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In this week’s issue
The Mandelson affair
What the Epstein files reveal about Britain’s power structures
They are inherently radicalising
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Facebook druids herald the spring
They blow incense into my face, hissing the word “commitment”
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Peter Mandelson’s hypnotic presence is gone from politics for good
Also: Keir Starmer’s “Zugzwang” moment, and why books are back
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Defrosting among the terminators of Kyiv
Ukraine may be cold but the mob hotel I’m staying in is not
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Letter of the week: A certain idea of Britain
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The Ice backlash won’t stop Maga
Trump’s partial de-escalation over the operation in Minneapolis was little more than a tactical retreat
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Peter Mandelson is gone, and so is New Labour
Blairism is destined for the “sealed tomb” in which it once buried the hard left
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The Epstein files expose the rot of Mandelson’s Britain
New Labour’s dead-end of pragmatism over everything else – including morality
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How has Donald Trump escaped the Epstein files?
When I met Jeffrey Epstein in 2010, I could see his stink had spread across Manhattan high society
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Pornhub’s harm will never be undone
Access to videos of violent, degrading, absurd sex hasn’t been good for girls or boys
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The Mandelson affair: inside the scandal of a century
Mandelson’s fall from grace reveals a very Labour weakness
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Inside Sudan’s perpetual war
As rival forces fight for control of Sudan, its people sink further into crisis
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Mandelson’s adoration of wealth and power reaches its inevitable conclusion
Peter Mandelson’s career sheds light on his party’s ideological fragility
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Was this French cowboy the first fascist?
The eccentric life of Marquis de Morès, anti-Semitic rabble-rouser
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Rupert Murdoch’s family blood sport
A new exposé reveals how he governed his family, his business and the world, unable to tell them apart
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How Wuthering Heights seduced its readers
Nothing beats the thrills and seductions of Emily Brontë’s novel
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A farewell to autofiction
Rob Doyle uses a proliferation of alter egos to lampoon the autofiction genre
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The decline and fall of the samurai
There was more to the warriors than a readiness to die for honour
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The female painters who redefined the British landscape
Alongside Turner and Constable, female artists contributed to this very British genre
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The Beauty: if good looks could kill
The premise of Ryan Murphy’s programme could only have occurred to someone who’s spent a lot of time staring…
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In Our Time is more cautious without Melvyn Bragg
Misha Glenny keeps himself out of the action
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Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water is startlingly good
Stewart’s first directed feature film weaves a compelling narrative out of fragments of a woman’s past
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America comes for our lunch
Corporate London eats like the American midwest
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Beer and Sandwiches: At the Square and Compass in Dorset
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A missing delivery presents me with a terrible moral quandary
Tracking down the lost package I feel like a spymaster
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The UK relies on foreign medics, but we must take care of home-grown talent
Most overseas recruits come from less developed nations that can ill afford the brain drain
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From the archive: Trade with China
July 1954: The case for defying American pressure on Sino-British trade
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