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Andy Burnham has less than 24 hours to run in Gorton and Denton

Mayors must declare their candidacy by 5pm Saturday

By Megan Kenyon

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How to eat like a Roman emperor

How to eat like a Roman emperor

Finn McRedmond

International Politics

Mike Johnson’s message to Britain: remain pure and we’ll love you

Will Dunn

What it’s like to be played by Claire Foy

Helen Macdonald

Latest

News, argument, analysis

Ben Walker

Andy Burnham could win Andrew Gwynne’s seat

Rachel Cunliffe

To wed, or not to wed?

The Pygge

“London is safe”: Inside Labour’s attempt to woo Davos

George Eaton

The hurdles in Andy Burnham’s way

Andrew Marr

Robert Jenrick’s category error

John Gray

We are living through regime change

The New Society

Islam is the engine of world history

The religion may have transformed every corner of the globe, but it was also radically changed in the process

By Hussein Omar

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Chess is fiction's favourite metaphor

Chess is fiction’s favourite metaphor

Joanna Kavenna

Robbie Williams didn’t need Britpop

Kate Mossman

Park Chan-wook couldn’t save No Other Choice

David Sexton

Madison Beer is a copy-paste pop star

Biba Kang

The world’s most powerful literary critic is on TikTok

The world’s most powerful literary critic is on TikTok

George Monaghan

What it’s like to be played by Claire Foy

Helen Macdonald

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Europe is back

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Europe is back

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Inside the Labour factions pressuring Starmer to rejoin Europe

By Ailbhe Rea

The turn to Europe is inevitable

By Andrew Marr

We are living through regime change

By John Gray

In Cambridgeshire, a straw bear burns to the ground

By Will Lloyd

World

How Trump backed down over Greenland

In Davos, the US president claims to have reached a “framework of a future deal”.

By Katie Stallard

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Trump looks to invoke the Insurrection Act. What is stopping him?

Trump looks to invoke the Insurrection Act. What is stopping him?

David Allen Green

The special relationship is dead

James Schneider

Europe must break from America

Bruno Maçães

Trump’s threat to Greenland must be a wake-up call for Britain

Zack Polanski

Europe’s reckoning over Greenland has arrived

Europe’s reckoning over Greenland has arrived

Katie Stallard

Is Reza Pahlavi’s Iranian revolution running out of steam?

Politics

Labour’s next rebellion may be over leasehold reform

MPs have warned the government not to water down its manifesto pledge to cap ground rents for leaseholders

By Megan Kenyon

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Is this Andy Burnham's moment?

Is this Andy Burnham’s moment?

Ailbhe Rea

The British right’s Trump problem

George Eaton

Is being a councillor the worst job in England?

International Politics

Should Rachel Reeves sound more like Mark Carney?

Freddie Hayward

Inside Liz Truss’s lunch with Nigel Farage

Inside Liz Truss’s lunch with Nigel Farage

The Pygge

Britain’s housebuilding crisis on my block

Anoosh Chakelian

Podcasts

What happens when an MP defects?

We answer your questions following Robert Jenrick’s defection to Reform.

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Politics podcast

Is this Andy Burnham’s moment?

Make way for the King of the North.

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Politics podcast

The UK must crawl back to Europe

The special relationship is over.

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Student loans have screwed over a generation

Nick Clegg made a deal with … David Cameron.

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Ideas

We are living through regime change

John Gray

The dead dream of the millennium

Alwyn W Turner

When Trotsky took on Keir Starmer

When Trotsky took on Keir Starmer

Ethan Croft

How the far right co-opted the cross

Rowan Williams

What Gillian Rose saw in Auschwitz

Robert Lucas Scott

How not to talk about capitalism

The Weekend Essay

How not to talk about capitalism

Dominik Leusder

Business and Economics

International Politics

Trump is preparing to unleash inflation on his own voters

Will Dunn

The great lie about the British welfare state

Andrew O’Brien

A customs union won’t fix Labour’s growth woes

A customs union won’t fix Labour’s growth woes

David Lawrence

The Budget has pushed Starmer and Reeves closer to the edge

Andrew Marr

Rachel Reeves’ rage-bait Budget

Will Dunn

Black Friday and the curse of crapflation

Black Friday and the curse of crapflation

Will Dunn

Spotlight on Policy

The time has come for a new type of climate coalition

Sadiq Khan and Eduardo Paes

Will Britain ever be healthy enough to work properly?

Harry Clarke-Ezzidio

Revealed: Employment Rights Bill could bring £10bn boost to economy

Revealed: Employment Rights Bill could bring £10bn boost to economy

Harry Clarke-Ezzidio

Joining the dots through predictive prevention

Phin Foster

Spotlight on Policy

Unlike the rest of the UK, Scottish child poverty rates are falling

Rhi Storer

You can't solve a crisis with the same thinking that caused it

You can’t solve a crisis with the same thinking that caused it

Zack Polanski

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