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John Curtice on how the Tories are “stuffed”

Britain’s TV polling icon on spats with Labour, the UK reversing Brexit, and why the Union is “in trouble”.

By Anoosh Chakelian

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Going native

The Weekend Essay

Going native

Oliver Eagleton

The Weekend Report

Once upon a time in Wakefield

Harry Lambert

Jeremy Hunt’s economic optimism will collide with voters’ realities

Quickfire

Comment and analysis from our writers

Rachel Wearmouth

The cracks in Keir Starmer’s Labour Party

Jonn Elledge

Why don’t we realise how screwed up the UK really is?

Marie Le Conte

Does Boris Johnson think he’s a good person?

Marc Burrows

Top Gear is finished

Ido Vock

Emmanuel Macron is running out of options

Katie Stallard

TikTok’s CEO testified before the US Congress. It did not go well

Hannah Rose Woods

A childlike wonder at the world’s everyday beauty is best left to grown-ups

Politics

Will the SNP be swept away by Scottish Labour?

There is an increasing belief across Scottish politics that a nationalist collapse may come surprisingly quickly.

By Chris Deerin

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Boris Johnson can roar, but Rishi Sunak has no reason to fear him

Boris Johnson can roar, but Rishi Sunak has no reason to fear him

Andrew Marr

The Politics Interview

Kim Leadbeater is championing a kinder, healthier politics

Zoë Grünewald

Rishi Sunak’s “epoch-defining” defence strategy needs to be more than a label

Commons Confidential

Greying MPs and ministers hit the pension jackpot following Jeremy Hunt’s Budget

Kevin Maguire

Suella Braverman has become the Conservatives’ biggest liability

Suella Braverman has become the Conservatives’ biggest liability

Rachel Cunliffe

Labour should welcome Jeremy Hunt’s political tribute act

Andrew Marr

From Our Writers

Rachel Cunliffe

Boris Johnson made cheese and wine a police matter. There’s no point him complaining now

Jonn Elledge

However the housing crisis ends, we will all lose

Wolfgang Münchau

Like zombies, eurozone states are lurching towards their next financial emergency

Sarah Manavis

The death of workplace perks

World

Greece is becoming an illiberal democracy

The government’s sinister framing of an attack on me is part of a climate of creeping authoritarianism.

By Yanis Varoufakis

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Why the Dutch are revolting

Why the Dutch are revolting

Senay Boztas

The US is readying itself for another moral crusade, this time against China

Katie Stallard

After Iraq: the great unravelling

Peter Ricketts

Christoph Heusgen: “We have to reach out beyond the West”

Jeremy Cliffe

The diplomatic battle for Taiwan

The diplomatic battle for Taiwan

Katie Stallard

Russia and the new language of war

Lawrence Freedman

Ideas

The Weekend Essay

Gramsci in Florida

Alberto Toscano

Why universities are making us stupid

Adrian Pabst

How to kill a country

How to kill a country

Noah Kulwin

The Weekend Essay

Multi-Dimensional Man

Oliver Eagleton

Britain’s far-right contagion

Richard Seymour

The Washington consensus is dead

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The Washington consensus is dead

Angela Nagle

Books and Culture

Fifty years after Picasso’s death, we still struggle with the figure of the monstrous genius

The Musée Picasso Paris’s collaboration with Paul Smith attempts to reframe the great artist. Plus: another backlash for the BBC.

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Victoria Bateman: “I use my naked body to try and subvert things”

Victoria Bateman: “I use my naked body to try and subvert things”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Book of the Day

The feminist case against progress

The history of the American South is as contested as ever

Robert Colls

The Culture Interview

Jeanette Winterson wants more life

Lamorna Ash

The rise of Mia Goth mania

The rise of Mia Goth mania

Ryan Gilbey

Radio & Podcasts

Tony Robinson turns to trivia

Rachel Cunliffe

Podcasts

Is the era of Boris and Brexit over?

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Is the era of Boris and Brexit over?

Best friends forever? What we learned from Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin’s meeting in Moscow

Best friends forever? What we learned from Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin’s meeting in Moscow

Childcare gets top billing in the Budget, but will it work?

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Childcare gets top billing in the Budget, but will it work?

Will the Iranian protesters succeed? With Dina Nayeri

Will the Iranian protesters succeed? With Dina Nayeri

Business and Economics

What would happen if everyone knew your salary?

Will Dunn

Silicon Valley Bank unmasks the hypocrisy of libertarian tech bros

Emma Haslett

Why recessions make the rich richer

Why recessions make the rich richer

Will Dunn

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?

Emma Haslett

Who killed Silicon Valley Bank?

Who killed Silicon Valley Bank?

Will Dunn

Spotlight on Policy

Cost-of-living Crisis

Right or left? How we solve the cost-of-living crisis

Jonny Ball

Regional Development

The Policy Ask with Charlotte Alldritt: “There can be no going back on childcare reform”

Spotlight

Small businesses urged to improve cybersecurity

Small businesses urged to improve cybersecurity

Samir Jeraj

Energy and Climate Change

Why market reform, not freezing bills, is the answer to energy security

Chris Hayes

Regional Development

How Wales could save the world

Alona Ferber

"It's not only bees that will suffer": why lifting the neonicotinoid ban is bad for business

Energy and Climate Change

“It’s not only bees that will suffer”: why lifting the neonicotinoid ban is bad for business

India Bourke

The Long Read

The parent trap: how Britain became a very, very expensive place to raise a child

The Weekend Report

The parent trap: how Britain became a very, very expensive place to raise a child

Money alone won’t fix the childcare crisis. Rethinking work and motherhood might.

By Sophie McBain

Magazine

Banks on the brink

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Fear grips the markets

By Will Dunn

The parent trap: how Britain became a very, very expensive place to raise a child

By Sophie McBain

Dmytro Kuleba: “Russian victory will ruin everything the West stands for”

By Bruno Maçães

The Washington consensus is dead

By Angela Nagle

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