A world on fire
The climate crisis is an existential threat. Yet as catastrophe looms, politicians remain inert.
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How Saudi Arabia is buying the world
Letter of the week: Uber-class conflict
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Caught red handed
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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“Security”: the inside story of Labour’s new buzzword
Keir Starmer’s party believes it has found a term that speaks positively to all parts of the political spectrum.
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Why MPs are fleeing Westminster
Also this week: Rage at Wimbledon and Tory snobbery over “Mickey Mouse” degrees.
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David Nutt: “It’s the biggest breakthrough in mental health for 50 years”
The psychiatrist David Nutt on psychedelic drugs as a treatment for depression.
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Keir Starmer’s most dangerous months now lie ahead
The Labour leader faces a tension between economic orthodoxy and the promise of change.
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The Huw Edwards crisis has revealed the BBC’s editorial blind spot
If the corporation is to survive, it needs a robust policy for covering celebrity scandals.
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How Dele Alli exposed the trauma that accompanies success in elite sport
We are increasingly discovering the mental cost of the pressure the sports industry places on its stars.
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How Saudi Arabia is buying the world
As the kingdom’s model of capitalism without democracy thrives, the prospect of a Saudi century has consequences for us…
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Inside the assassination bureau
The 1922 Committee is adept at removing prime ministers. How long before its head prefect pays Rishi Sunak a…
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Summer at the end of the world
The world is close to collapse. But can our love of summer save it?
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The mysteries of late style
Christopher Neve’s study of great painters reveals the risks and rewards of creating art at the end of life.
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A world built on trash
Oliver Franklin-Wallis’s Wasteland shows how our rubbish creates an environmental and human catastrophe.
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The self-creation myth
In the absence of God, we have crafted our selves into brands and deities.
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From Ferdinand Mount to Isabel Waidner: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Crisis Actor by Declan Ryan and Women We Buried, Women We Burned by Rachel Louise Snyder.
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Swifts, the universe and everything
Mark Cocker’s ode to a remarkable species makes a powerful case for the value of awe in a time…
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Joyce Carol Oates, online and off
The novelist reflects on Twitter, autofiction and our lack of a “sense of history”.
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The friendlier, softer University Challenge
As host, Amol Rajan takes a very different approach to Jeremy Paxman – he is more encouraging, even enthusiastic.
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Oppenheimer’s tormented soul
In this perspective-shifting biopic, Christopher Nolan frames the father of the atom bomb as a tortured Prometheus.
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The Sixth Commandment is a delicate dissection of human frailty
This unusually sensitive true crime drama features masterful performances from Timothy Spall, Anne Reid and Éanna Hardwicke.
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What happens when women’s pain is dismissed
The Retrievals, a new podcast from Serial, tells the disturbing story of widespread patients’ suffering at the hands of…
Lindi Ngwenya: “Women football agents are as cut-throat as the men”
The trailblazing agent is dedicated to nurturing talent from across the world – and supporting her rising stars in…
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My new smart meter offers more drama than anything on TV
I may now be too terrified to boil the kettle or use the toaster, oven or grill, but reader,…
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Subscriber of the week: Maxine Rhodes
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This England: The silence of the horns
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Jess de Boer’s Q&A: “Our bees are tough beasties to work with”
The farmer on the Kenyan political activist Wangari Maathai, SAS Rogue Heroes and why we need ego-less politicians.
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