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A lethal pandemic was considered the most serious security risk to the UK. But nothing was done.
Political deadlock in Kabul, the onset of coronavirus, and a resurgent Taliban – Afghanistan’s future looks bleaker than ever.
The notoriously high prison population in the US is starting to decline – so why is the number of jailed women rising?
The era of peak globalisation is over. For those of us not on the front line, clearing the mind and thinking how to live in an altered world is the task at hand.
I am the result of the movement of bodies on ships. Sails, winches, shackles and cane fields. I am a song of sugar.
The visionary English novelist’s dystopian imagination, defined by cataclysmic events, quarantines and technological isolation, has never felt so prescient.
Hilary Mantel, Rowan Williams, Elif Shafak, Michael Morpurgo and more on the cultural artefacts and pursuits that bring them solace in dark times.
Under lockdown, the City of Light has been thrown into terrible darkness.
The former human rights lawyer aspires to unite not only the troubled Labour Party but the country. But who is he? And what does he really want?
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, the global order was unravelling, but now the crisis provides a historic opportunity.
