Europe’s new age of insecurity
In the era of Trumpian politics, the US’s allies must fortify and regroup: they can no longer rely on…
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Trouble in Toryland
Letter of the week: Treated like royalty
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Scottish nationalism finds a new home in the House of Lairds
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Israel is pushing Palestinians to the edge
With its military focusing on Rafah, Netanyahu’s government has spoken of large numbers of Palestinians being forced to leave…
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Meeting Vladimir Putin
Also this week: The art of the political interview, and what’s next for the Telegraph takeover.
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Layla Moran: “I’m searching for kernels of hope in the rubble”
The Liberal Democrat MP on polarisation and her relatives trapped in Gaza.
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How indecision turned toxic for Labour in Rochdale
Dithering over Azhar Ali’s by-election campaign has reignited the anti-Semitism row and damaged Keir Starmer’s public image.
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No country for old men?
As a Trump vs Biden rematch looms, the US prepares for a second term with an octogenarian in the…
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The unlikely refuge of British supermarkets
As libraries and community centres disappear, retail spaces are becoming the last resort of people seeking connection.
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The prime minister for victims
Britain is a nation beset by trauma, and Keir Starmer’s role will be to assuage it.
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Taylor Swift’s triumphant incoherence
The star doesn’t make much sense, which is why she makes people so angry.
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The Tory party’s theatre of hate
The Conservatives are dissolving into bitter factions. Can anyone hold the party together as it nears defeat?
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Hillbilly energy
Newly announced as Trump’s running mate, JD Vance has become a powerful voice in the new American right.
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Enter the Age of Malthus
The climate crisis, geopolitical disorder, and the rise of the “praetorian regime”.
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Byron’s war on tranquillity
A new biography reveals how the poet’s life of extremes was echoed by the hyperactive irony of his work.
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The making of an American conservative
Rob Henderson’s memoir Troubled paints a bleak picture of poverty in the US. Are liberal “luxury beliefs” to blame?
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Sex in the age of digital desire
The proliferation of online pornography has degraded the way we view our bodies and relationships.
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Edwardians like us
In Little Englanders, Alwyn Turner reveals striking parallels between Britain in decline at the start of the 20th century…
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From Lyndsey Stonebridge to Sophie Elmhirst: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Spent Light by Lara Pawson and Moral AI And How We Get There.
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John Tavener’s sacred music for a secular world
The English composer’s accidental masterpiece The Protecting Veil communicates a deep human longing for the eternal.
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Why The Taste of Things is more than just “food porn”
The movie was derided by French critics as indulgent, with undertones of rancid conservatism. Actually, it’s a love story.
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I was excited about The New Look – but the series is cringe inducing
This Apple TV+ drama following Christian Dior during the rise of the Nazis is full of poor dialogue and…
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Frank Auerbach’s unsettling charcoal heads
These portraits have a haunted quality, the spectres of all the deleted images that went before.
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Evgeny Lebedev’s vanity podcast
The media mogul and lord of the realm dabbles with psychoactive substances in the latest episode of Brave New…
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Antarctica’s penguins may yet be safe from bird flu, but other threats remain
If the birds are lost, it will be due to commercial over-fishing and our failure to take simple steps…
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Water bills rise because we have sold off the very rain that falls on our soil
Private water companies have gorged on debt and neglected infrastructure, leaving Britain unable to deal with either drought or…
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I crave human contact, mainly with someone in Sky’s technical department
With its awful hold music and bot-driven customer service, no one could have predicted the Rise of the Machines…
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In “sniper’s alley” well-being is all about feeling in control
Apparently I should be eating 30 plants a week. It’s a plan I can get behind.
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This England: Send in the artillery
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: Bill Gilby
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Jen Gunter Q&A: “I wanted to be a detective and drive around in a convertible”
The gynaecologist and author on Nancy Drew, abortion rights, and what would be a truly unforgettable episode of Mastermind.
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