14 years of Conservative rule, world leaders, MPs, business and the media are preparing for a new political…
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The Great Stink
Letter of the week: Why we must make Putin pay
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Esther McVey’s war on rainbow lanyards and homeless prisoners
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Starmerism is not at war with Blairism
A focus on serving working people is the golden thread that connects Keir Starmer’s Labour and Tony Blair’s.
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Going head-to-head with Lisa Nandy over Gaza
Also this week: sun, solar storms and climate anxiety, and protesting on a surfboard.
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Mehdi Hasan: “We don’t value Palestinian life”
The combative Zeteo CEO and former MSNBC host on the media’s moral failures.
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A whirlwind tour of Washington with David Lammy
Republicans like the “realism” but not the “progressive” part of the shadow foreign secretary’s doctrine.
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Keir Starmer’s real mission: to overhaul how government works
Once in power, Labour’s challenge will be to build a system that functions differently enough for voters to notice.
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The battle for the worst job in America
Donald Trump’s pick for vice-president will be the candidate who can most thoroughly abase themselves before him.
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Joe Biden is deluded on Rafah
America’s policy on Gaza is based on an alternative reality.
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How Take That helped me embrace middle age
Seeing Gary, Howard and Mark perform in Manchester revealed how friendships, freedom and fun evolve through life.
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The Great Stink: Britain’s pollution crisis
How privatisation and the pursuit of profit lead to the devastation of England’s waterways.
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Gaza and the new digital divide
A widening generation gap is polarising online news audiences – and coverage of the Israel-Hamas war has made the…
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Roy Jenkins’ unfinished revolution
What Labour can learn from how the “liberal and radical” reformer changed Britain.
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The strange death of conservatism
Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s first obituary of Tory England was premature – but now, he says, the party is beyond saving.
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The curse of climate brain
Global warming is not only destroying our environment; it is altering the way we think and act – for…
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A bloody American ancestry
Advancing through fear and violence, amassing wealth and power, the Blood dynasty embodied the untamed spirits of a young…
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How hormones rule our lives
From sex to eating, birth to body temperature, our physical selves do what our chemical masters tell us.
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From Hari Kunzru to Eugene Rogan: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger and Cypria by Alex Christofi.
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Hoard is a daringly original British film
Lewisham-born director Luna Carmoon has called her debut, about a young woman in foster care, “this thing that encompasses…
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Bodkin is a very 21st-century media satire
The journalism jokes are the highlight of this comedy thriller, which pokes fun at the clichés of true crime…
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Inside the strange story of the Midwest FurFest attack
Who is to blame for the chemical assault that hospitalised 19 members of the internet’s most derided subculture?
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How apartheid shaped classical music
Four composers reveal the musical legacies of the regime – in South Africa and beyond.
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In praise of Languedoc
It isn’t a lauded wine region – but it is one of France’s best.
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What’s in the Lidl middle aisle: bargains, or rip-offs?
The slightly unhinged discount products of the middle aisle are entertaining – but also part of a very clever…
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Parrot’s pint lost
A salutary tale of petty officiousness and a pub-dwelling tropical bird.
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The drama and delight of chicks leaving the nest
I’m no birdwatcher, but I was glued to the garden, willing on the fledgling great tits like my own…
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This England: Rabbit roundabout
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Subscriber of the week: Katy Gordon
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Craig Foster Q&A: “My theme tune? The sound of a whale’s ear bone”
The Oscar-winning documentary-maker on marine biology, invading isopods, and the regenerative power of nature.
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