Labour’s Farage problem
The Reform leader has showed how easily Labour’s majority could be demolished.
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Divide and Conquer
Letter of the week: The stories we tell
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Educating Bridget
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Pope Francis’s divided house
Like the Second Vatican Council, he proved the Church to be as human as it is divine.
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Launching Britain into the new space age
Also this week: Elon Musk wields the axe in Washington, and Hollywood lands in Bedfordshire.
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Steve Reed: “Reform is a symptom of broken trust”
The Environment Secretary on how Labour can defeat populism and why Defra must no longer be a blocker of…
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Nigel Farage’s mayday alert
As the local elections approach, Reform is after Labour’s voters.
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Farewell to the Lady, a magazine for more genteel times
Also this week: Big Tech’s multiplying court cases, and the sale of the Telegraph limps on.
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The capitulation of the American elite
In the face of Trump’s illiberal policies, the legal profession is not only surrendering, it’s collaborating.
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Labour’s cynical shift on biological sex
The party is attempting to rewrite history.
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Anarchy in the “yookay”
How the new right came to loathe Britain even more than the radical left.
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Trump’s plan for chaos
How the US president’s assault on prosperity is transforming the world.
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Why China is winning
In the struggle with the US for dominance, which superpower’s patriotic determination is stronger?
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Can Reform grow up?
After scandals and infighting, Nigel Farage’s party faces its first big test on 1 May, at England’s local elections.
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The first and last New Journalist
Gay Talese published a candid account of his infidelities in 1980. His marriage survived; his career almost didn’t.
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Who are the white working class?
A deeply reported survey of a much-mythologised slice of Britain reveals a heterogeneous, complex demographic.
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The road that built England
The country’s elusive identity resides not in a National Trust garden, but on the thundering dual carriageway of the…
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Joan Didion without her style
The writer’s posthumous therapy journal is raw and unvarnished – the most direct book she never wrote.
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Joe Dunthorne’s lessons in chemistry
The novelist thought his great-grandfather’s memoir would be a story to be proud of. He found something else.
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From Omar El Akkad to Laura Spinney: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt and Mythica by Emily Hauser.
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The cinema of abortion
On-screen portraits of abortionists are rare. April, which follows a doctor in rural Georgia, is starkly honest – and beautiful.
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I, Jack Wright is a riot of a show
With a great cast and bold writing, Chris Lang’s new murder mystery drama is deliciously watchable.
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How the Titanic sank
The BBC Sounds podcast Titanic: Ship of Dreams captures every detail of the catastrophe.
Only real ale can rival fine wine
And it’s a lot cheaper too.
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Thought experiment 10: The Trolley Problem
The moral dilemma that broke free of academic discourse and became a runaway meme.
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Clothes unmaketh man
Consider my outrage: a landlady refused to serve me. I was sober.
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I loved performing again, but you have to keep a foot in normal life
Our gigs went better than I could have hoped; even the things that went wrong added to the magic.
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Watching football is also watching everything else
From Kenny Dalglish’s hair to the evocative names of players, the game is a carnival of distraction.
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This England: Holy cosplaying cops!
This England. This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole…
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Subscriber of the week: Geoffrey Harper
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Melinda Gates Q&A: “A man with a gun is not as powerful as a girl with a book”
The philanthropist on her mother’s kindness and being a breast-pump pioneer.
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