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Rishi Sunak’s inflation promise is absurd – and the electorate will not forgive him

It is a political error to target an aspect of the economy the government cannot control.

By Wolfgang Münchau

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Martin Wolf: “Austerity and Brexit made everything worse”

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Martin Wolf: “Austerity and Brexit made everything worse”

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Book of the Day

Pamela Anderson’s fantasy life

Anna Leszkiewicz

Why Brexit is back

Brexit is slowly killing the Conservative Party

David Gauke

There’s no point pretending we can stop teenagers watching porn

There’s no point pretending we can stop teenagers watching porn

Marie Le Conte

Kate Forbes is the SNP’s best hope

Chris Deerin

Quickfire

How a rogue balloon could scupper US-China relations

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How a rogue balloon could scupper US-China relations

Katie Stallard

My hometown is the Satanic capital of the UK – and no wonder

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My hometown is the Satanic capital of the UK – and no wonder

Benedict Spence

Politics

Is Rishi Sunak too rich to rule?

The Prime Minister, who is worth an estimated £730m, is the first front-line politician to be on the Sunday Times Rich List.

By Zoë Grünewald

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Conservatives are losing confidence in Rishi Sunak

Conservatives are losing confidence in Rishi Sunak

Andrew Marr

Is this the revival of Tory moderates?

Rachel Wearmouth

Commons Confidential

Who will be Keir Starmer’s chief of staff?

Will Dominic Raab be the next cabinet minister to go?

Rachel Wearmouth

Liz Truss is the future of British Conservatism

Liz Truss is the future of British Conservatism

Henry Oliver

What was the point of Brexit? Britons still don’t know

Joe Twyman

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How the Tories lost the Rod Stewart generation

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This is how Putin loses the war

Jonn Elledge

Just repeating “Reform!” won’t magically fix the broken NHS

Sarah Manavis

Your therapist shouldn’t be on TikTok

World

Germany is isolated once more – and no one now trusts Olaf Scholz

For Europe, the German chancellor’s first year in office has been a series of broken promises and fractured relationships.

By Wolfgang Münchau

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Oleksiy Danilov: “Weak people always come up with excuses not to act”

Oleksiy Danilov: “Weak people always come up with excuses not to act”

Bruno Maçães

Ukraine is not a proxy war

Lawrence Freedman

The Putin backlash

Lawrence Freedman

Kenneth Roth on Harvard fellowship controversy: “My biggest concern is for academic freedom”

Alona Ferber

Why Britain is deluded about Germany

Why Britain is deluded about Germany

Ido Vock

China’s economy will rebound. But for how long?

George Magnus

Ideas

Bruno Latour and the philosophy of life

Adam Tooze

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The business-lounge intellectual

William Davies

The detective of world history

The detective of world history

Rory Scothorne

Elon Musk’s useful philosopher

Paris Marx

The Ideas Interview

The new class war

Jonathan Rutherford

The poetic history of David Graeber

The poetic history of David Graeber

Justin EH Smith

Books and Culture

Ghosts of the Cultural Revolution

Tania Branigan’s Red Memory shows how Xi Jinping’s China is erasing the violence and tyranny of Mao’s purges from history.

By Katie Stallard

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Robert Kaplan’s tragic realism

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Robert Kaplan’s tragic realism

John Gray

It’s high time we saw Pamela Anderson as a person, not a punchline

How The Last of Us turns the apocalypse into mindless entertainment

Gavin Jacobson

First Aid Kit: “We realised constant touring was not a good way to live”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

The myth of England’s “fair play” fetish

The myth of England’s “fair play” fetish

Jonathan Liew

Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale is dismal, claustrophobic and sometimes cruel

David Sexton

Podcasts

“Nothing prepares you”: a journey through Ukraine at war - Audio Long Reads

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“Nothing prepares you”: a journey through Ukraine at war – Audio Long Reads

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Rishi Sunak’s first 100 days, with Andrew Marr

Rishi Sunak’s first 100 days, with Andrew Marr

As Israeli-Palestinian clashes intensify, is a third intifada coming?

As Israeli-Palestinian clashes intensify, is a third intifada coming?

Are the Lib Dems winning here?

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Are the Lib Dems winning here?

Business and Economics

What would happen if everyone knew your salary?

Will Dunn

Where did America’s recession go?

Will Dunn

Shell’s profits show where the real money is made in our energy market

Shell’s profits show where the real money is made in our energy market

Emma Haslett

What if inflation falls in the wrong way?

Emma Haslett

Christopher Harborne: the silent donor behind Brexit and Boris Johnson

Will Dunn

How Help to Buy broke the housing market

How Help to Buy broke the housing market

Emma Haslett

Spotlight on Policy

Energy and Climate Change

Why Rishi Sunak is complicit in Shell’s “greenwashed” mega-profits

India Bourke

Cost-of-living Crisis

How universal public services can end the cost-of-living crisis

Christopher Olk, Colleen Schneider and Jason Hickel

The godfather of the electric car: “The UK will have no auto industry without battery manufacturing”

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The godfather of the electric car: “The UK will have no auto industry without battery manufacturing”

Emma Haslett

Cost-of-living Crisis

Employers must stop penalising women for having children

Dan Jarvis

Energy and Climate Change

Meet the renewables installer who is training the next generation

Samir Jeraj

The women locked out of fertility treatment by the BMI scale

The women locked out of fertility treatment by the BMI scale

Emma Haslett

The Long Read

The twilight of the British Union

The twilight of the British Union

If Labour wins the next election it will face nationalist opponents in Scotland and England. Could the UK survive?

By James Hawes

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