The Labour moment
Keir Starmer’s party has embraced the positions that we have long advocated on the economy, foreign policy and globalisation.
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The Lammy Doctrine
Letter of the week: How a nation sees itself
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Sunak’s shrinking campaign: from the door of No 10 to doorsteps in his constituency…
Your weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
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Russia, North Korea and the axis of autocracies
Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un’s dangerous pact makes even China uneasy.
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As anti-Semitism surges, tolerance resurfaces at unexpected moments
Also this week: The enduring glamour of America, and the agony of clichés.
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Torsten Bell: “Social democrats need to become insurgents”
The Labour thinker and candidate on how to save Britain.
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Evangelical Christians’ Trumpian pact
Conservative Christians would use their unlikely champion’s return to office to impose their own regressive values on America.
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Labour’s women problem
Keir Starmer must accept that JK Rowling is right.
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Labour can’t ignore Northern Ireland forever
The place is a thorn in the side of the United Kingdom, but without caution it could turn much…
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The Lammy Doctrine
Labour’s foreign-secretary-in-waiting on why Britain must adapt to the world as it is, not as liberals wish it to…
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The end of Tory England
Labour may refuse to believe the polls, but regime change is coming.
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Jonathan Reynolds: Business and the centre left are natural partners
The shadow business secretary on Labour’s transformed relationship with industry.
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Jeremy Corbyn’s last stand
In Islington North, the veteran agitator is in battle against the party he once led.
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“I’ve done more than anyone else to defeat the far right in Britain”
Nigel Farage calls himself the “Billy Graham” of politics and believes his right English populism can destroy the Conservatives.
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Russia’s great-power complex
Whether acting as an adversary or a partner to the West, the Kremlin has long yearned for recognition and…
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The vexed history of British feminism
A century ago women activists worked together despite their political differences. Can they do so again?
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Why we get the wrong leaders
History reveals what drives the ambitions of would-be Caesars – and how we can counter them.
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Taylor Swift’s Eras tour conquers London
At Wembley Stadium, the pop star presented a kaleidoscopic, whiplash-inducing spectacle that passed by in a blur.
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The Bikeriders looks cool – but feels pointless
Jeff Nichols’s study of Sixties biker gang culture is full of beauty, glamour and Austin Butler in a leather…
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Douglas Is Cancelled: finally, a funny cancel culture comedy
Steven Moffat’s delicious satire is unafraid to take aim at youthful snowflakes and puritans.
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Is this election beyond satire?
With the Tories writing their own punchlines, the jokes in Michael Spicer: No Room are all too plausible.
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The great wine climate-change challenge
As the planet warms this century, so wine-production regions and qualities will evolve with it.
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Down and Out: the Movie – in cinemas not quite yet
A film project based on these columns could change my life. Or not…
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Welcome to the realm of the thought experiment
What do a hurtling trolley, a shallow pond and a famous violinist all have in common?
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England are rubbish again, but I make my own Euros entertainment
We are paying for building our players up too much. God, it is so depressing.
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This England: Rice to see you
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: Damian Madden
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Cat Bohannon Q&A: “We can actually make the world a bit better”
The academic and author on Jaws, Artemisia Gentileschi, and the fertility culture wars.
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