The exploration of Sly Stone’s genius
Sly Lives! presents an unflinching portrait of the artist – and the main quandary of the creative process.
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s everyday dystopia
Never Let Me Go was once dismissed by critics for its “dear-diary” prose, but 20 years later the novelist’s masterwork…
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Inside Labour’s welfare wars
The party is locked in intense moral and economic debates.
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Jack Thorne’s Adolescence is how crime drama should be done
This Netflix series is a veritable pageant of sophisticated anxiety and dread.
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Laila Lalami Q&A: “Power is a dynamic. It doesn’t flow in just one direction”
The essayist and novelist on Spanish history, Aretha Franklin and meeting her heroes
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Subscriber of the week: Geraldine Finn
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In my shopping basket I see a feast of brown
I have become more dependent on the staples of Englishness.
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It’s the Economy, Stupid is a polemic about the perils of capitalism
This show is both a whistlestop tour of modern economics, and Joe Sellman-Leava’s attempt to understand why he’s always broke.
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The NS poem: The Health Check Crapshoot
A new poem by Claudine Toutoungi.
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Pilgrims of a lost Palestine
In Forgotten, writers Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson explore the careless treatment and outright destruction of Palestinians’ most precious memorials…
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The return of America First
From trade wars to peace deals, Donald Trump’s ruthlessly transactional politics treats global crises as opportunities for American gain.
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How the right weaponised the “vibe shift”
What’s brewing in America isn’t a cultural turn – it’s a political catastrophe.
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European leaders still aren’t facing reality on Ukraine
No matter how they spin it, there is no practical alternative to American military power.
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This England: Addressed by the haggis
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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I am content to be (temporarily) alone – bar the nightmares
The truth is, there’s pleasure in solitude.
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Can the British Council be saved?
CEO Scott McDonald on an imperilled institution.
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Daily Mail redundancies are being watched by Fleet Street with horror
Also this week: a conspiracy theorist at the FBI, and Meta’s free-speech wobble.
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Labour’s boulevard of broken promises
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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We lose more than pounds when we substitute weight-loss jabs for exercise
Regular physical activity has many other benefits.
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Ending the welfare trap
Labour must not only make benefits less attractive, but make work more so.
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