
Leader: No deal is the worst of all outcomes
It was once Leavers, not Remainers, who insisted that a no-deal Brexit was unthinkable. David Davis, the former Brexit…
ByIt was once Leavers, not Remainers, who insisted that a no-deal Brexit was unthinkable. David Davis, the former Brexit…
ByI consider myself an ardent Remainer but I must take issue with Martin Fletcher’s description of the EU as…
ByConservative MPs can’t decide whether Boris Johnson, who suffered a humiliating defeat in the Commons on 3 September, is…
ByOn its “get ready for Brexit” website, the government advises that, if we leave the EU without a deal,…
ByStructurally, tonally, even visually – with text punctuated by grainy black-and-white photographs – Kathleen Jamie’s new essay collection Surfacing…
ByIt was a time when we chose life. When football was coming home. When a new day was dawning,…
ByIn April 2016, after Boris Johnson referred to Barack Obama as a “part-Kenyan president” with an “ancestral dislike of…
ByThe effect of reading a short story by the American author Deborah Eisenberg is such that soon after finishing…
ByNearly 90 years ago in Fritz Lang’s M, a single balloon snagged in the telephone wires high above Berlin was…
ByClose to the beginning of Ursula Macfarlane’s powerful film about the rise and fall of Harvey Weinstein (2 September,…
ByDid a mass brawl cause Brexit? Or one incident on a boat tip climate change on to its current trajectory?…
ByI certainly know the tone of horticultural anxiety when I hear it. One of my oldest friends – one…
ByIt’s half past three in the afternoon as I write these words. That means, with only brief intervals, I’ve…
ByThe youngest gets his A-level results, and they’re fine, and he’ll be going where he wants to go, and…
ByJeffrey Archer was born in London in 1940. Known for his political career, he was deputy chairman of the…
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