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Rishi Sunak is moving at speed – but can he outpace the spectre of Boris Johnson?

This spring’s prime ministerial activity has a frantic velocity we haven’t really seen since the days of New Labour.

By Andrew Marr

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Rachel and Ellie Reeves: “We were constantly underestimated as state-school girls”

Preparing for Power

Rachel and Ellie Reeves: “We were constantly underestimated as state-school girls”

Rachel Wearmouth

This immigration bill isn’t just illegal – it’s dangerous

David Gauke

Why Brexit is back

We have lost Russell Brand

Finn McRedmond

Dom: The Play is nowhere near as clever as it thinks it is

Dom: The Play is nowhere near as clever as it thinks it is

John Maier

We are all spending too much time online

Sarah Manavis

Quickfire

In defence of Gary Lineker

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In defence of Gary Lineker

Jonn Elledge

Gary Lineker's pre-emptive strike at BBC head Tim Davie

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Gary Lineker’s pre-emptive strike at BBC head Tim Davie

The Chatterer

Politics

Preparing for Power

Wes Streeting: “NHS privatisation could not be further from my aims”

The shadow health secretary on the Labour left, trans rights and the case against outsourcing health services.

By Rachel Wearmouth

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Will the SNP leadership candidates ever talk about anything other than independence?

Will the SNP leadership candidates ever talk about anything other than independence?

Chris Deerin

SNP leadership candidates need to abandon the independence delusion

Chris Deerin

Rishi Sunak can’t win his fight on the small boats bill

The Brexiteers know they’re losing

David Gauke

Colum Eastwood: “We're on the road to a united Ireland – and that's going to be unstoppable”

Northern Ireland

Colum Eastwood: “We’re on the road to a united Ireland – and that’s going to be unstoppable”

Freddie Hayward

Can Simon Case survive the Lockdown Files?

Rachel Wearmouth

From Our Writers

Anoosh Chakelian

Migrant mathematics: the real calculation behind Sunak’s refugee crackdown

Jonn Elledge

The Lockdown Files only confirm every suspicion we had about the pandemic government

Lamorna Ash

Everything my brother taught me about life

Martin Fletcher

Rishi Sunak needs to learn from Keir Starmer’s ruthlessness

World

Xi Jinping lashes out at the US

China’s leadership took aim at America in an uncharacteristically direct attack during Beijing’s annual parliamentary session.

By Katie Stallard

Photo of Xi Jinping lashes out at the US

Who is poisoning schoolgirls in Iran?

Who is poisoning schoolgirls in Iran?

Megan Gibson

How long will the war in Ukraine go on for?

Lawrence Freedman

Emmanuel Macron is right to want to return African art to Africa

Ido Vock

Why Larry Summers is moving left with age

Harry Lambert

If the EU could speak, what would it say?

If the EU could speak, what would it say?

Will Lloyd

Diplomatic encounters between the US and Russia of the Cold War kind

Katie Stallard

Ideas

The detective of world history

Rory Scothorne

Elon Musk’s useful philosopher

Paris Marx

Britain’s crisis of unbelief

The Weekend Essay

Britain’s crisis of unbelief

Madoc Cairns

The Ideas Interview

The new class war

Jonathan Rutherford

The Weekend Essay

Arno J Mayer’s 20th century

Enzo Traverso

Gramsci in Florida

The Weekend Essay

Gramsci in Florida

Alberto Toscano

Books and Culture

Adam Gopnik’s pursuit of the perfect sentence

The New Yorker journalist’s latest book, The Real Work, sheds light on a career spent obsessively attempting to master the…

Photo of Adam Gopnik’s pursuit of the perfect sentence

How The Fabelmans, a box-office bomb in the US, became an instant classic in France

How The Fabelmans, a box-office bomb in the US, became an instant classic in France

David Sexton

Book of the Day

The sex lives of medieval women

The uncomfortable truths of Hag feminism

Ellen Pasternack

Can’t Glastonbury do better than its dull, white, male headliners?

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Nigel Biggar’s whitewashing of empire

Nigel Biggar’s whitewashing of empire

Tomiwa Owolade

Lukas Dhont’s Close explores the abrupt end of boyhood

David Sexton

Podcasts

French strikes: will pension reform undo Emmanuel Macron?

French strikes: will pension reform undo Emmanuel Macron?

Britain’s childcare crisis, with Stella Creasy

Britain’s childcare crisis, with Stella Creasy

Could childcare win Labour the next election?

Could childcare win Labour the next election?

How China lost Europe – with Andrew Small

How China lost Europe – with Andrew Small

Business and Economics

What would happen if everyone knew your salary?

Will Dunn

Where did America’s recession go?

Will Dunn

The case for a four-day working week has never been stronger

The case for a four-day working week has never been stronger

Will Dunn

How Help to Buy broke the housing market

Emma Haslett

Britain’s GDP figures are a fudge that hides the true state of our economy

Will Dunn

Is Brexit to blame for the UK’s tomato shortage?

Is Brexit to blame for the UK’s tomato shortage?

Emma Haslett

Spotlight on Policy

Children’s mental health services are a postcode lottery

Rachel de Souza

Energy and Climate Change

Ireland’s “storm chasers” show how renewables can tackle fuel poverty

India Bourke

Care is a Gen Z issue

Care is a Gen Z issue

Nadia Whittome

Public Sector Tech

NHS turns to AI to solve its “missed appointments” problem

Sophia Waterfield

Regional Development

Why communities are vital to tackling the multiple crises we face

Caroline Lucas

The NHS workforce crisis could be solved by reforming medical training

The NHS workforce crisis could be solved by reforming medical training

James Hadlow and Chris Farmer

The Long Read

The strange death of the centre right

International Politics

The strange death of the centre right

In Western democracies conventional conservativism is foundering. How did this once-dominant political force become so diminished?

By Jeremy Cliffe

Magazine

The Mission

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The Mission

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Keir Starmer: This is what I believe

By Keir Starmer

Why Kate Forbes just won’t quit

By Chris Deerin

How Bari Weiss broke the media

By Harry Lambert

ChatGPT and the death of the author

By Saffron Huang

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